The KODAK LUMA 150 is a very basic 480p portable pocket projector. It's designed to be small enough to fit in your pockets, and its integrated battery lets you take it with you easily. The LUMA 150 is capable of projecting images of up to 120". It's designed to quickly share media from your phone or mobile device over a wide selection of inputs, including USB, microSD, HDMI, or through the projector's mirroring capabilities via AirPlay or Miracast. It's Wi-Fi enabled and has a built-in 1.5W speaker.
Our Verdict
The KODAK LUMA 150 is bad for watching movies in a dark room. Its brightness is very bad, and it isn't usable in anything but the darkest of rooms. Unfortunately, it has terrible contrast, so fine details are hard to make out in dim scenes. It also has awful pre-calibration accuracy, and there's no way to calibrate it, so you're stuck with the terrible colors it comes with.
- Extremely portable due to its size, Wi-Fi support, and integrated battery.
- Very bad brightness; it's so dim you can barely see the image even in a dark room.
- Terrible contrast, as everything is dark.
- Awful color accuracy out-of-the-box and the projector doesn't have any calibration features.
- Sub-par color gamut.
Changelog
- Updated Aug 02, 2024: We've converted this review to Test Bench 0.9. We've overhauled our Contrast tests, as we now measure contrast at various average pixel levels (APL). You can see the full changelog here.
- Updated May 23, 2024: Mentioned the newly-reviewed WiMiUS P63 in the Color Gamut section of this review.
- Updated Feb 28, 2024: Mentioned the newly reviewed KODAK LUMA 350 in the Contrast section of this review.
- Updated Feb 13, 2024: Review published.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
We bought and tested the KODAK LUMA 150 projector. It's one of the cheaper products in KODAK's LUMA range of projectors, which includes the cheaper KODAK LUMA 75 and the more expensive KODAK LUMA 350, KODAK LUMA 400, and KODAK LUMA 450.
| Model | Bluetooth | Resolution | Cast Capable | Wi-Fi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LUMA 75 | No | 360p | No | No |
| LUMA 150 | No | 480p | No | Yes |
| LUMA 350 | Yes | 480p | Yes | Yes |
| LUMA 400 | Yes | 720p | Yes | Yes |
| LUMA 450 | Yes | 1080p | Yes | Yes |
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This projector is terrible; we don't recommend buying it. However, it's extremely small and has an integrated battery, so it can be an extremely pocketable projector you can easily bring around. Still, if you need such a product, you'd be better off just going for the KODAK LUMA 350, which isn't great either, but it's certainly more usable than the LUMA 150. If you don't need the integrated battery, opt instead for the vastly better XGIMI MoGo 2.
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The KODAK LUMA 350 is better than the KODAK LUMA 150, and between the two, the 350 is the projector to get if you need an ultra-portable battery-equipped device. They both have awful color accuracy that you can't improve through calibration. However, the LUMA 350 is brighter, has better contrast, a wider color gamut, a slightly higher output resolution, Bluetooth support, and is cast capable through DLNA.
The KODAK LUMA 150 is better than the VANKYO Leisure 3, but only because the KODAK is much more portable due to its smaller size and integrated battery. When it comes to image quality, they're both equally abysmal.
The XGIMI Elfin is vastly better than the KODAK LUMA 150. The XGIMI does everything better, and while it isn't as portable as the KODAK, it's no slouch in that department due to its compact size and 2.2 lbs weight. The KODAK does have an integrated battery, but its image quality is so abysmal that it's hard to recommend it over the Elfin only for that feature.
The XGIMI MoGo 2 is much better than the KODAK LUMA 150. The KODAK has one advantage: portability. It's so small that you must see it to believe it, and it even comes with an integrated battery. Unfortunately, that extreme portability comes at a cost, as the KODAK's image quality is abysmal, with terrible brightness and poor contrast, as well as some of the worst pre-calibration accuracy possible, which you can't even improve through calibration.
We've independently bought and tested over 80 projectors and published detailed results for each, so you can decide which one to buy. These have all been tested under the same standardized methodology, allowing you to compare them side by side. We still have all these projects in our lab, so we can continually go back and compare them to ensure our reviews are still accurate. All our test methodologies are also public on our website, so you can validate the results yourself.
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