eelnoraa
Contributor
I think overprice or not is quite relative. For an open water recreational diver, a canister light is probably overprice. DRIS1000 can do a lot for a fraction of the cost.
However, consider tech divers or cave divers. They spend time planning and training a exploration dive, spent hundreds of dollars to fill their tanks, spent thousands on other gears, spent more money to drag all their gears to the site. If you were at that situation, will you get into water with a $100 eBay light that claims to be 4000LM and 10hr runtime on a few 18650 batteries, or you will pick something from LM or Halcyon, which are proven working in the most severe condition. The truth is that as much as we feel a canister light is expansive, in the grant scheme of this kind of diving, they are just not that expansive.
However, consider tech divers or cave divers. They spend time planning and training a exploration dive, spent hundreds of dollars to fill their tanks, spent thousands on other gears, spent more money to drag all their gears to the site. If you were at that situation, will you get into water with a $100 eBay light that claims to be 4000LM and 10hr runtime on a few 18650 batteries, or you will pick something from LM or Halcyon, which are proven working in the most severe condition. The truth is that as much as we feel a canister light is expansive, in the grant scheme of this kind of diving, they are just not that expansive.