What it comes to Ten dollars for the joint-highest color index on this shelf — CRI 97+, level with a NEEWER panel costing four times as much — plus a clip, a hot shoe, a quarter-inch head, a rotating panel and a pouch. Two runtimes at two stated brightnesses make it the most informative power statement here. It publishes no output figure at all, dims in ten steps, and sixty beads will light a face and nothing beyond it.
What the maker commits to in print
“The high CRI of 97+ is equal to a professional photography lighting to create your favorite light effects to complement your skin glowing”
Three light modes — white, natural and warm — from 2500K to 6500K, with sixty LED beads and ten brightness levels
A 160-degree rotation adjustable LED panel, and an adapter with a ¼-inch thread on a 180-degree rotatable head, with a hot shoe mount included
“Lasts about 15 hours of light at 10% brightness, Lasts 4 hours of light at 50% brightness” from a 2,200 mAh battery
95 g (3.4 oz), 3.9 × 2.8 × 0.78 in, with a clip, a USB-C cable, a ¼-inch nut adapter, a hot shoe mount and a storage pouch
NO lux. NO lumens. NO wattage. Nothing about flicker. No TLCI.
Ninety-seven, for ten dollars
The joint highest index among the American lights on this shelf — level with the
NEEWER SL90C at four times the price, behind only the published Rollei’s 98.
“Read the color accuracy index before the output figure.”
Color accuracy is a property of the phosphor on the LED, not of the fixture, and
good phosphor stopped being expensive some years ago.
What ten dollars does not buy is output. Sixty small beads light a face at arm’s
length and nothing further, and this page publishes no figure for it at all.
So “equal to a professional photography lighting” is true of the color and not of
the power.
Two runtimes, at two brightnesses
Fifteen hours at ten per cent. Four hours at fifty.
Which is the most informative power statement on this shelf, because two points
show the shape of the curve: dropping brightness by a factor of five multiplies
the runtime by nearly four, not by five, because the electronics draw something
regardless.
From those two you can interpolate. Full brightness is probably near two hours;
twenty-five per cent near eight.
The ENEGON on this shelf claims twenty hours and names no brightness. That figure
cannot be used for anything.
Three modes instead of a dial
White, natural, warm.
A continuous 2500 to 6500 K range lets you match a mixed room exactly — a tungsten
lamp behind you, daylight through a window — which is worth money on location.
Three presets cannot. In exchange they cannot drift: yesterday’s setting is today’s
setting, and nobody nudges a dial between takes.
For a light clipped to a laptop lighting the same face in the same room, the
presets are the better arrangement.
Four ways to mount it
A clip, for a phone, a laptop or a bedside.
A panel that rotates 160 degrees on that clip, so the light can be aimed without
moving it.
A ¼-inch adapter on a 180-degree rotatable head.
And a hot shoe mount.
All supplied, with a pouch, at ninety-five grams — the second lightest light here.
Availability
About $10 on the American Amazon store when this page was last checked.
Everything in this section is the figure Keepa carried on the day of the last update to this page. Availability and prices shift without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 8 October 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
What it does well, and what it gives up
Strengths
CRI 97+, joint highest on this shelf
Ten dollars
Two runtimes at two stated brightnesses
A clip, a hot shoe, a 1/4 inch head and a pouch
A panel that rotates 160 degrees on its own mount
Ninety-five grams
Compromises
No output figure of any kind
Three fixed color modes rather than a range
Stepped dimming, ten levels
Nothing about flicker
Sixty beads: a face at arm’s length, no more
No TLCI
Specifications
Output in lux with its distance
NEITHER PUBLISHED. No lux, no lumens, no distance, no wattage — the page says "the high CRI of 97+ is equal to a professional photography lighting", which is a claim about accuracy rather than output. Sixty beads at this size is a fill light for a face at arm’s length, which is what the page describes it as: selfies, webcams, makeup, video calls
Color temperature range
THREE LIGHT MODES — WHITE, NATURAL and WARM — across 2500K TO 6500K, stated. Three fixed modes rather than a continuous range is the simpler arrangement: you cannot land on 4,300 K to match a mixed room, but you also cannot drift off a setting between takes. The span itself is 4,000 K, wider than the VIJIM’s 3,300 K and narrower than the ENEGON’s 7,400 K
Accuracy indices
CRI 97+, stated in the title and the first bullet with the argument made at length — "equal to a professional photography lighting … complement your skin glowing, natural even like a baby". Ninety-seven is the JOINT HIGHEST figure on this shelf among the American lights, level with the NEEWER SL90C which costs four times as much and with the NiceVeedi pair, and behind only the published Rollei’s 98. This shelf's buying tip says to read the index first; on this page it is the only photometric figure there is. No TLCI
Dimming
TEN BRIGHTNESS LEVELS, stated — stepped rather than stepless, and ten steps is enough for practical work. What the page does with them is better than the count: it publishes the runtime AT TWO of them, which lets the steps be understood as power rather than as numbers
Flicker
NOT MENTIONED
Power options
A 2,200 mAh cell with TWO RUNTIMES AT TWO STATED BRIGHTNESSES: about 15 HOURS at 10 PER CENT and 4 HOURS at 50 PER CENT. That is the most informative power statement on this shelf — two points on the curve rather than one, which shows the draw is not linear: halving from 50 to 10 per cent gives nearly four times the runtime. The ENEGON claims 20 hours with no brightness at all; this gives two conditions and lets you interpolate
Mount
THE MOST MOUNTING OPTIONS ON THIS SHELF FOR THE MONEY: a CLIP for a phone, a laptop or a bedside; a 160-DEGREE ROTATING LED PANEL so the light can be aimed without moving the clip; a ¼-INCH ADAPTER with a 180-DEGREE ROTATABLE HEAD; and a HOT SHOE MOUNT, all supplied, with a storage pouch. 3.9 × 2.8 × 0.78 in and 95 G — the second lightest light here behind the ULANZI VL-81
Amazon reference
B0C2C9QT91
EAN
0699838879720
What people ask before they commit
Can a ten-dollar light really be CRI 97?
Yes, because color accuracy is a property of the phosphor on the LED rather than of the fixture, and good phosphor is no longer expensive. What ten dollars does not buy is OUTPUT: sixty small beads will light a face at arm’s length and nothing further, and this page publishes no figure at all for it. So the right reading is that the index is genuine and the comparison the page makes — "equal to a professional photography lighting" — applies to the color and not to the power. For a webcam at fifty centimeters, that is the specification that matters and the only one you need.
Why are two runtimes better than one?
Because they show the shape of the curve. Fifteen hours at 10 per cent and 4 hours at 50 per cent means dropping the brightness by a factor of five multiplies the runtime by nearly four — not by five, because the electronics draw something regardless. With two points you can interpolate: full brightness is probably around two hours, and 25 per cent somewhere near eight. A single figure cannot be interpolated at all, and a figure with no brightness attached — the ENEGON’s twenty hours on this shelf — cannot be used for anything. Two points is the most any page here gives.
Three modes or a continuous range?
Three modes for a desk, a range for a set. A continuous 2500 to 6500 K dial lets you match a mixed room exactly — a tungsten lamp behind you and daylight through a window — which is worth real money on location. Three fixed presets cannot do that, and in exchange they cannot drift: the setting you used yesterday is the same setting today, and nobody nudges a dial between takes. For a light that lives clipped to a laptop and lights the same face in the same room, the presets are the better arrangement. The ENEGON’s 100 K increments are the opposite choice taken to its end.
Where this one places on its bench
At $10, it is the 1 cheapest of the 11 models in this category published here.
Cheapest on the bench$10
Median$30
Dearest on the bench$52
This one against the other photo equipment
photo equipment from the same category, at nearby prices. Only what all of them publish is shown: a column with holes compares nothing.
Model
Price
Output in lux with its distance
Color temperature range
Accuracy indices
Dimming
ALTSON D6-02-ES, CRI 97+, clip and tripod adapter
$10
NEITHER PUBLISHED. No lux, no lumens, no distance, no wattage — the page says "the high CRI of 97+ is equal to a professional photography lighting", which is a claim about accuracy rather than output. Sixty beads at this size is a fill light for a face at arm’s length, which is what the page describes it as: selfies, webcams, makeup, video calls
THREE LIGHT MODES — WHITE, NATURAL and WARM — across 2500K TO 6500K, stated. Three fixed modes rather than a continuous range is the simpler arrangement: you cannot land on 4,300 K to match a mixed room, but you also cannot drift off a setting between takes. The span itself is 4,000 K, wider than the VIJIM’s 3,300 K and narrower than the ENEGON’s 7,400 K
CRI 97+, stated in the title and the first bullet with the argument made at length — "equal to a professional photography lighting … complement your skin glowing, natural even like a baby". Ninety-seven is the JOINT HIGHEST figure on this shelf among the American lights, level with the NEEWER SL90C which costs four times as much and with the NiceVeedi pair, and behind only the published Rollei’s 98. This shelf's buying tip says to read the index first; on this page it is the only photometric figure there is. No TLCI
TEN BRIGHTNESS LEVELS, stated — stepped rather than stepless, and ten steps is enough for practical work. What the page does with them is better than the count: it publishes the runtime AT TWO of them, which lets the steps be understood as power rather than as numbers
NEITHER PUBLISHED, which is the odd part: its own stablemate the VL49 RGB on this shelf publishes 800 lux at 0.5 m (1.6 ft) from 60 beads, and this publishes nothing from 49. The two lights share a name and a body; one page gives the photometry and the other does not. Five of the nine American lights on this shelf publish no output at all
5500 K, FIXED — and this is the ONLY light on this shelf with no color adjustment of any kind. The page makes the case for it: 5500 K color temperature, stated to show the beauty of natural light. Fifty-five hundred kelvin is noon daylight, which is the right single value if you only ever shoot outdoors or in a daylight-balanced room, and the wrong one in a tungsten kitchen. What a fixed panel cannot do is drift: there is no dial to knock
CRI UP TO 95+, stated, with the consequence given — "to reduce post-grading work". Ninety-five is the shelf median. No TLCI
FIVE STEPS, AND ALL FIVE ARE NAMED: 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 PER CENT. Naming the steps is better practice than "five levels" and better than "dimmable": you know there is nothing below a fifth, and you know the gaps are even. It also means the light cannot be faded out on camera, and 20 per cent is the floor
800 LUX AT 0.5 M, stated, with a 120-DEGREE illumination angle also given — which matters because a wide beam spreads the same light over more area, so 800 lux across 120 degrees is a different proposition from 800 lux in a narrow spot. One of three outputs on this shelf published with its distance, and the beam angle is a figure only this and the published ULANZI K20 give
2500K TO 9000K, stated as dimmable rather than stepped — the SECOND WIDEST range on this shelf, behind only the ENEGON’s 2500–9900K and level with the published Rollei. Two and a half thousand kelvin is candlelight and nine thousand is deep shade; this shelf's introduction warns that a mixed panel usually peaks in the middle of its range, so the 800 lux figure is unlikely to hold at either end
CRI 95, stated as "topest CRI95" and credited with matching sunlight. That is the shelf median: 98 on the published Rollei, 97 on the NEEWER SL90C and the ALTSON, 96 on the published NEEWER pair, 95 here, on the published RaLeno and on three other American lights, 90+ on the Torjim pair, the EMART spotlights and the ULANZI K20, and nothing at all on the ENEGON alone. No TLCI
0 TO 100 PER CENT, stated, with a BUILT-IN LCD DISPLAY "for accurate readings". The display is the part worth noting: hue, brightness and color temperature shown as numbers rather than guessed from a dial, which is what lets a second light be set to match the first. Three lights on this shelf have a screen
NEITHER PUBLISHED. ULANZI says the VL-81 is "brighter, bigger angle" than the VL49 it upgrades, which is a comparison rather than a measurement, and gives no lux, no lumens, no distance and no wattage. Five of the nine American lights on this shelf publish no output at all, and this is one of them. This shelf's introduction makes it the first of three figures a continuous light is compared on
3200K TO 5600K, stated, from 41 WHITE and 40 WARM beads — and the DIVISION of the beads is published, which only this and the NEEWER SL90C do on this shelf. That matters because a bi-color panel reaches its extremes by turning one set off: at 3200 K the forty warm beads are working and the forty-one white ones are not, so the output at either end is roughly half what it is in the middle. This shelf's introduction says exactly this, and a page that publishes the counts lets you work out how much
CRI 95, stated in the title and the first bullet. The shelf median, behind the 97 of the NEEWER SL90C, the ALTSON and the NiceVeedi pair and the 98 of the published Rollei. No TLCI
NOT PUBLISHED AS A RANGE. The page says the color temperature "can be adjusted quickly" and names no brightness steps, no percentage range and no statement of whether the dimming is stepless or stepped — which is unusual for ULANZI, whose VL49 RGB on this shelf publishes 0 to 100 per cent and whose plain VL49 publishes five fixed levels. The runtimes imply a range exists: 150 minutes at maximum against 480 at minimum is a three-to-one draw
What sets the models apart, in photo equipment
If price decides: this model, at $10.
Highest Color temperature range in the table: ULANZI VL49, 5500 K fixed, 49 beads (5500 K, FIXED — and this is the ONLY light on this shelf with no color adjustment of any kind. The page makes the case for it: 5500 K color temperature, stated to show the beauty of natural light. Fifty-five hundred kelvin is noon daylight, which is the right single value if you only ever shoot outdoors or in a daylight-balanced room, and the wrong one in a tungsten kitchen. What a fixed panel cannot do is drift: there is no dial to knock).
Where the price stands, among photo equipment
Details checked on October 8, 2026.
What use this one answers, among photo equipment
Video calls, selfies and makeup at a desk, where a faithful color index at ten dollars is the whole point
What buyers actually choose
Amazon reports what buyers took in the month before this page was last checked: at least 10,000.
The figure is a floor, rounded by Amazon, and read through Keepa — it says what buyers picked, not what a maker claims.
Sources
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for photo equipment and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
TWO TABLE-TOP SPOTLIGHTS · 600 LUMENS each — a LUMINOUS FLUX, not an illuminance, so it cannot be compared with the lux figures on this shelf · 12 LEDs per light · CRI 90+, the joint weakest here · 5500 K FIXED, with SIX GEL FILTERS to shift it — two white, two orange, two blue · a head swivelling 180 DEGREES · a RETRACTABLE SPRING BRACKET that folds into the base · NO dimming published at all · NO battery · 18 MONTHS of after-sales cover · NOTHING about flicker
Two spotlights that publish lumens where this shelf asks for lux — and gels instead of a dimmer.
Best for: Lighting a light tent or a tabletop set-up from two sides, where a concentrated beam and a folding stand matter more than a dimmer
1090 LUX AT 0.5 M — one of only three outputs on this shelf published WITH its distance, and the highest among the pocket panels · 2700K to 7500K in CCT mode · CRI 97, joint highest here with the ALTSON D6 and the NiceVeedi pair · 138 beads: 45 WARM, 45 COOL and 48 RGB · THREE MODES, CCT, HSI and FX with 17 SCENES · 360-degree hue selection · STEPLESS 0 to 100 per cent · 4,000 mAh for 113 MINUTES at full, with a USB OUTPUT that charges a phone · 15 × 8 × 1.2 cm (5.9 × 3.1 × 0.5 in), 235 g · cold shoe adapter and 1/4 inch holes · NOTHING about flicker
The brightest pocket panel on this shelf that publishes its distance — and the only light here that will also charge your phone.
Best for: A pocket key or fill light where color accuracy comes first and the panel has to earn its place in the bag twice over
Two panels of 660 LEDs, 330 warm and 330 cool · 40 W each · 3300 lux at 1 m (3 ft) · 3200K to 5600K · CRI 96 or better · brightness 0 to 100 per cent · mains adapter supplied or NP-F550 and NP-F970 cells, not supplied · barn doors and U-brackets with 360 degree tilt · two stands from 66 to 190 cm (26 to 74.8 in) · panels 232 by 200 by 48 mm (1.89 in) · LCD screen · two carry bags
The only light of the four here that publishes an illuminance with its distance — 3300 lux at 1 m (3 ft) — as a pair of 660-LED panels with stands, barn doors and bags for 194 €.
Best for: A two-light setup for portraits, product work or streaming where the panels go on stands, the barn doors control spill, and a socket is available.
