Upgrade your iPhone’s weak flash with this adjustable MagSafe light

Harlowe’s Sol 5 is simply a three-inch extending airy that attaches to the MagSafe equine connected your iPhone to amended the prime of your photos and selfies. It’s disposable now for $79 oregon for $159 arsenic part of a question kit that includes a softbox diffuser to assistance trim harsh shadows.

The Sol 5 isn’t a caller idea. When the iPhone 12 debuted with MagSafe it opened the flood gates for caller accessories including akin lights that could stay attached to the backmost of the phone — acceptable to amended a photograph astatine a moment’s notice. What the Sol 5 appears to bash amended is connection much flexibility and control.

The Sol 5’s glowing puck is connected to its magnetic equine with a abbreviated limb that extends its scope and lets it swivel 180 degrees and space arsenic needed. That allows the Sol 5 to beryllium utilized arsenic an indirect airy root arsenic well, softening its effect by bouncing it disconnected different adjacent surface. But it doesn’t request to beryllium stuck to an iPhone. It tin besides beryllium utilized arsenic a standalone airy source, oregon adjacent a flashlight that acold outperforms what the iPhone’s LEDs are susceptible of.

In modular mode, the Sol 5 projects 200 lumens of light, but it besides has a impermanent boost mode that volition summation its output to 360 lumens for 30 seconds. Its brightness tin beryllium further adjusted utilizing 1 of 2 dial controls. The different allows the Sol 5’s colour somesthesia to beryllium adjusted betwixt 2,700K (warmer) and 6,500K (cooler) tints.

Horlowe claims the Sol 5’s built-in 1,000mAh rechargeable artillery volition support it moving astatine afloat brightness for an hr and 24 minutes, but predominant usage of that boost mode volition trim that runtime.

The Sol 5’s softbox accessory tin beryllium purchased extracurricular of the aforementioned question kit (which includes a much robust lawsuit for everything) for $39. It attaches magnetically to the airy to adjacent retired its illumination, which Harlowe says makes it perfect for “portrait, beauty, oregon close-up shots wherever softer lighting enhances the subject’s appearance.” The softbox besides includes an further diffusion sheet that tin beryllium attached to further soften the Sol 5’s output.