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It had been I don't know how many years since I tried the Lume Cube app (now called Lume-X) on a phone, but rest assured, it's still as terrible as it ever was.

Ok terrible isn't terribly descriptive in itself. It's still just a terribly restrictive experience using it. To use the cube as a flash it has to be used in-app where the camera is stripped of all but one most basic ability (one auto shot at a time). The only option to use the cube outside of the app is in trigger mode, which meant (to keep my words as few as possible) that I couldn't do what I wanted to do, at least not with my phone and I was too lazy to get other gears out...

(And fyi, the exposure exif info below isn't accurate... Not that you'd bother looking at it, but just another terrible aspect since the lume cube app did something to the exif info of the files to make the headers unreadable by the gallery software. So I just copied the exif info over from yesterday's Charlie shot so I could get on with things...)
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Camera
LG V40
EXIF software
GIMP 2.10.8
EXIF Metadata
LG V40
f/1.5
4 mm
1/60 s
50
0.5 EV
Model
LG V40
Date Time of Original
2019:04:06 18:18:31
Aperture Number
1.5
Exposure compensation
0.5 EV
Exposure Time
1/60 s
ISO
50
Focal Length
4 mm
Focal Length in 35mm Film
25 mm
Exposure Mode
auto
Exposure Metering Mode
averaged center
Exposure Program
not defined
EXIF software
GIMP 2.10.8
Peter Moore - Wednesday 10 April 2019 21:58
Your cat looks almost as enthused as you were. Even with all those problems, I still like the shot.
savoche - Monday 8 April 2019 15:52
Enlightening! I haven't even tried using the cube with my phone. The app hasn't really inspired me to use it much at all... Which is a shame. It's a nice piece of hardware. But the only way I use it involves ~20 clicks - first 10 to go via max back to off, then count more carefully on the next round!
ozozozrod - Monday 8 April 2019 05:22
What a nightmare. I've never tried to use my cubes other than as stand-alone constant light sources and they serve me well in that regard. When I first got them they did work as slave strobes fired by the camera flash but that was a novelty I've not pursued. A nice blue light though to complement Neo's fur tones, although I refer the next shot along.
Graeme - Monday 8 April 2019 05:05
Nice idea with the shot.
Good hardware is so often let down by mediocre(at best) software, it always seems to be an afterthought no one really cares about.