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I have a case where two officers used flashlights that the company measures in lumen rather than candlepower. Almost everything we have used in the past was explained through candlepower and not lumen. I have the very basic understanding of Lumen and what type of light it creates, however the people I am writting the report for do not. I have a 65 lumen flashlight, lighting a target at approximately 60 feet away and a 125 lumen flashlight, lighting a targe at approximately 12 feet away. Is there anyway I can get a candlepower equivelent to the lumen rating of these two flashlights at the distances they were used? If not, can I get a simple conversion of the lumen to candlepower of the flashlights by using the standard testing process used to compute candlepower?
Re: Converting lumens to candlepower
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