LED Lenser Headlamp and Flashlight
- A really good strong useful headlamp and a tiny little pocket flashlight, which is fine or whatever
- H7 headlamp brings 155 lumens to bear on your geographical surroundings or a book right in front of you
- P2 will be good for, we dunno, finding stuff in your basement? Dental inspections? Playing with your cat?
- Made by a subsidiary of Leatherman, which might count for something
Buy it for the headlamp.
Some duos are partnerships of equals, two superstars united by an ampersand, each half as essential and vibrant as the other. Lennon & McCartney. Fey & Poehler. Ruth & Gehrig. Turner & Hooch. Duran & Duran.
This is not one of those. This pairing is the other kind. The lopsided kind where one partner is obviously the star and the other one is, at best, a trivia answer, and at worst, the butt of lazy jokes.
Here, the Leatherman Lenser H7 LED headlamp vastly outshines its partner (sorry, dumb joke) (but it’s literally true). With 200 lumens, stepped tilt for a 90-degree range of angles, stageless dimming, and an Advanced Focus System for either a long-throw distance light or a tightly focused reading lamp, the H7 is the partner who will always be more prominent on the album covers.
Alas, the LED Lenser P2 Flashlight is the dim bulb here. It’s tiny. It’s not super bright (16 lumens). It’s fine for what it is: a pocket flashlight. A purse flashlight. A fanny-pack flashlight. A flashlight you could lose and not miss it while the H7 headlamp is having a spectacular solo career.
This isn’t always fair. DJ Jazzy Jeff is probably great at what he does, but Hollywood didn’t rush to make him a leading man. Tom Davis is a funny dude, but Al Franken is a Senator. And there’s no way you or I could handle the decades of ridicule directed at Art Garfunkel and John Oates. We’re sure all the P2 Flashlight’s high school friends thought it was very talented. We’re sure its mother loves it. It just can’t compare to the H7 headlamp’s brilliance (sorry, dumb joke again).