My wife bought a couple of blowup solar LED lanterns for camping. They work well for background ambient light while camping, but reading is near impossible. This will be an adjunct to those lights, and also be backup lighting to our 2nd home where the electrical company can’t keep the electricity going regularly.
Being doing BBQ almost once a week. Would be great to have it at the table when it gets dark.
I been using the original V1 & V2 prototypes for exactly that too, and around the patio or backyard campfire after dark.
addition to my other ‘shelf Queens.’
Camping. Room lighting. I really want lots of optisolises on mine. Maybe we can start badgering clemence into making mcpcb for that.
I’ll be using it in me shed
& in me lean to.
Mine will mostly be my bedside table reading lamp, but I’ve been through 2 floods and 4 Hurricane’s so I’m pretty sure I’ll be using it for power outages too.
This needs to be a Working King though and not a Shelf Queen. 
aye aye sir 
Being in Florida, between our crappy power grid and hurricane season, I’ve been looking for a quality lantern for a while now. I also love camping and being outdoors, so it’ll get taken on trips frequently too. Also, I work backstage a lot during stage productions, so having a dimmable, controlled light with long run times could be really handy too.
Camping, work, and possibly portable home lighting charged off my solar array.
Where to begin!
3-point lighting for photography & video - tint, intensity, directional and mounting options are endless!
Emergency lighting in brownouts and power failures
Day-to-day home use. I have two Zanflare lanterns I’ve used the $#17 out of and these LT1s will take over. I find tint-ramping lanterns have give such a pleasing light…
I plan on charging them with a 24w RAV solar panel and a 24 ah power bank just for the fun of it.
This is why collectors need to buy at least three LT1s…
One in mint condition for their collection,
One daily driver,
and one for fidgeting and fondling….
I knew there was a reason I should get more than one !
Camping (though camping season is over from my family for this year) will be the main use and I expect it will be used around the house for fun and occasional work. Looking forward to it arriving.
Exactly why I’ve been on the list for 2+ yrs. Wish I had after Irma, having no grid juice for 10 days, and now Dorian moving in. I will say though, if you use Ryobi One+ interchangeable battery power tools, they have a high/low lantern that did rather well for me, lasting 2 nights on one charge with the standard battery. The new ones have a USB power supply now.
Oh man, all you guys talking about camping makes me itching to book a site next year to camp. Hopefully we can get the lantern(s) by then.
Mostly camping but also emergency preparedness. I was just camping with friends and a buddy popped out his old coleman propane lantern. It’s bright, but such a pain to use.
For energy density you can’t beat propane or white gas. But they are both a PITA to use with the mantles, at least that’s been my experience. The mantles tend to break during transportation to and from the destination.