incan is not as efficient, but the quality of the light is better for outdoor situations, it works better with the eye to render depth perception and color.
That is why we incan lovers sacrifice runtime, to get a pocketable torch, that has incandecent lighting quality, combined with stunning output. You can always carry more cells or more lights for runtime.
brightest/longest running small incan out there.
a very common quote around here is:
1. bright
2. small
3. long runtime
"choose any 2"
and that's the truth, especially with incans...
but I would like to remind you, that a li-ion incandecent light, gives more useful output through the runtime than something like an alkaline flashlight. If you are familiar with the way a maglight or similar "alkaline" powered light does. It gives a nice output for about 10 minutes then after the first 30-40 minutes is about 50% output, then gives another 10 hours of so of steadily dimming sickly output. Lithium powered flashlights deliver all their oomf in the first hour more steadily.
grab something like a G2, (nice and compact 2 cell light), drop in a pair of RCR123s from AW, and run a LF SR-9. runtime will be about 30+ minutes, but it would be really decently bright (trust me, it's really impressive for it's size).