Petzl  Tikkina 2 LED Headlamp

Some reviewers are being a little unfair to this wonderful headlamp. As the descripton section reads, this is great for home and camping... and nowhere does it say backpacking or trail. For the latter, please choose a headlamp better suited to the task with more bulbs and/or lumens like the Mammut T-Peak Headlamp which is almost twice as bright as the brave little Tikkina 2. That being said, when camping I use this mainly for setting up the tent, reading, or just walking around camp. I also take it when traveling to countries where the lights might go out often, like in SE Asia, and it's worked like a charm.

Purchased this to use around camp once I finished backpacking into my destination. Arrived at camp too early and was bored so I decided to hike for another 3 hours, 2 of those hours under the guide of my Tikkina headlamp. This headlamp is a bit dim to hike by at night, luckily my trail was well laid out and marked, otherwise I would have been in a bad spot. Beam is not wide and only reaches maybe 20 feet out. However, this headlamp isn't made for that. It is an excellent in-camp headlamp to set up your tent, cook dinner, play some cards, read a book, etc. It is nice and light, packs small, durable enough. Use it for what it is intended for and you will be happy.

This headlight works great as stated. For those who complain about brightness need to learn to read as the specs are right there. It it fine for basic home and work use. I have others for hiking or when I need brighter light. For the cheap price you get a good light.

I purchased this because of the nighttime running group that I am a part of. It works great, came with 3 AAA batteries and was easy to throw together in a matter of seconds. It held up great through my 10.5 mile run :)

I have one of these headlamps and it is not a bad headlamp. I think the people who are complaining are a little too demanding. It's cheap and well made and puts out a lot of light for only having 2 LEDs. I have other headlamps that are brighter because they have 3 or 4 LED's or even a 1 watt or 3 watt LED and of course they are brighter, but not so much that this one looks bad. It's good around camp or even for walking. For running or to shine a spotlight on something far away, other lights are better, but then they are more expensive and their batteries will not last as long. This light puts out plenty of light for reading at even the lower setting. I also like that the switch has a positive click when turned on, so it shouldn't suffer from the battery running down while sitting in a drawer like many of the newer lights. I have a couple lights with the infinite dimming feature and I don't like how I have to store them without batteries if I want the batteries to have any juice when I need to use it.

I've been disappointed with this lamp---definitely wouldn't recommend it to anyone who is going out on a trail. I bought it just for use around the house and to walk the dog at night. It's not even sufficient for walking the dog, so I can't imagine relying on it in an outdoors situation. The other downside is that it's really easy to accidentally open up the battery housing and thus spilling three batteries into the trail or road.

I used (or attempted to use) this headlamp for several months before I gave up on it and bought a better option. From the very first time I tried to use it, the "on" button often wouldn't work, and I'd have to click it for a minute or more before it would finally cooperate. The two light (beam) settings are nice, but even the brightest is pretty dim--it provides enough light to set up a tent or play a game of cards, but good luck hiking in the dark with it--and doesn't stay bright for anywhere near as long as advertised. The problem is exacerbated by the lamp's fondness for turning on in my backpack (why won't it cooperate when I try to push the button?). My advice: spend an extra $10 or $20 on a more reliable headlamp. My boyfriend has the Petzl Tikka Plus 2, which works fine, and I replaced this lamp with a Black Diamond Spot that I'm thrilled with.

Had a Black Diamond Gizmo before this, total rubbish. This lamp is much much better, great value for money, engineered well, light weight and even looks a little better than a Gizmo in my opinion.. I'm very happy with it. Black Diamond, really come on step it up, these guys are killing you.

I ordered this in the spring for my 300 mile section hike on the AT, only used it for night hikes 2 times on level easy terrain, to dim for anything more. great around camp and thats pretty much it. the headband stretched so much that it wont even fit very well on my head.

Love the large, waterproof on-off switch. Light weight and long battery life. Alas, just too dim for anything beyond in camp use. Petzl really needs to upgrade one of the LED's in this light to a higher lumen output LED for greater versatility.