The Best On-Camera LED Light

If you squint hard, you'll see the price tag - $250.00 CAN. It's not the most robust thing - kind of plastic feeling - it probably wouldn't last long if I used it on a daily basis. But the price is right. I'll be using it on a real shoot on Tuesday, but I think it'll do for what I need it for - just a fill light for ambient lit interviews or quick interviews in a dark room at an event. I'm going to buy a cheap light stand and maybe see how it looks off-camera - for a quick and dirty key light.
 
The color temperature control. is it a single control that goes from warm to cool with a separate dimmer control, or does it have 2 separate color controls without a dedicated dimmer ? sorry for too many questions.
 
Try 312A LED Video Light from COOLLCD.com
Very cheap, pretty decent color and tremendous output for the money. Well made I think.
I prefer all daylight LED's to the dial in color because

1 You never know for sure what your color is on the dial ins so is hard to match to other lights or a camera's Kelvin
2 You need the most output usually when you are under daylight, so why not go all daylight and have a set of 1/8 top 1/2 CTO's to put over the light under warfmer light.
- You'll alkways know exactly what your color temp is.
- You'll have twice as much daylight output
- You'll have only a little less full CTO output and probably the same or more at 1/2
 
this is a knock off of the comer output only 1200 lux not 1800 lux. also color temperature is 5600 k not 4500 k. I
 
The original Neewer/Flashpoint CN-160 LED was on sale for $25 today. Worth it, or better to spend the $20 extra and get the 2nd generation / TTV-160 with the stackability and improved filter attachment method?
 
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The Bolt costs over 4X as much. On the Bolt when you dim a predetermined color setting, for example 3650K and wish to keep THAT setting within the dimming range, you will have to re white balance at every dim level. Not too smart.
 
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