Silva’s new Seek headtorches have the one feature dawn shooters need

Every landscape photographer knows the walk. It is dark, you are somewhere near Corfe Castle or halfway up a hill you scouted on a map, and you have perhaps forty minutes before the light starts to build. A phone torch is not the answer — you need both hands for a tripod, and you need to be able to see your kit without waving a beam around. Silva has just added two new headtorches to its Seek range, and while they are pitched at hikers and campers, they solve exactly this problem. Both are available now from Silva. Why the red-light mode matters more than the lumens Both models include a red-light mode, and for anyone shooting at dawn or after dark that is the single most important feature here. Your eyes take around 20 to 30 minutes to fully dark-adapt, and a single burst of white light destroys that...