I am an artist and needs lots of true daylight lighting when I work. This item allows me to get that lighting when traveling and when I am in areas without good task lighting. Small and easy to pack or carry in a shoulder bag. It stands upright sitting its clip style base. The neck is very adjustable but if not clipped to weighted item and you tilt neck too far over either way it will fall over. The batteries in base compartment last a fair amount of time but gets costly to keep replacing when using for numerous hours. I purchased the AC plugin accessory additionally so I can work steadily using the wall plugin for continually powered lighting. Gave it 4 stars because of expense of batteries and expense of buying the electric plugin accessory. In closing however, I highly recommend this product to anyone needing true bright white light that is portable.