I have been using the light for a couple of months now, in order to really get a comprehensive feel for what it does well and what needs improving. My overall impression of the light is that it is “okay.” It does some things well and other things poorly.
My absolute favorite feature is the fact that the light is capable of a very floody throw. Most lights have a giant hotspot in the center, but the FD series allows the user to adjust the beam from spot to flood. The adjustment itself could be better, and I wish it was a hard-stop one-way up and down adjustment instead of a continuous flood-to-throw-to-flood-to-throw that always leaves you guessing whether you should adjust it a little more.

I really don’t have much negative to say about the light. About the only thing I would like to see improved is the mode switch. Finding which side of the light has the mode switch is a total guessing game. I would like to see Fenix improve this in future versions with some sort of better tactile feedback about where the button is.

Overall I’m quite impressed with this light, especially given how clean the beam is in the flood mode.