Lupine “Betty”

Readers of my Headlamps and Flashlights review know how pleased I am with Lupine’s Wilma. Now Lupine Lighting Systems has announced Betty, using 7 LEDs instead of 4, for a blinding 1400 lumen output whose sturdy build, beam quality, runtime and color accuracy are not to be confused with lesser lights. Nighttime photographers take note! One wonders about Fred and Barney.

Lupine Betty headlamp/bike light

Editorial diatribe—web sites based on Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash are a scourge, a pox on internet usability. Lupine’s Flash-based web site is a step backwards in functionality, and makes it impossible to link directly to product descriptions. It doesn’t render properly in Safari or FireFox on Mac OS X. Lupine had an HTML alternative, but it seems to have disappeared, rendering all my past links “404 not found”.