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Introducing the ProdMod Night Vlogger 160!

The following project is a neat way to make your own high powered video light to attach to your digital camera or camcorder. I called it the NightVlogger 160 after I read the term on this article of someone willing to use this type of light to allow him to take paparazzi style video at night. Vloggerazzi if you will. At 160 lumen it is very bright, in fact it is brighter than a 10W Halogen! It also fits in a slim AAA battery holder using only 3 AAA batteries. It projects a wide angle flood as opposed to a focused spotlight so you don’t have to zoom in to avoid the dark circle effect.
If you have followed my previous camera light projects you might have guessed this was the logical next step. I have made a 1W LED camera light before without showing you the details, but I think this latest one is a little easier to assemble and uses a very powerful yet very small Endor Rebel from luxeon to produce 160 lumens of light at 700mA.  I also swapped the battery holder switch with a 3 position switch so that I can have two brightness levels, Low and High.

First take a look at this video to see what it can do and then lets discuss the How To.

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I made some improvements to my ProdMod Camera Light a while back but never got around to writing about it. Mainly I added a 1W LED in place of the 4 standard LEDs. And I added nut coupling which allows me to use the light with a camera and tripod simultaneously, as well as use a bracket to place the light off to the side. Here are some photos to give you a taste. If you want more assembly info just leave a comment below.

A picture taken with the 1W ProdMod Camera Light

The bracket below lets you move the light source over to one side

The picture below shows the effect of side lighting

Here is a video of the 1W LED Camera Light in a bathroom.
You’ll notice it fills more of the screen with light than the original 4LED Camera Light.

ProdMod 1W LED Camera Light - Bathroom from ProdMod on Vimeo.

here is a video of the standard 4LED Camera Light for comparison.

ProdMod 4LED Camera Light - Bathroom from ProdMod on Vimeo.

I am selling packs of LEDs for those of you who want to customize their hoops or use them for other projects. You can see what colors are offered on the accessories page.

This includes LEDs used in the LED Camera Light Kit.