Ah, that's a great tip. I had not thought of that--turning that focusing optic into a spreading optic.

That optic is my primary reason for never getting a Survival Light or PALight back when they first came out years back--the beam is a distinct circle with a sharp cut-off, so you suffer from that "follow the bouncing ball effect" because you can only see what is within that circle. To be fair, that was quite common among many lights back then, when LEDs were pretty weak and you had to do things like use a lens to concentrate all that light into a smaller beam. We've certainly a long way from then in a short time.