Bright light. I have a dark skin so having a bright light source for video recording is important. This one can be clipped onto the laptop screen and illuminates your face. It also comes with a stand. Only downside- does not have its own plug so if you have a couple of these lights and a mic and something else plugged into the laptop you may run out of USB sockets. Solution- USB adapter.

I needed a light to go with my webcam and chose this as I liked the flexibility of having a tripod as well as a separate clamp to fix on top of the monitor. The lamp has natural and other light types which allows you to choose whatever works best with your skin colour. You can also dim the loght as required with the built in on/ff and dimmer switch built into the lead.

Super easy to install and use.

This ring light is amazing! I bought it for work as I am always on video calls. My room is quite dark naturally so when I am on camera I always used to look grainy and dull but with this ring light I look way better. There is a power on button, with the ring light offering 3 different tones of light which you adjust with the mode button, and also 2 other control buttons to adjust the brightness of each tone of light. Very straight forward and easy to use at an affordable price that is actually good quality! Comes with a mini tripod but also a separate clip on component so you can slot it easy on your laptop over the camera. Would highly recommend

Purchased to assist with the darker days as working from home on conferences.

Easy to asseemble, plug and play.

Makes a huge difference and my customers noticed the difference.

Would not be without this now, I even catch the other half using it to apply her makeup.

With the nights drawing in I realised that we could do with some lighting for the webcam. This was an Amazon choice and the reviews seemed good so I won't repeat a lot of the reviews. The ability to vary the strength of the lighting was great and when you change the colour to yellow it seems too much but it adds a great soft tint to the image. The tripod is useful as you can then use the light it to illuminate the keyboard on a laptop without having to have the room lights on. A very useful device

The thing with a video light is that you will need to adjust it to the light conditions at the time you are recording or presenting and this easily adjustable bit of kit does the job well.
Plenty of easy adjustment with easy to follow buttons for brightness and 3 light modes gives you all you need.
Love the little springy/bendy adjustable stand and it also has a laptop clip for those that prefer that. Personally I preferred the stand as you can move it around to suit.
Quality wise it feels very light and I think it should just be a little heavier.
To summarise this Video Light gives great results and is a versatile much needed bit of kit.

I was sceptical that this would work.
However, I have a multiple monitor setup on my laptop which is located in such a position that video calls suffer from backlighting coming from a window opposite. This often meant that the video was in silhouette.
The simple addition of this light has totally transformed the image.

The kit comes with two mounting options - a clip that fits nicely onto the frame of a laptop screen and a more traditional little tripod.
That makes the light useful for other scenarios too - although I doubt I'll ever use it for anything else.

Overall, this was a great purchase for my particular use case.

I didn't really think I'd need this at first but having been in video calls in the evenings, I wanted to check it out. The light is really bright, really helpful for the video calls. It is also soft on the face not like hard un-natural light.
The mounting clip along with a small tripod so I could place it on the table or clip it over the laptop as required.
The option to have set colour mode is great - option to have white or warm tones, also was pretty easy to change as and when required.
Definitely recommended for someone who uses video calls for work or personal communication.

I bought this Ruyilam Ring Light as it was recommended to me along with a webcam.
It's very easy to use, and works right out of the box - no issues with USB2 or 3 ports at all.
There is plenty of cable, with a control panel in the centre, housing very intuitive user-friendly buttons.
There are three modes or 'colours' - a default brilliant light, a warm light and a normal enough light. Each mode can be adjusted up to ten times I think, so you can have it really low or really bright or somewhere in between.
I teach a lot online so it is a brilliant addition to any situation involving a webcam and online conferencing or whatever.
In the first photo above the light is clipped on to my laptop which is a fairly normal scenario. Next, there is a photo of how it clips on to the screen. The clip is not quite wide enough for a desktop computer screen and may spring off due to strain if it fits at all. I suppose it is designed more for laptops, although it does come with a very convenient tripod, so it doesn't always have to be fitted onto a screen.
In the other photos above, from left to right, there is a picture with no light, warm light, normal light and lastly the brilliant light. I'm sure it would be easy to get a little bit creative with positioning too.
I would highly recommend this device as it is reasonably priced and it is actually very helpful in providing a lighting solution that you may not have even realised was an issue. Very nice indeed.

It can be a pain in the neck getting the lighting right for Zoom meetings etc, and this brilliant light enables studio-quality Zooming instead of sitting in the gloom. You can choose from three different light colours and fade up and down between ten light intensities, all controlled easily from a four-button switch. The only drawback that I can see is that if you wear glasses, you probably already have problems with reflections from the screen, and the light just adds to that. The light is the shape of a ring doughnut, so if the frames of your glasses reflect the light from the laptop screen, that reflection will now have a small circle in each lens, which looks a bit weird. That said, you can play around with positioning. The light clips neatly on to the top of the laptop but there is also a mini-tripod, so with any luck you can achieve the needed light without the pesky reflection. There is a decent length of cable, so positioning is very flexile. And there’s more to life than Zoom - this light will come in handy for anything where a burst of local light is what you need.