Logitech Litra Glow assessment: A superb, reasonably priced LED mild for streaming or working from dwelling

It looks like everybody turned a content material creator prior to now couple of years. Those that did not begin displaying off dance strikes on TikTok or how-to expertise on YouTube at the least began spending a complete lot extra time on a webcam for work or video chats with family and friends. And the lighting was horrible. 

Even in case you went and acquired a cheap ring mild (I did), it might have became an excessive amount of of a problem to arrange and use for normal Zoom calls or Groups conferences. I needed to often work in several rooms of my home so establishing a big ring mild each time I moved was a ache. That is why the Litra Glow is the proper mild on the proper time. 

At $60, it prices barely greater than the ring mild I’ve, nevertheless it has a lot worth packed into it that it is greater than value the additional expense. That worth converts to roughly £45 or AU$85. Lots of the worth is within the mount. It hooks proper onto the highest of a monitor — from a skinny laptop computer show to an exterior monitor as much as about 1.5 inches thick. The monitor clip folds down for storage, too. 

Gently pulling up on the sunshine extends the mount vertically as much as 4 inches. The mount additionally tilts and swivels the sunshine so you will get the proper place. I put on glasses so this characteristic lets me get the proper angle to mild my face with out the sunshine reflecting in my glasses, or blinding me for that matter. The mount additionally has cable administration clips on the again for the included detachable USB-C-to-USB-A cable used to energy the Glow. 

The mount design makes it good for anybody who wants an LED mild for journey, even when it is solely to a special room of your own home. Plus, if for some purpose you wish to use the sunshine and never the monitor mount, the Glow is connected by an ordinary tripod mount so that you merely unscrew it to separate them. 

There are huge controls on the again of the sunshine which can be straightforward to seek out and use with out wanting. The Glow has 5 ranges of brightness in addition to 5 coloration temperatures to select from. Plug the sunshine in, flip it on, alter the sunshine to your wants and also you’re good to start out streaming. It may be powered by your laptop or an exterior energy supply like a cellphone charger or energy financial institution. Nevertheless, in case you plug it into your laptop, you’ll be able to unlock extra options with Logitech’s G Hub app. 

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G Hub is the app used for Logitech’s G gaming keyboards, mice, audio system, headsets and webcams. Plug within the Litra Glow and G Hub will acknowledge and add it to your listing of units. Choose it and you may manually change brightness and coloration temps with sliders. If in case you have one or a number of cameras related to your laptop, the app has a drop-down menu to pick out and preview the image from every digital camera. 

Logitech included a handful of presets for coloration and brightness to experiment with totally different seems. The app additionally makes it doable to create presets in case you land on a combo you actually like. Plus, when you’ve got a Logitech G keyboard or mouse, you’ll be able to assign controls for the sunshine to buttons. That means you’ll be able to activate the Glow and choose the suitable lighting with out opening the app or touching the sunshine itself. 

The Litra Glow’s LEDs cowl a coloration temperature vary from 2,700 to six,500 Kelvin and have a most output of 250 lumen, which Logitech says is optimized for desktop streaming. The sunshine makes use of Logitech’s TrueSoft expertise designed for full-spectrum mild with cinematic coloration accuracy and the Glow has a Shade Rendering Index (CRI) rating of 93 out of 100.

The Glow does output loads of mild. Within the photos above, the preview video within the G Hub app on prime is with the Glow off. The underside is the preview with the Glow on and I am roughly three ft from the digital camera. And that is at about half energy. At full energy, it’s highly effective sufficient to mild up a lot of the room within the image. Nonetheless, Logitech says the sunshine is designed to be protected for all-day use and is UL verified to current no photobiological hazard at 12 hours of publicity. 

Good lighting for video is not straightforward to do with out some assist. Whether or not you are shrouded in shadows, backlit by a sunny window, blown out from brilliant overhead room lights or awash in picture noise from not having sufficient mild to your webcam, the Logitech Litra Glow can assist all of these conditions and extra. (Though, there’s solely a lot you are able to do to enhance the image high quality from a built-in laptop computer webcam so that you may contemplate bettering that individually.)