To expand on my first post now that I have established the type of camp from Rappleby2000.
"i think he means, an area you will be staying for more than just resting.
so a temporary home from home, which could be:
a huge multi shelter area, or one tarp."
When off on one nighters I just stick with the LED head light and a small battery lantern with a dim feature...
At my permanent camp site I have a mixture of lighting...There are four of the cheapie wick and paraffin lanterns, a couple of the Gaz type mantle lanterns, a Tilley pressurized lantern which is usually a bit of a pain to get lit, in the toilet area we have a couple of 50 watt 12 volt lights running off a couple of 12 v jelly batteries, in the smaller shelter there are a series of car interior lights and a small flourecent light again on a 12 volt battery, in the larger shelter there is a 12 v flourecent light and a couple of 240 v lights that can either run from the generator or through an inverter and a 12 v battery...
So as you can see, a very wide variety of systems for lighting the various area's...
When we have a meet up on the site and are around the fire in the evening we have one of Reds super LED lanterns and of course the light from the fire..So long as we can see the labels on the bottles we don't usually need to much lighting...
LS