Mounted or hand-held : I found a lot light painting uses for the Panel MINI, just using the unit in my hand (more examples later this week.). Depressing the top power button for 3-seconds turns off the panel light. Color Temperature is adjustable by the same side wheel-lever from 5600K to 3200K in 100K unit increments. When the light brightness is set to 100%, the run time on a fully charged battery is 1.2 hours, 50% brightness run time is 2.2 hours, 20% brightness is 5.0 hours (shown), and 1% brightness (great for reading in your tent) is 18 hours! Full recharge time is 1.8 hours. A side wheel-lever (located between the "+" and "-") allows you to change the light intensity between 100% and 1%, in 5% increments. Depressing the power button momentarily toggles between power/light intensity and the color temperature. Holding down the top power button on the side for 3-seconds turns on the light. Out of the box, the Panel MINI has everything you need to get started: a slip-on silicon light softening diffuser, a USB-A to USB-C charging cable, a 1/4"/20 DSLR camera mount, and the MINI with a built-in rechargeable 1200mA Li-Polymer battery, housed in a strong aluminum body. And, at only $59.95, the Lume Cube Panel MINI is almost one-third the price of the larger Lume Cube Panel ($149.95). The Panel MINI can easily do the same at about 40% power, and with its ability to go down to as low as 1% power for close-distance accent lighting, this makes it a very versatile light for what I do. For many years, I've used the F&V Z96 panel lights at 10% power (about 50 LUX) for landscape foreground features that average about 100 to 150 feet away. You might think that 138 LUX is not a lot for serious photography lighting, but in my specialty of Low Level Landscape Lighting, that's plenty of power for most of my work. The specs say the 60 bi-color LEDs (30 5600K and 30 3200K) will put out 138 LUX 1 meter (although my light meter measurement came in slightly under that, at 120 LUX), which is a little more than one-third the output of its big brother, who comes in at 400 LUX (and my meter confirmed that), using 120 bi-color LEDs. For such a small package, it puts out a lot of light. The Lume Cube Panel MINI's performance is what impressed me most.
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