Lowel EGO Digital Imaging, Tabletop Fluorescent Light Unit

by Lowel

• Lowel Ego makes beautiful tabletop pictures a breeze to light.
• With no prior experience, you can quickly & easily create professional results. Shoot pictures that have depth, subtlety of shading, and character.
• Perfect for: Tabletop photos for collectors & sellers. Video talking heads & portraits. Webcam light.
• Easy to use, set it on the table, & plug it in.
• Works with any household 120 volt outlet.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10 x 20 x 20 inches ; 4.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0009K50RO
• Item model number: LOWEE110
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

Now anyone can create great looking professional results in their home. Lowel, the Academy Award winning world leader in location lighting for film & video, introduces a revolutionary tabletop fluorescent softlight, the elegant & easy touse Lowel Ego. Setup is a breeze, plug it in, place it on the table, & turn it on. The result is fast, simple, & beautiful light output that's ideal for taking digital tabletop shots by collectors, arts & crafts hobbiests, sellers, archivists, and desktop publishers. Ego can also be used for DV talking head shots, digital still portraits, and webcam desktop video conferencing. Lowel Ego uses two 27 Watt custom daylight fluorescent lamps. These screw-in lamps have a manufacturers listed average life of 5,000 10,000 hours. Their daylight color output has a high color rendering index, for more accurate colors than conventional fluorescent lamps.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Ok light, cheap construction!! June 17, 2009

By SJS

These lights are good for basic photography, but they are very poorly crafted and are worth probably a third of their actual price. First, their outer casing are made of cheap plastic, and you have to bend the plastic creases to get them to fit the internal light fixture. The whole thing feels flimsy and cheap.

Then two weeks after I received them, one just stopped working. The fixture had fried, and new light bulbs wouldn't work. Currently working on getting a replacement.

Overall: decent lighting at highway robbery prices!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Really enhances food photos August 27, 2009

By Stephanie Manley TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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This lamp is actually recommended by several food bloggers. This helps so much with the lighting, I also love that they include a piece of white reflective cardboard to help you bend and move the light as you desire. My one complaint about this lighting system is that is feels cheap. It is cardboard and plastic. With light use this should last me a few years. It works wonderfully, but with the materials that this is made out of, I just feel like I overpaid.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for food blogging June 14, 2009

By Ninette Enrique

I'm not a professional photographer but a food blogger who needed a clean light to take good pictures. Another food blogger recommended it, and I bought it with very good results. If you want to see how pics look with the light, go to [...]. I highly recommend it.