Hello, just one more light addict popping in.
I go through phases of torch binges with multi-year periods of hibernation in-between to wait for technology to improve. During my latest binge, I found BLF extremely helpful, so I wanted to thank everyone here for all the great reviews, suggestions, and other information.
As for me, I’ve always loved things that glow in the dark. As a little girl I collected anything and everything which glowed, shined, reflected, or refracted… though most torches at the time were pretty terrible. It seemed that flashlights were fragile things to be used once then kept in a drawer until the battery, the bulb, or both, died. One day though, back in elementary school when I was helping my dad work on cars in the garage, he took out a car headlight and battery and told me it’d light up if I hooked them together. And boy oh boy did it shine! I rigged up a quick connection and lugged around a lead-acid battery half my weight along with a gigantic headlight, wandering all around and marvelling at the way it killed the darkness and revealed everything in my path. I decided then that I had to have something like it, as soon as such things were small and light enough to be carried.
Fast-forward to today, and I now have an EDC-able torch with the output of a car headlight but in a form only the size of a cigar. This makes me happy. 
Plus, even cooler devices like a Skyray King, brighter than any pair of headlights I’ve compared against, and I can EDC it in my coat pocket during the winter… even though it really is too bright for any normal daily use.
By far the most useful torch I have is a Zebralight H51w. The ‘w’ tint may have been a mistake, since I prefer cool white better, but it’s easily the most versatile light I’ve ever found. It covers 4 orders of magnitude of brightness, 0.2lm to 172lm, so it’s appropriate for almost any situation. It has incredible runtimes — even with multiple hours per day of use, it still lasts me 3-4 weeks per charge. And it works in quite a few different hands-free configurations… I normally keep it clipped to my purse facing forward, or I’ll wear it as a necklace on a holder I made from a shoelace, velcro, and cable lock. With a small neodymium magnet, I can also attach it to any ferrous surface with full 180+360 degree aiming freedom. And, of course, it’s also nice as a headlamp. It does pretty much everything I need.
So, all my other lights are effectively toys. But that’s okay, because I’m a ToyKeeper.
It’s nice to find women that love torches….(Flashlights are not in the SA’n lingo)