Of course not, silly.
I just strike a pose and levitate the camera for a quick selfie.
Just to comment more on the USB C train, another benefit is the increased durability of the USB C port of the previous standard of micro USB. USB C as a spec is built like a tank, as compared to micro USB where I have personally experienced a number of cables and even a few ports going out over time. Granted I personally have not had a USB C phone for as long as I had been using micro USB, but I do feel that usb C would help the long term durability of the flashlight. This of course is in conjunction with the other benefits of USB C, being that it will likely be the ubiquitous port for the next 10 years, is reversable, can exchange power easily both ways, and saves space compared to USB A. Plus a single USB C port is easier to protect against water than a micro USB/USB A combo. I really hope this light comes with USB C. Iāll still buy one if it doesnāt, but itās just one of the main reasons I got excited for this lights development anyways.
If Barry can source the USB-C interface plug/port without increasing cost per lantern to much we will go with USB-C. (as its the future format for much everything atm.
Ohh man! Iām SO cautiously excited about this!
In this context, a lantern is a portable lamp.
I.e. it has a handle for carrying it about (well this one doesnāt yet, but it better had if Iām going to buy one, otherwise it isnāt actually a lantern.) And it has a self contained power source.
E.g. I have an Anglepoise lamp on my desk. Plugged into the mains. This is not a lantern.
I also have a Vapalux M1 lantern (actually four) which I can carry around at base-camp, for beach and boat fishing. It also kicks out 1 kW of heat and runs for ten hours from 1 litre of paraffin, whilst shining as brightly as a 100W incandescent bulb. All done with a mantle, not an LED. It is the first thing that I would reach for in a SHTF situation, together with a jerrycan of paraffin. Particularly if the weather was chilly or very damp, and I needed to e.g. dry out clothes, on an airer above it.
Thank you :+1:
I am also interested in one perhaps also with sometimes named extras.
I take one for sure and depending on price maybe another 2-3
Realisticly WHEN could we expect this lantern??? Soon? this year? beginning of next year? in time for the next ice age?
I suspect like me some of us are needing/wanting a lantern like this sooner rather than laterā¦
I know I for one and one other member of the forum who I know well are now relooking at the CL30R again which means we would very likely not bother with this oneā¦ I know some of you will say just hold out but when we use lanterns almost daily in autumn/winter for work and play I have to start and look at the need not the want. And currently I NEED to start an look to replace my current CL25Rās with something. But I WANT the BLF Lantern so the NEED out ways the want(was going to say Trumps the want but Trump is now a Dirty word)
SO a simple answer would be niceā¦thank you
It is done when it is done 
So a TRUMP response!!!
I have a suggestionā¦
Go buy something else from another source if you want a lantern now or yesterday.
- I can not, and will NOT push a manufacturer who has stepped in to take on this project for us, to get it done in the time some of you want it.
Sorry it has been in the works for some time, (because First, some of us have lives other than dedicating time & energy into projects that donāt put bread on our table & pay the bills. Some of us donāt have the perfect life or lives going as smoothly as you may have, (read back through my current situation with what i am dealing with family and real life outside this project, where most would have walked away like others have when they run into hardships in their lives) Its comments like yours who drive the interest from us who spend sleepless nights and many, many hours of free time to push these projects forward. We have some key team members helping with this lantern project disappear from BLF completely (TheMiller & DEL) who were helping me and the few other dedicated people here working to help get this a reality, if you can not understand that and how much can go into developing something like this then go elsewhere to get want you want. There are a couple posters here in this topic who have been a āthorn in the sideā of this project for some time, we donāt need more. - Den
I completely understand your response(I run my own business, have family and run a team in SAR) and was actually after a simply time frame so I would know/ have an ideaā¦
And sometimes thatās all it takes to appease people.
As to pushing a manufacturer I never suggested you doā¦
BUT if you would prefer I leave this thread and nolonger have the three lanterns am down for then simply sayā¦ā¦
With the life experience you have I expect that you know that often there is no simple ansewer
I doā¦ but sometimes one can be found
I bought this to keep me going because I was in the same boat as you and needed one asap, itās decent
Nice lantern but concerned about this DBSAR Lantern Mini-Review: -Zanflare T1 (UPDATE: Second T1 failed! and as I often use lanterns underground an IPX54 is not suitable. BUT thank you for you recommendationā¦.
I also support the itās done when itās done mentality, I donāt see a good reason to rush the production of a simpler version with a much better mk2 on the horizon.
And I would be careful to recommend the Zanflare T1: on the one hand itās a nice little lantern, but on the other hand it has serious overheating issues. Because the inner metal tube doubles as led heatsink and battery tube the battery gets critically overheated (50-60Ā°C in most cases, some even hotter) when the lantern is on max power for more than a few minutes. Some people already had accidents with venting batteries.
heard there was a few issues but not heard about venting!!! Crap thats not good!!!