| Depends what you want. If you want a big ligh sabre you need to face the relity that you won't get it for £50.
What you will get for £50 is a very good LED handheld torch, which will be more than adequate for 90% of recreational diving in the UK.
I recently got a TekTite torch from Divelife which I'm using as a backup, it has a pretty tigt beam, but I know Brett has a larger torch which would probably be the best you'll get for that money.
I suggest LED as you don't need to buy lots of batteries, if any, ever, and they're very compact as a result. You don't want a big lantern if you can avoid it, as they're bulky to stow away and personally I find them a pain to hold for a long dive.
If you gte a smaller torch get an elastic strap attatched to the back and you can put this around your wrist. Means if you need to use the hand you won't lose the torch, and also you can attatch it by this when you put it away.
Ebay isn't the place to get a good deal in reality, check out the personals here or on Divernet.com and you often find backup/small torches going cheap.
You won't get HID for your budget. Normal bulbs are fine but you don't get as long a burntime as LED, and the light isn't very white in my experience.
If you don't go LED, get rechargeable. Battery cost does add up, and disposing of batteries isn't good for the environment (see, I can be a kelp hugger!) but also means you end up taking a bag of batteries away for a longre trip, or having to find somewhere to buy them, which isn't always easy with C or D cells in some resorts.
I also have a couple of SL4s in stock brand new, and probably a couple of Ikelite PClites, which are both accpetable options and will do for poking in holes and looking under things, but I'd say are probably a little underpower for low viz and/or night dives.
Hope this helps.
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