This lantern is phenomenal . It comes with the three AAA batteries needed to power up and works straight out of the packaging. An adjustable wrist loop is also pre attached. The base is magnetic so it can be securely stuck on a magnetic metal surface whilst there are also fold flat metal loops for hanging it up in a tent or from your clothing as required. The one on/off switch cycles the lighting options from a 180' lantern light to a 360' one both white and then to a 360' red and finally the lantern shuts down and the torch end is lit providing a 112 m beam. A brilliant piece of kit. Being LED battery life should be excellent too.

It's perhaps a bit odd in this day and age to see a lantern which is battery powered. It requires 3 x AA, which are included, in fact it's ready to go without having to remove any protective barrier, though you do need to disable "demo mode" which you can use whilst still in its packaging (which is also rather 'old skool' in being hard to get into blister packaging) which turns the light off after 5 seconds, by removing the batteries and waiting 10 seconds before inserting them again. In theory given the lack of built-in rechargeable battery you would maybe expect it to be a bit cheaper as a result, but the price seems comparable with similar rechargeable ones.There are no proper instructions given on the packaging - I had to use the QR code to go to the company website homepage and find the specific product type and model and then find the usage instructions. So: using the button (which is small, fiddly and really stiff and I tend to need to press it with my fingernail rather than the flat of the thumb) it goes through modes of 120° white light, 360° white light, 360° red light (all of these casting light out to the side when placed in upright position), followed by white spotlight (casting light from the end, like a torch) in two different brightness levels.Pressing and holding the button (quite hard to do, given how you have to press it) whilst on will dim the current light. It doesn't dim all the way to off, it goes down to a certain brightness, which is still really quite bright, fairly quickly before turning off completely. Because it goes from max brightness down to minimum brightness then immediately off in just a couple of seconds, combined with the sheer fiddliness of the button which you can't press for a short time, it's impossible to get it down to a reasonable level. Why on earth can't it just dim to minimum and then just stay there? Why does it have to instantly turn off? This is just plain daft! You can't do it in short stages, firstly because of the inability to press the button for a short time and secondly because once you release the button and press and hold again, it starts to increase the brightness again. The fact that you can't dim it by more than a certain amount really reduces the usability of this because of just how bright it still is even at the dimmest setting you can actually get it to after several attempts. The 120° setting can possibly mitigates this to some extent so you can direct it away from your eyeline, so long as there is some material behind it reflecting back.When off, press and hold will go straight to red light. A double click (again, very hard to do properly with this button) will turn on with the last saved mode, which presumably means what mode and brightness was set when you last turned it off, but because the button is so hard to double click properly I can't actually successfully confirm this.In summary I really don't feel like this is a very useful light at all. Two main reasons, the truly awful power button which is really quite hard to use, and the inability (partially consequential to the button and partially because of how dimming works) to dim sufficiently to a tolerable level for situations like camping where it's very likely going to be within your field of vision.EDIT: After writing this review I went back to this to play with it a bit more. It had, somehow, reverted to "demo" mode, which is to say that it kept turning itself off 5 seconds after turning on. So I had to take the batteries out again and wait 10 seconds before putting them back in again. If it is going to keep on doing this, then it is even more useless.

Here we have a compact camping lantern, with a few interesting features and a few questionable ones.It looks and feels great. The main chassis is an acrylic tube, with a hard rubber cap on either end.The rear has a magnetic base, that's powerful enough to keep the light firmly affixed to compatible surfaces. There are a couple of metal hoops to make it easy to hang also.Beneath the acrylic tube, a COB LED is visible, along with a fancy reflector to give this a good even spread as a lantern. There's a rubberised power switch, that's quite hard to press. One click turns half the COB on, two turns the whole thing on, three switches it to a red beacon, four turns the front torch on high, five switches it to low, and one more press turns it off.Performance is great, the COB is extremely bright, actually, a little too bright, it would be better if it were more diffused so as to be not quite so dazzling, but it certainly puts out a useful amount of light. The red beacon is useful as a warning lamp or just to use as a less dazzling lantern light. The main torch is surprisingly bright, on fully charged batteries it's a very useful little torch.On to the negatives. The acrylic tube looks good, but it will pick up scratches really quickly. I think it would have been better if they'd used a small acrylic band, just around the cob area, and protected it well with rubber bumpers, this would be more durable.Main negative, this takes three AA batteries, a very practical choice as certainly AA batteries are easily available, but it's more convenient to use a modern lithium cell with an on-board charging now.There's a plenty of choice around this price range, whilst I would prefer a lantern with a rechargeable cell, I do very much like the build quality and performance of this light.

The lantern function on this is quite good, the light is piercing don't look straight at it when it's on its max setting.It comes with the batteries it requires but unfortunately there's no recharge function with this device, no usb slot.(it requires 3 AA's and comes with 3 non rechargeable alkalines installed)The usage of the power/mode button is quite painful, has to be pressed rather hard and a long press doesn't turn it off, instead it cycles the magnitude (brightness) upwards, eventually resetting to low then up again.This means, to turn it off, you have to cycle through the modes by once again, pressing the difficult power button a few times. (if on for a while one press does, turn it off)The magnetic end although not neodymium is, powerful enough to keep it fixed even around heavy vibrations.If this was rechargeable i'd give it 4 stars but in this day and age it's my estimation that it's merely average.The light technology employed, although not as many lumens as certain products that only cost £5 more.. is very impressive and deserves a piece of the market.What's poor about this device is how it delivers, an awkward power button and no recharge function means this will probably not be your favourite light source despite its usefulness.

I really like the design simplicity of this little lamp. It reminds me of a typical miner’s lamp, which – because of my family history – resonates with me. It’s not rechargeable (but it does come with batteries included). The quality both of the product and of the emitted light seem very good to me. I particularly like the fact that it has a red light option too. A winner as far as I’m concerned.