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The Panel Mini is the smallest LED panel that Lume Cube currently makes. They do make something called the LumeCube, but it’s not a full panel, more like a soft spot light.
To say I’m pleased with the Panel Mini would be an understatement. I can’t find anything to complain about with it. Being able to have a small, soft light that I can put on my Sony ZV-1 or position near a product to add some fill light is great.
The battery life is decent and and the Panel does a good job of indicating how much battery life you have left at your current brightness settings. Speaking of which, this panel, unlike some others I’ve used in the past, has a steady brightness output regardless of the color temperature. Some panels only reach their max brightness if you split the difference between color temperature extremes, thus turning on both the orange and white LEDs to their max at the same time. The Panel Mini doesn’t have this limitation.
I did run into a strange bug regarding this consistent brightness though that I’ll mention. If I start at 5600k at max brightness and lower the temperature all the way to 3400k (3200 is the lowest), the brightness output will stay the same. However, when I click down to 3300k, the max brightness drops. Then if I go up toward 5600k again, the panel will remain at this lowered max brightness all the way until 5400k when it will click back up to the higher max brightness again. Odd, but not worth complaining about.
Here are the rest of the specs:
1% - 100% brightness adjustability in 5% increments
3200k - 5600k color range in 100k increments
USB-C Charging
60 LEDs (30 white, 30 Orange)
1.2 hours on 100% brightness. 2.2 hours on 50% brightness. 14 hours on 1% brightness
Aluminum Body
2 1/4” threads
Weighs 3 oz