Weeylite K21
The Weeelite K21 RGB Light Stick is as the name says simply a stick of light. Not much to report here I thought – it is just a stick of light, but it has a few tricks up its sleeve that won me over after working with it for a few hours.
The Weeylite K21 gives around 8W of light, and back in the day when we had incandescent lamps, this is equivalent of around 75W of light. So it does give a significant amount of light, but of course it is not enough to light up a large studio or the like. But it will be more than enough if you make Youtube videos and want some light close to your face or want it to light up the background to make it more interesting. I have also used the Weeylite for product shoots, where it is brilliant to backlight a product, as the stick is easy to hide.
Not much, or?
When you see the product, it does not look like much – it is just a stick of light, where the light (ends excluded) is approximately 25 centimeters long.
But the first thing I notices when unpacking it was the threads in both ends, making it possible to mount the light on a tripod or the like. And even better, the Weeylite K21 is also magnetic(!) so you can mount it on many surfaces with or made of metal.
That is a brilliant little detail, that I only found out by studying the manual. And the manual is short and sweet, just like I like them. And easy to understand. In fact, it is not a manual, more a large piece of paper.
Interface
The Weeylite holds a battery, so you don’t need to worry about cables or the like when you shoot. And I was glad to see that it charges via USB-C, the new EU standard – brilliant!
The interface is very simple: A small LCD screen and 4 buttons. You can of course control the strength of the light between 100% down to 1%, and the color temperature. The four buttons work well and my only complaint is that it would have been nice had the buttons been backlit, as I often work in the dark when applying the light from the Weeylite.
But here is the thing that really won me over with this little product: the app. It is simply brilliant – and you can of course see all the settings on your smartphone via the app, also in the dark. The app is so good that I hardly ever use the buttons on the Weeylite K21 itself.
First, the app connected to the Weeylite K21 without me doing anything but downloading the app! Not sure how that works, but it did. And then you can control several lights is channels and groups, just like you know it if you have worked with wireless flashes – brilliant!
And the app gives you so many options for controlling the light that it is a bit crazy. It has pre-set effects like weld, candlelight, flame, TV, weld etc, and you can also configure the lights Kelvin value, saturation, brightness and individual color channels, just to mention a few. It is very impressive. And of course you can turn on and off the light via the flash.
Conclusion
If you are in the market for a small light that you can use for videos or product shoots, then I think you should really consider the Weeylite K21.
It is compact, gives a lot of light, easy to mount via either threads or magnetism and the app to control it is simply brilliant and gives so many options that I think even the most demanding will find their requirements are met.
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