What’s a COB light anyway? For the uninitiated, it’s a ‘chip-on-board’ light based on an array of many LEDs, all built onto a single substrate with a coating over the top. This one joins a growing family of Lume Cube lighting products for stills and video. I’ve been dazzled (in a good way) by the Lume Cube Ring Light Pro, highly impressed with the pocketable Lume Cube RGB Panel Pro 2.0 and have enjoyed the very affordable Lume Cube VC-Lite for Zoom meetings and the like. Thanks to some stylish and clever design work, good attention to detail and high-end build quality, the Lume Cube XL is a neat little monolight that offers a smart alternative to the best LED light panels.
