Rechargeable Mini Hozuki Lantern

A lantern's runtime figure is usually a promise made at the dimmest setting nobody actually uses. Snow Peak quotes both ends, and the gap between them is the interesting part.

The Rechargeable Mini Hozuki runs 100 hours on low and 60 hours on high, a spread wide enough that a single charge covers a long weekend without rationing light. Most battery lanterns pick one figure and live with it, bright but short-lived or dim and lasting, because they run a single fixed output. The Hozuki gives the dial three positions instead, Hi-Lo, Strobe and Flicker, so the 60 lumens the LED produces get spent differently depending on the moment: full output to find something at the bottom of a pack, low output to read by for four nights running, or the flicker setting, which mimics a real flame for the hour at dusk when a steady white LED is the wrong kind of light to have on a campsite.

The body is polycarbonate, elastomer and ABS resin rather than the softer plastics cheaper lanterns use, with a silicone rubber and PMMA shade over the bulb. At 62 by 75 millimetres and 118 grams it is light enough that the mounting solves itself: there is no hook and no clip, just a built-in magnet strong enough to hold the whole thing to a tent pole or a car frame and leave a hand free. It charges over USB-C, so there are no cells to carry or replace.