Hey there.
Today I'm looking at the Lume Cube Panel Pro 2.0.
But to be completely transparent, Lume Cube sent me the light,
but they haven't asked me to make this video,
nor have they any control over the content.
Well, here it is.
An upgrade to the original panel pro that was infused back in 2020.
In the box you get the Lume Cube
RGB Panel Pro 2.0, including a white diffuser lens
that clips onto the light and it's already fitted.
There's a braided USB charging cable.
A 1/4-inch 20 cold shoe camera mount.
A cloth travel pouch with drawstring.
And finally, a card with QR codes
to download the Lume Control mobile app.
So what's new and exciting about version 2 of the Panel Pro?
Well, compared to the original, it's 11% brighter in bi-color mode
and a whopping 400% brighter in RGB mode.
You also get 20% more battery life and the color temperature range has doubled.
It now goes down to a warm 2700 kelvin
and up to a cool white 7500 kelvin.
Behind a frosted cover there are 204 LEDs with a CRI of 96.
That means colors are rendered more accurately.
You can also adjust the green-magenta tint.
For added durability the body is made from metal.
That helps to make the light drop proof.
But the final change can help you shoot for longer.
The light can also act as a power bank and can be used to charge your phone
or camera, which is also a feature available on the Lume Cube Ring Light Pro.
I've recorded a video review about that and I'll put a link in the corner
if you want to watch it. Although not new.
Bluetooth wireless control from your phone is also included.
The panel Pro 2.0 is about six inches wide
by three inches tall and 0.4 inches thick.
That's similar to my Samsung A53 5G phone.
All the controls are on the right side beside the LCD screen.
The blue mode button toggles between the menu items.
Just below that, there's the adjustment dial
to change selections or values.
The final control is the power switch.
Up for on and down for off.
And right at the bottom there's a USB port, that's for charging the light
or for charging other devices when you're using the light as a power bank.
So let's turn it on.
After a slight delay, the light turns on and it's surprisingly bright for its size.
You'll also notice that the LCD screen on the back comes to life
At the top there's an estimate of the remaining battery power
and below that, in yellow, there's the current mode, either
bi-color that’s CCT/FX, or RGB,
which is HSL/SET In CCT/FX mode
You can change the brightness color temperature and green-magenta tint.
Scene and frequency refer to the preprogramed effects,
which I'll come back to later.
When you change to HSL stroke set mode, you'll be changing the light
according to brightness, color and saturation.
This is also where you can toggle Bluetooth on and off.
While you can easily make these adjustments on the light, when I'm
filming myself, I like to use the Lume Control app on my smartphone.
That's because it saves time,
because I can immediately see the results as I change the settings.
Whereas if I was using the controls on the light,
I would have to make the change, go sit down, take a test shot,
then go back and check it on the To download the app,
scan the QR code on the card that comes in the box.
Then fire up the app Make sure that your light is turned on
and the Bluetooth is enabled on the light and your phone.
Then pair the lights with your phone using the Lume Control app.
Tap Bluetooth Pairing, then look for the device in the Available Devices list.
To the right of the device name tap on the light icon
and your phone and light will connect.
You can now control the light from your phone, but of course
you can still use the controls on the side of the panel pro 2.0.
You can use the included cold shoe camera mount to mount the light on your camera.
It screws into one of the three threaded 1/4-inch
20 mounting holes on the side of the light.
Then slide the cold shoe plate into the camera's hot shoe.
Finally tighten everything with the two
locking thumbscrews But here's a quick tip for you.
Get a speed light stand like this one.
Put the mount onto the light and then slip the plate
into the speed light stand and tighten up the thumb screw.
And now the light won't fall over on a flat surface or table top.
Now, if you need to tell the light, that's all,
then what I would do is get a phone holder like this one from Ulanzi.
It's got a cold shoe plate at the bottom so you can mount it on your camera
or on the speed light stand,
and then you can tilt it forwards or tilt it backwards.
However you need.
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Now, what does footage look like that's been lit with the Panel Pro 2.0?
I recorded a sequence last night in my garden in total darkness.
The light was mounted on my Canon R6 camera.
I used a 35 millimeter f 1.8 lens,
and an ISO of 800, and I was 6ft from the camera and light,
which is probably a little bit more than you would do in a vlog.
At the moment I'm using a color temperature of 5600 kelvin,
which is daylight, but because this is an RGB light
and because I can control all the
the light and the color from the app, we can do things like this.
So now there's a color wheel in the middle of the app
so you can actually roll your finger around that color wheel
and the color of the light will change accordingly.
But you also have a preset, there’s
a red, green, blue and yellow preset.
So here's the red.
Now onto the green
and onto the blue
and finally the yellow.
Before I go inside, I want to show you another feature
that you've got on the Panel Pro 2.0, and that's the preprogrammed effects.
There's several of them and you can control them from the back of the light
or from the Lume control app on your phone. So
this at the moment is a 5600
kelvin color temperature light, so that's daylight.
But what I'll now do is I'll select loop.
And what loop does is
it loops through all the different colors available on the light.
So you can chill out to a lovely color scheme or just put it in
the background, pointed to a wall
and those colors will cycle through.
So quite a nice effect to have going on in the background.
After that you've got the strobe effect and you can change the frequency
of the strobe from one flash a second to ten flashes a second.
Now I'll move on to the lightning effect.
And this is meant to simulate a lightning.
Out here in the total dark I'm
going to go from being lit up to completely dark.
I’ll now move on to the fire effect
and the color gradually changes and that will randomly changes.
There's reds and orange and yellows in there.
And this really is meant to simulate
me being in front of an open fire.
Now, at the moment, because I want you to be able to see me
clearly, I've got the light far too high up for this effect.
You'd have it lower down.
The next one is candle, and this is meant to be
what a candle would look like Now this is far too bright
for a candle, so you'd need to bring the brightness down.
After that, you have got Siren, which is
emergency vehicles.
I'm not going to have this on for very long,
but they go and then finally you've got the TV.
So this simulates me sitting in front of the television
and the brightness from the television will vary.
And again, you'd probably take the brightness down
and then periodically in a random fashion,
the brightness will also change.
So those are the pre programed effects that you've got on this light.
If you
use a camera or phone that can be charged while shooting video.
The Panel Pro 2.0 has a neat feature.
The 4000 mAh capacity battery
can also function as a power bank, as I've already mentioned.
So if your phone or camera can be charged while recording
that means you can shoot for longer.
Which brings me to the battery life.
At 50% brightness, you'll get up to about 4 hours
and at 100% you will get around 2 hours of use.
Although there's the usual battery indicator icon on the LCD display,
the remaining time is also displayed with the time
intelligently adapting to any changes that you make to the power settings.
You charge the light using the USB-C port.
In my test it took an average of one hour,
48 minutes to fully charge the battery
I've already shown you how you can use the LUME Control app
to control the color temperature and brightness or fine tune
the hue brightness and saturation in RGB mode.
But I also wanted to mention an interesting feature of the app
that might not immediately be obvious, and that's
color matching Tap on the color picker in the app
that's just below the color wheel and just on the left.
Then point your camera phone at a part in the scene
that you want to match the color of and then tap on Pick Color.
The camera window on the phone will turn to that color,
as will the color of the light.
So that's a neat way of getting your lighting to match the scene.
Now, let me show you some images where I used this light.
For a change from seeing me, I'm going to be using a bust of William
Shakespeare as my subject.
First, here's an image with
the light on my camera, and it's typical of a vlogging shot.
But you can use this light to be more creative with your lighting.
For instance, you can place it above and behind the subject as a Rim light.
Or have it at the side to create a split lighting effect.
You can place it directly above the subject as a top light.
And remember, it's an RGB light.
Here, I've got some daylight coming in from the window
that's on the right and beside the camera.
But I've added a color accent from the left side.
You can choose any color that you want,
such as this pink
So the Lume Cube Panel Pro 2.0 is a versatile creator tool.
You can use it in so many different ways from a main on camera light
to adding loads of creative touches, including those preprogrammed effects.
I also love that although it's bright, it's small enough to slip into a pocket,
so I always have a light to improve my on-the-go videos.
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