Elgato almost suffocates the streaming lighting space. Between the Ring Light, which is essentially the perfect tool to light up someone’s face, and a place to mount a camera, all of which can be added to the various panels that can add additional lighting options, Elgato continues to perfect and dominate. this space. But Logitech is finding its own piece of the pie, and it’s doing so with a new light bar system designed to both light up your face and your room while being incredibly easy to operate and settings. I’ve been testing this device, called the Logitech G Litra Beam LX, alongside my regular lighting system for about a month and have some different thoughts on what Logitech has done.
First, let’s be clear, Litra Beam LX is not a replacement for a proper lighting system. You can’t use this device without Ring Light because it simply doesn’t illuminate your face effectively in a balanced way. Why? This is partly because it’s a light bar, which means the light is all generated from a stretched pill shape, unlike the Ring Light, which is designed to illuminate your face and create a clean, balanced visual profile. Beyond that, it has less than a fifth of the lumens of the Ring Light (400 total here, compared to the Ring Light’s 2,500), so it severely lacks the ability to light up a dark room or offset bright environments.
But here’s the thing about Litra Beam LX, it’s not meant to solve your lighting problems. It’s an easy-to-set-up device with small proportions that can easily be plugged in anywhere on your desk and mounts a lighting system on either side of the beam, opening the door to face lighting and RGB room coloring. In these veins, Litra Beam LX achieves its goals. It’s a plug-and-play system (although you’ll need a spare plug socket to get power and a USB port on your PC to connect it), the controls on the device are effortless to use, and the color and lighting options are extensive.
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By flicking a small slider, you decide which side of the bar you want to change the lighting on, and from there you can double-press the physical buttons to adjust brightness, temperature, or RGB pattern and color. Likewise, you can easily turn off one of the lights while keeping the other one running. Litra Beam LX is indeed a very simple and straightforward system that can become more sophisticated when paired with Logitech G Hub software, which gives you more control over how the bar kicks off.
Size is also a huge benefit, as the Litra Beam LX is 500mm tall, 35mm wide, and 42mm deep, and weighs just under five pounds. This is a perfect system to mount on your desk, perhaps in the gap between two monitors, or tilted so that it peeks over the top of your monitor. Since you can mount poles in a variety of ways, whether horizontally or vertically, the setup choices are fruitful.
But, like many of Logitech’s latest products, one pitfall of the Litra Beam LX is undoubtedly its price tag. Today you can get the Elgato Ring Light with the included mounting system for around £140, but the Litra Beam LX is expected to retail for €159.99 for a lighting system that feels more niche and unusual Too expensive and not functional and reasonable. It’s not a bad lighting system, but it won’t be a single solution for broadcast lighting or room lighting. This is a quirky system for a very specific audience who want to add some flair to their desk space.
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