Would you be interested in a camping lantern?

[koyotee]

This one: http://www.fenix-store.com/fenix-cl25r-led-rechargeable-lantern/

Features
Utilizes white LEDs and red LEDs with 350-lumen maximum output
Output Modes:
Turbo 350 Lumens: 18650 battery: 2 hours 15 min.; CR123A batteries: 2 hours 5 min.
High 200 Lumens: 18650 battery: 5 hours; CR123A batteries: 4 hours 10 min.
Mid 50 Lumens: 18650 battery: 23 hours 45 min; CR123A batteries: 18 hours 50 min.
Low (Moonlight) 0.8 Lumens: 18650 battery: 600 hours; CR123A batteries: 500 hours
Red 1.5 Lumens: 18650 battery: 44 hours; CR123A batteries: 42 hours
Flashing Red 1.5 Lumens

**When powered by a Fenix ARB-L2-3400mAh 18650 battery, the runtime will be 880 hours

Can light up at mid output, moonlight, or red light while being charged
Excellent cold-weather design with operating temperatures down to –35 degrees C or even –40 degrees C. (Non-rechargeable CR123A batteries are recommended for better low temperature performance)
Micro-USB rechargeable, charging indicator and low voltage warning function
82-feet (25 meter) beam diameter
Intelligent memory circuit; remembers the last mode used before turning off
Built-in protective circuit protects users from overcharging, over discharging, overheating, and improper battery installation
Moolight mode satisfies users’ demand for lower output with extended runtime
Built-in magnet and tripod socket for easy attachment
Luminous single button switch for easy and fast operation
Waterproof to IPX-6 standard

Review:
http://fenixlight.com/ProductexperienceMore.aspx?id=1064&cid=2

[brad]

It’s nice, but I would like to see a better variety of lower settings, something like .08, 3(or 5), 20, 50, 100, 200, and a hidden 350 if it is needed at all.

[Beachlogger]

Somewhat interested but would like to see more of it or a review

[koyotee]

Review link in op

[hank]

No. You can do much better by choosing emitters other than blue-white and red, the two choices in that lantern.
Red is for doing astronomy or operating a submarine, not useful for evenings around a campfire.
You can get inexpensive amber LEDs at any auto supply store and run them forever on small 12v batteries.

Blue light from electronics disturbs sleep, especially for teenagers

light researcher Mariana Figueiro of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. …. investigates how light affects human health, and her recent research focused on finding out which electronics emit blue light intense enough to affect sleep. When comparing melatonin levels of adults and teenagers looking at computer screens, she was astonished by the younger group’s light sensitivity. Even when exposed to just one-tenth as much light as adults were, the teens actually suppressed more melatonin than the older people.

In another experiment, she had adults use iPads at full brightness for two hours and measured their melatonin levels with saliva samples. One hour of use didn’t significantly curtail melatonin release, but two hours’ did.

So although teenagers may be particularly susceptible, we all should be aware that artificial light can affect our circadian rhythms.

“The premise to remember is [that] all light after dusk is unnatural,” Lockley said. “All of us push our sleep later than we actually would if we didn’t have electric light.”

A study from 2013 found that people who spent a week camping in the Rocky Mountains, exposed to only natural light and no electronic devices, had their circadian clocks synchronized with the rise and fall of the sun. Although there were only eight campers, they all reacted in the same way, whether they considered themselves early birds or night owls.

Blue light from electronics disturbs sleep, especially for teenagers

and

while the spectrum of light produced by LEDs can vary from light to light, it turns out that most do produce a significant amount of blue light.
Blue light, it turns out, also attracts bugs.

http://www.energycircle.com/blog/2011/08/17/correction-led-lights-do-attract-bugs

[presterjohn]

That seems like a bit of a mess of a lantern to me. For the kind of money they want for it. It is no where near good enough.

[koyotee]

the price would be much better than the one stated on their page

[Candil]

Definitely but please no more GB please.

[Beachlogger]

@koyotee

Review link in op

Thanks, seems I missed that :8)

[downlinx]

I already have a thorfire and love it, I wonder how this would compare.

[bmwsancho]

Slow ramping would be great in a lantern. Imagine the lantern going from 0.1lm to 50lm seamlessly and then to 100, 200, 350.

[bikenber73]

Sure!!