Lume Cube2.0 Professional Lighting Kit | Portable LED Light & Accessories for Professional DSLR Cameras | Camera Light, Adjustable Brightness & Color, Lightweight Aluminum, Cold Shoe & 1/4" 20 Mount

I tried really hard to love this, I really did, but it spent less than 24 hours in my house before going back. First up, I don't know how they made it look so tiny in all the promos, perhaps they are very large men's hands, but this thing is waaaay bigger than I expected, and it's heavy too. I was buying it to replace a large, heavy flash unit and it's almost as big and actually heavier. The packaging was very difficult too, as there is a perforation you have to tear to open the box, which made it feel really final, a crossing of a rubicon. I know I have protected consumer rights to be able to try the product to the same extent I could try it in the shop, but I still feel wary about this broken box, and I feel like it will put some people off returning even if they don't like it. Next up - only in complete darkness did this really make any difference to my photos. In room lighting, it was either indifferent, worse than the on-camera flash or actively worse than room lighting. I couldn't get the ISO to shift down from 6400 unless I stuffed it so uncomfortably close to people that they were not prepared to look at me becuase it's so bright! Couldn't really use it for a flash because the whole problem I have is my daughter is scared of flash so we need a constant light source, but it's too bright for anyone to come near. We tried holding it at all sorts of angles, on the end of monopods, either we got a hard light with heavy shadows or it didn't add much to the ambient light at all.I am starting to realise why all the photos and reviews I have seen for the product use lots of them as creative coloured backlighting, it does seem good for that purpose, but it's not useful as as sole light, it's not a lighter replacement for a flash unit and it's not really that useful as a video light unless your subjects don't have retinas. Quite how it managed to be blindingly bright yet at the same time still give me 6400 1/10 photos at f3.5 I cannot explain to you, but it was both too bright and not bright at all. Not for me.

I received my Lume Cube 2 today about 3 hours ago and it has been repackaged to return. Don't get me wrong -- waterproof, easy to use, Bluetooth functionality and reasonable size (although the product marketing makes it look quite a bit smaller) -- these are all positive points and the magnetic adapters snap with a very satisfying sound. Build quality overall seems top-notch.However, I need my lights to...well, light! I wanted a light to help illuminate me during video conferencing and thought I'd pay a bit of extra money for a light that I could use as a portable device at other times too. However, in my tests the Lume Cube has performed horribly. Even at a distance of less than a metre, it made very little difference on video, invariably doing little other than acting as a fill light with my laptop screen acting as the main light source.The diffuser and warm gel attachment were nice (and needed to achieve a good look) but reduced the output even further.Pair this with a modern DSLR/mirrorless camera with a ISO above 3200 and maybe you'll get much better results. But for my (frankly, very straightforward!) requirements -- it was all-but-pointless. For the same price, I can get two LED panels that'd put out an order of magnitude more light. Returned!

I'm not going to repeat product description here. IMO it's all true - great quality built, quality light etc. There is one caveat I want you to know which is not anywhere in the description or their website. Lume Cube can only be charged with USB-A to USB-C cable like the one supplied with it. It can not be charged with USB-C to USB-C cable. No matter what your source of power is. Though you can charge it from devices with USB-C outputs using A to C cable and male C to female A adaptor. It is not a dealbreaker for me, but I wish I knew it beforehand.

Used mainly as a fill in for video, and only light use. It is a small unit and for close objects/people it's fine and quite bright. Some of the reviews seem to think it should have searchlight ability! Others returned it as they couldn't fit the filter holder. I had the same problem at first-it was initially very hard to fit but it did eventually go on- so persevere. You do want it to be a firm fit when in use.Three times put into water, once into a fish tank when it was new to test it, twice into a garden pond at a depth of about 1ft for about 20min. After retrieving it from the pond it had a dead battery, plugged into charge and the rear cover was tight and hard to open so should be water-tight. The charging port was dry. Charged it, it works but when I look at the front its 1/3 full of water. Its supposed to be waterproof to 30ft!Maybe I am just unlucky but it's disappointing. It isn't cheap and to fail so soon is not impressive.Sorry for the fuzzy photo but it makes the point.

A powerful little unit that packs power. Make sure yo buy the snoot add on as you can create some dramatic light. I know they are cheaper knock offs out there but not sure if they perform as well so I'm not disappointed as this one is built solid and comes with an app so I can control the light from my phone.