I picked up a Brunton Lamplight LED light and am pretty impressed with it.



It has a nice bright spot with pretty good throw to 30-50 feet. I haven't tried reading with the lamp mode yet, but I think it would be effective if suspended overhead as you would be looking at the bulb if it were on the table in candle mode. But it was the 200 hour runtime on three AAA's that really got me to buy it to throw in my backpack to buddy up with my Petzl Tikka XP headlamp and my new Surefire L2 which will replace my current Inova XO3.

That's a lot of light. Maximum run times of 200 hours for the Brunton, 120 hours for the Tikka XP and 18 hours for the L2. That's up to two weeks of continuous burn (in a perfect world). Maybe more with lithium batteries.

To me, that is very acceptable for a hiking/camping backpack/BOB.

Of course, that doesn't include the Fenix LoP on my keychain, nor the Inova Microlight with red LED and Arc AAA-P in the PSK.

What do you guys and gals carry?