Gamma Reviews

The Gamma is a great little headtorch at a great price. i’ve had one for a good few years now.

the only issue i’ve got is the order in which the coloured lights come on. it would be great if you could get them wired in reverse so it came on as Red, flashing red, green, white in order to save night vision when night navigating (the reason for the green and red lights!) rather than destroying night vision with the white light and then having to build it all back up again.

other than that a great product! cheers Alpkit.

Excellent service! Superb head torch! Would deal with you again in a heartbeat

Being the proud owner of the first aqua Gamma sold (still have the great hand written note to prove it) I have just bought my second to use around base camp. I can’t fault this headtorch, it adapts to fit my rescue helmet and has been battered bashed and even taken a dunk, but is still working just fine. We don’t get to go to nice places or do fun things as a USAR team but I wouldn’t be without this kit, and recommend all SARAID members to get one. Great service as ever guys, thanks!

I’d had at least three Gamma’s and I agree that it’s an awesome head torch for the money. However, in my opinion, it has two serious short comings (also mentioned in previous reviews) that preclude its use:

1) You cannot (reliably) use rechargeable batteries.

2) The battery compartment hatch is very fiddly to use and is prone to breaking - even when used with care.

Whilst I *totally heart* Alpkit I’ve returned to Princeton Tec Eos. The Eos Tactical also includes red / green / white colour options.

This is a great little head torch. I dazzled myself switching it on!

I’m seriously impressed by the Gamma. I ordered one for my wife on Wednesday, it arrived Thursday, then got used in the woods on Friday night. She loves it and it out shone my Petzl tikka 2. Everyone on my Christmas list will be getting one of these. Yet again Alpkit come up with the goods at a cracking price.

Ordered 2 Gamma head torches on Wednesday and they were waiting for me when I got home today (Friday). Was well informed by email during the order processing/delivery phase, so knew exactly what was going on.
Have just tried the head torches and they are absolutely bonza - only two weeks to go before my friend Pete and I get to use them for the night time ascent of Mount Fuji - bring it on!

This head torch rivals that on many of the £50+ head torches my friends have, in most cases offering a much wider range of features. I have also found the rear light useful for biking, another feature many head touches don’t have. Basically this head torch is awesome and cheap, what more could you want !

Out in the dark night before last and the torch was awesome. I was a little disappointed that it was a little dimmer than my friends petzl but then realized I had it on the tiny LED, switched it to the main one and it was so bright! The red led makes the grid lines stand out while the green led has the effect of hiding the grid lines and enhancing the contour lines on OS maps which made night time map reading easy. Such a good head torch. The only thing that would make it even better was if the small LED’s came on in a different order as to save night vision. As with the base It was great to see minimal packaging with all the info online.

Hi all, Left this on your FB wall and got 2 likes from complete strangers so maybe I had a point.

If I may make a suggestion (i’ll make one anyway) next time you need to make new mouldings for the Gamma head torch, can you make the battery pack detachable so we can keep the batteries warm at altitude and in freezing temperatures.
Cheers dudes.
PS best head torch i’ve ever had regardless, brilliant!!!
PPS maybe it’s an opportunity to upsell “Gamma II”