There’s no obviously visible colouring or patterning in the beam which is good. This is clearly designed specially for the LED emitter inside (it looks to be a COB design) and produces a wide and soft beam. In operation the whole cube acts as a heatsink so they’ll get very, very hot to touch. There are 10 brightness settings as well, one of the buttons on top cycles between them - you get to play the dirty harry game though because there’s no feedback which setting you have - have i pressed 9 times or 10? - as it will cycle around to the lowest setting when you think you’ve got one more to go for full. Once charged I saw around 50 mins at full power. They do also support flash triggering but we’re all video based, so that doesn’t interest us right?Ĭharging is via USB and there’s a small panel that unscrews at the back to reveal the socket, it is done this way so the connection is waterproof. They support bluetooth and a number of them can be slaved together and controlled as one via an iOS or Android app. ![]() They are daylight only (around 6000K) and have a fixed lens which is quite wide. They are rated at 1500 Lumens and yield 150 lux at 3m, which isn’t that bad for something this size (although i’ve not been able to verify these claims). They’re battery powered, water proof, small, light and a fairly powerful source. These $79 Lume Cubes were originally a kickstarter project and now available direct from the manufacturers. ![]() I can fit a full 4K recording package, with lenses into a backpack. With the ability to become more and more portable on the camera side of things, it’s wonderful to see the numbers of lighting options increase too. I also have a small LED panel from Aladdin as well as a bi-flex lite panel, both of which i really rate. My go to light is an Area 48, which is stunning light in terms of quality, flexibility and, sadly, cost. There are a number of small battery powered LED lights out there now, at a variety of price points. You could then use TT600, TT685, or V860II flash units for main/background/accent/rim lighting.I happened upon these little lights and out of curiosity ordered a couple. You might consider selling your 580 and replacing it with aįLASH HAVOC - GODOX – TT685C – TTL Radio Speedlite – Flashpoint Zoom TTL R2įLASH HAVOC - GODOX – V860II-C – Canon TTL Radio Speedlite – (Flashpoint Zoom Li-on R2 TTL) You can control this Manual flash remotely via RF or you can trigger it optically.įLASH HAVOC - GODOX – TT600 (Flashpoint Zoom Li-on R2 TTL) – Remote Manual 2.4GHz Speedlite – Now Available The small size of the Luma Cube also means that the light will be hard light and the lack of zoom means you will have to manually move them the right distance from the subject to illuminate it completely, which of course will change the amount of light on the subject from the Luma Cube leading to many more test shots unless you have a good hand held incident light meter capable of reading both continuous light and flash.Īdditional hot-shoe flash units are a much more practical solution. Nikonparrothead had it right, the Luma Cubes won't be of much use in normal daylight, only near sunrise/sunset or at night. The chances are that your hot-shoe flash will be much brighter than any Luma Cube. ![]() Your 580 has roughly the power of a 60Ws strobe if used with an umbrella to soften the light. The power of your hot-shoe flash is roughly equal to the GN for the flash when it is used with a diffuser.
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