…..But is it possible Petzl have become complacent? A little lazy?We were looking for a really rugged head torch (2 actually) - the Nao RL is decidedly NOT - and the Swift RL, although much better, isn’t either. Both are excellent designs, but there is no armour, no figure at all for dust ingress, and a respectable, but not impressive water resistance.If you want those things you have to look at the more expensive end of the range. Up on £200 or more.Other companies are offering very powerful alternatives (1500 - 2000 lumens), armoured, flexible, fully water and dust proof (ip68), with fully adjustable beams (narrow to wide) and highly efficient versions of Reactive lighting technology for much, much less than Petzl’s offerings.I am referring to Led Lenser products, and specifically the HF8R core and Signature models, but they aren’t the only alternatives.If Petzl isn’t very careful it will fall fatally behind like Canon and Nikon have in photography, and for the same reasons.At the moment Petzl is protected by two things that can vanish in a puff of smoke: Brand recognition and secondly the fact that if you run a web search not only does Petzl crowd everything else out, but in order to find LED Lenser you have to know they exist; A casual searcher likely will never even know they are out there.
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