Logitech Litra Glow, the first product from a brand dedicated to content creators

You know the office and gamer products from Logitech, you will now have to rely on a range of accessories dedicated to content creators. The Litra Glow is a small LED panel that thus enriches the nascent catalog of Logitech For Creators products.

For a few years now, Logitech has made a few acquisitions that mark the manufacturer’s desire to strengthen its presence with players, but also with content creators. In 2018, the acquisition of Blue Microphones allows the firm to offer very good microphones like the Blue Yeti X tested in our columns. A year later, Logitech bought the streaming software Streamlabs, this time clearly addressing “Twitchers”. Now, the Swiss company has within its group an extension of its iconic brand, a new brand/division called “Logitech For Creators”. This now houses the first product created by this entity, namely the Litra Glow, born of another takeover, that of Litra, a manufacturer of small lighting. A product sold for 69 euros, which tries to justify its price with a few little tricks.

Litra Glow wants to improve the quality of your streams

Anyone who uses a webcam as a video capture tool for their streaming knows that the dynamic range and sensitivity of these are often a problem. Digital noise, hazardous white balance, derailed focusing are all technical weaknesses that the Litra Glow hopes to correct by providing the light necessary to relieve the very small sensor integrated in these products.

According to the manufacturer, the experience of the Litra brand has enabled it to create an LED panel composed of multiple layers which is responsible for diffusing a homogeneous and well diffused light so as not to create overexposed areas on portions of the face of the person in question. in front of the camera. And it is clear that it works. We have indeed received the product and it is true that the rendering is homogeneous with the image, but, above all, the diffuser at the front also makes it possible not to be inconvenienced by the LEDs that make up Litra Glow.

The light output is absolutely not in the record, but the 250 lumens available still offer enough to do. According to our findings, it is even more than enough for the use to which this small LED panel is dedicated.

Designed for use with a PC and some more

The Litra Glow is powered by a standard USB port (5V – 0.97A) which, good news, will also allow you to use it with an external battery if the need arises, or even to power it via the USB Type-C connector on your smartphone provided you have an adequate cable. Indeed, the one delivered by Logitech has a USB Type-A connector on one side and USB Type-C on the other. With our own cable, we were able to use the Litra Glow, powered by our Google Pixel 6.

Indeed, given the small size and weight of the panel (84 grams, 9 cm square and 2.5 cm thick), content creators might want to make their purchase profitable by also using it with a smartphone, or a camera and cage for on-the-go videos.

Under these conditions, however, it will be necessary to accessorize the thing which has truly been designed for home use. Indeed, the Litra Glow is literally perched on your monitor or laptop screen.

Note also that its design allows it to cling to a monitor whose maximum thickness should not exceed 6 cm. The image above also allows us to show you that the foot allows the torch to be raised by about ten centimeters. Added to this, of course, is the rotation and a tilt of approximately 45 degrees forwards and backwards.

As we said, if you want to take it with you and then use other supports, the Litra Glow has a standard thread. Online stores are full of accessories of all kinds that should allow you to find a mobile filming solution. There remains the problem of food that we mentioned above. Moreover, if Logitech has not integrated a battery in this version of the Litra Glow so as not to increase (even more) the price, it is not excluded that another version is equipped with it.

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Controllable from the PC

In addition to the maximum power of 320 lm, the Lita Glow naturally offers several levels of intensity, but also a temperature range which goes from 2,700 K to 6,500 K. That is, from a very warm rendering to a reference white which here again seems to us to be appropriate for use.

A few buttons are available on the back to make adjustments, but given they are not very accessible once the light is in place, Logitech has provided a few additional options.

The first is to use the house software “Logitech G Hub” which now includes all the manufacturer’s products. The Litra Glow is recognized there as a full-fledged device that can be controlled via software.

In addition to the manual settings, Logitech offers a few predefined modes (in English in our software interface) which intervene on the intensity and the temperature of the white. You can add your personal settings.

The images above allow you to compare the result in maximum and minimum brightness, knowing that the webcam used here is a Logitech StreamCam in Full HD mode.

And we must again welcome the fact that this lighting provides real support to the webcam, precisely, to produce a quality image and further improve the result when it comes to removing the background. Above, the excellent NVIDIA Broadcast software really delivers flawless results.

The icing on the cake, owners of the Logitech G-series keyboard will be able to use the dedicated shortcut keys to control the Litra Glow. We regret that these functions are not accessible to any keyboard with customizable shortcut keys, but we can understand that Logitech wants to bring a little something extra to its community of players.

Finally, as a reminder, the Litra Glow from Logitech For Creators is already available at a price of 69 euros.