Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat value for money, easy to set up and use.
Reviewed in Canada on January 6, 2022
These are great little lights that pack a punch at their highest setting. The hardware's great quality for the price, frankly — I've seen other reviews of similarly-priced products complain about cheap plastic. The tripods for these are metal.
I bought these for better lighting for teaching, meeting, and streaming. I have one set up on each side of my dual-monitor set-up.
A couple of notes:
- The coloured inserts are fun, but don't really work to "warm up" the light in a natural way. The colour is quite obvious and should be used with purpose (i.e. if you want to flood something in blue/yellow/red/orange light or some combo). The inserts could be used more subtly if you're in an environment with a similar colour (e.g. using the blue light as a fill if you have a blue backdrop).
- The lights aren't especially high — 4-foot-something — so to put them behind or above an elaborate desktop setup you'd need to mount the USB lights independently of the tripods. As I said, I have mine on either side of my monitors and that works fine.
- This isn't necessarily a negative, but note that the lights are quite small. They work absolutely fine for my purposes, but to light a larger area you may need larger lights. Definitely work for Zoom/Twitch/Youtube purposes.
If these were more expensive, I'd rate them a 4: great, but with some limitations (see above). Given their price, though, these are really a steal.