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The Canvas, a Lamp Designed for Recording Your Sketching with a Smartphone

By Rain Noe - March 19

in Lighting

This Canvas lamp is designed specifically to illuminate your worksurface as you sketch or render, while holding your smartphone in the lamp's dedicated cradle to record your work.

"Canvas is meant to replace $5,000+ in gear - but also to reclaim coveted real estate in your workspace," the company, also called Canvas, writes.

The spring-loaded phone clamp will fit any phone, and rotates on a ring. The 1,200-lumen LED is dimmable and can be set at one of three temperatures: 2700K, 4400K and 6000K.

The $118 base model of the lamp comes only with a clamp mount...

...but it can be upgraded to a weighted base in wood ($66-$80), metal ($54) or even marble ($98). Additionally, a MagSafe mount is available for $34.

Apparently these are batch-produced; at press time they were sold out of most models, but taking pre-orders for a new batch scheduled to arrive this month.

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Dee An

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I'm sure it will work as intended, that is until the user wants to use their phone for another purpose, such as taking a call or changing a music track.* This would disturb the video.
This could be avoided if the lamp wasn't an Anglepoise style. Perhaps a bar and clamp system of adjustment, like a chemist's retort stand, could be used.
*Yeah yeah, I know: some users can just use their smartwatch to perform these functions.

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