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Light painting tools war: PixelStick Vs Magilight

Oct 16, 2018 by Udi Tirosh 3 Comments

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A few years back I heard of an interesting photography device. The Pixel Stick. It is a light painting tool that can “paint” images in the air based on jpgs. When it was launched, there was nothing quite like it in the market, and it made $600,000 on Kickstarter, which was very impressive for the time. The Pixel stick was a one of a kind for a very long time, but about a year ago, a similar contraption came to the market, The Magilight. Like the Pixelstick it was launched via crowdfunding and made just over half a mil. We took both tools to the desert for head to head test. Here are our thoughts:

If you were wondering what the Pixelstick or magi light are, they are tools that can draw an image in the air (or just splash colored lights). You can use that functionality to create fun things like this:

Here is a quick animation showing how it was made:

Check out some of the images that we took with those tools, watch the video, for comparison and let us know which one you like better:

Pixelstick

Magilight

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About Udi Tirosh

Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.

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