Lume Cube Panel Mini - Bicolor Continuous Video Light for on and Off Camera Video

Fantastic smallish hot light for close portraits, macro work or other photo and video situations. Hotshoe accessory means it can go on camera or on a tripod or other mount as a secondary source with other hot lights or with strobe. Detailed intensity controls let you fine-tune the amount of light and temperature settings mean you can dial in the degree of warmth or coolness precisely. The LED display provides good ongoing awareness about intensity, color temperature and the battery level; it even changes in real time.As you increase the setting from a low to a high power, for example, the unit re-estimates its remaining runtime. When you change from a high power to a lower power, the light gives you more estimated runtime. Also comes with a great simple plastic diffuser to help manage highlights in your subject.This is a small LED hot light around the size of a mobile phone so it's not going to light up your cover shot for Vogue but for what it can do at its small size it's an excellent product.

Es una excelente lámpara para las transmisiones en vivo nocturnas por las calles de la ciudad

Light for travelling, good usage for indoor and night time use

Lichtleistung ist bemerkenswert trotz der geringen Größe. Für jemanden der mal schnell etwas Licht auf der Szene braucht sehr zu empfehlen (Stichwort: Hochzeiten, wenn man nicht blitzen kann oder mag). Verarbeitung ist gut und das Teil passt in jede Fototasche. Vielleicht etwas teuer. Von Rollei gibt es z.B. ähnliches, aber ich wollte beim Original bleiben. Bisher habe ich den Kauf jedoch nicht bereut.

Likes:I liked that the unit is easy-to-use, no complex menus to faff around with, and it remembers its settings. I also liked the USB-C charging capability. What's really excellent is that it has two diffusers; a permanently mounted plastic diffuser over the LEDs, and a second slip-on silicone diffuser which sits about 5mm away from the first diffuser. This is really great for subtle lighting and for detail on my macro photos, where a ring light can be hopeless unless it really is high-end and well designed to control direction and glare reduction. I like that the light can be used fairly dimmed which is sufficient for many photos where I want to control glare on shiny product photos for instance. The colour-temperature range is good too.The main unit itself feels reasonably sturdy, and the permanently-attached plastic diffuser should protect the front of the unit somewhat too.Battery life I think is good, especially if it is not operated at max brightness. For a lot of my photos, I have the brightness set to under 20% for instance, and then battery life is around 4 hours. At 10% brightness, the battery life is around 6.5 hours, and I often use that level to provide directed illumination for small product photos. Even at 1% brightness the unit can be used as a camping light, and will operate for 12 hours.Dislikes:Not much to dislike. I wish it was slightly cheaper in a bundle of say two, since one might not always be enough. I also wish the unit came with a case, because I don't want to damage the silicone add-on diffuser.