Harlowe's Sol 5 is a three-inch extendable gentle that attaches to your iPhone's MagSafe mount to boost your images and selfies. It's accessible now for $79, or for $159 as a part of a journey equipment that features a softbox diffuser to assist scale back harsh shadows.
Sol 5's Shining Puck it’s related to its magnetic mount with a brief arm that extends its attain and permits it to rotate 180 levels and angle as wanted. This enables Sol 5 to even be used as an oblique gentle supply, softening its impact by casting it onto one other close by floor. However it doesn't need to be glued to an iPhone. It may also be used as a stand-alone gentle supply or perhaps a flashlight that goes far past what the iPhone's LEDs are able to.
In normal mode, the Sol 5 initiatives 200 lumens of sunshine, however it additionally has a short lived enhance mode that may enhance its output to 360 lumens for 30 seconds. Its brightness might be additional adjusted utilizing one of many two dial controls. The opposite permits the Sol 5's shade temperature to be adjusted between 2,700Okay (hotter) and 6,500Okay (cooler).
Horlowe claims that the Sol 5's built-in 1,000mAh rechargeable battery will preserve it working at full brightness for an hour and 24 minutes, however frequent use of this enhance mode will scale back runtime.
The Sol 5's softbox accent might be bought exterior of the aforementioned journey equipment (which features a sturdier case for the whole lot) for $39. It magnetically attaches to the sunshine to even out its lighting, which Harlowe says makes it superb for “portrait, magnificence or close-up photographs the place decrease lighting enhances the look of the topic.” The softbox additionally consists of an extra diffusion panel that may be connected to additional soften the Sol 5's output.