Everyone who goes camping, or has camped in the past knows the importance of having a good and reliable light, torch or lantern. There is nothing worse than waking up in the middle of a dark and rainy night for a call of nature with the toilet block a 200m walk only to find that your lantern batteries have given up the ghost and you have no light. It is moments like these that can seriously make you consider whether camping is really worth it. Before I got this lantern I always ensured that I had loads of spare batteries to ensure that I never got caught short, but this turned out to be quite expensive and I was forever 'mislaying' the spares. Wind ...  Read the complete review

Intro ------ Everyone has had that age old camping experience when it is the middle of the night and you are hunting around for a torch so that you can nip out to the toilet in the pitch black at 3 in the morning. Then finding that the batteries are dead and you're in real trouble. The wind up eliminates this problems, as the energy is created as and when you need it, by yourself. My friend bought one of these wind-up products to Glastonbury when I went this year, and I really liked it, so I insisted we got one of these lanterns for our future camping trips! The wind up lantern ------------------------- Now, whilst I enjoyed the torch ...  Read the complete review

I bought this thinking it would be a good lamp to use around camp where you dont want to blind eachother with the high power of head torches. Which this lamp actually does very well, in pitch black the light is enough to let a small group sit and talk without lighting up half the camp site. Inside the tent its fine for general illumination in a 2 or 3 man but fails to light a big family tent and not enough to read from unless you position it carefully. With 12 LED's this is 3 to 4 times the power of a typical head torch but spread over a larger area so lots of light which isn't very intense, perfect. However 4 head torches would require 12 batteries to power, ...  Read the complete review

We do a lot of BBQs etc in the garden, and invariably they may run on late into the evening after it gets dark. Often what we would do is get the candles out to provide a little light, but get a slight wind and they would occasionally blow out. Also, they didn't tend to throw much light. We've tried table lamps, but then you have to trail power leads around, which isn't always good in the dark. So a few months back, we were at a friend's house chatting in the garden in the evening, and he suddenly came out with this little Gelert Wind Up Lantern, which seemed an ideal solution to answer our problem. Looking around on the web, I found one on Amazon for just under £20  Read the complete review

Although I wouldn't say I am the keenest of campers I find the Gelert 12 LED wind-up lantern comes in handy regularly when I am out in the middle of nowhere. Lanterns in general have their advantages and disadvantages in comparision to a torch, but it would be unfair to compare the two as they have different uses. The only similarity is that they both shed light! lanterns are ideal for when the light is poor and you need to put the tent up, or for cooking in the evening. Often a fire would be lit to keep warm in the evening, but in the Summer this isn't usually necessary, so the Gelert 12 LED wind-up lantern comes in handy for numerous reasons. The lantern ...  Read the complete review