Monitor Lights

A monitor light is a light used with a display. It may clip to the top of the monitor, stand beside it, or sit on the desk in front of it. Its jobs are twofold: to light the face of the person on a call, and to reduce the contrast between a bright screen and a dark room, which tires the eyes during long sessions.

The Z2 selfie light is the model described here for monitor use. It mounts in three ways and fits monitors as well as phones, laptops, computers, desks and cameras. Its colour temperature adjusts from 2600K to 6000K, it gives ten brightness steps, and it is USB powered and rechargeable. Those are the published facts; power, luminous flux, battery capacity and run time are not published for this model and are not stated here.

Positioning a monitor light is a small discipline. The light should sit above or beside the screen, aimed at the face, not at the screen itself, since light on the screen washes it out. If the light creates glare on glasses, moving it slightly to one side or lowering its brightness usually fixes it without changing anything else.

A monitor light is not a display, and this page does not describe any display product. The word monitor here means the screen the light works with, and the light itself is the product. Buyers looking for display equipment will not find it in this range, which covers lighting and audio accessories only.

For a buyer equipping a team for remote work, the questions to put in an inquiry are the number of workstations, the mounting style that suits the monitors in use, and whether a single model should be standardised across the team. Those answers decide the order better than any generic recommendation.