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The light has a shoe-form mount on the bottom (which does not draw power), but check out the other three sides: female shoe-form receptacles! That means you can stack these little guys in any formation you want to double your light, triple it, or more.
The manufacturer rates each light at 600 lumens, which is almost too bright for close-up interviews. They also claim that the light is effective between 15 and 25 feet. We agree that it makes a great mid-range fill light, but we felt like we could have used a second one at about the 20 foot mark in dusk conditions.
If you don't have a shoe mount on your camera -- or if you want to offset your lights -- each light ships with an extender arm that screws between your camera and your tripod, and positions a shoe mount up to 6 inches to the camera's side.
In our testing, the light's battery life came in on the low end of the manufacturer's specs (namely, 45-60 minutes). Still, we found that the units we tested lasted an average of 44 minutes on a full charge. That said, the lights are cheap and tiny: we'd toss two or three in our camera bag, which would let us either use them back-to-back for longer, or stack them if we needed some serious light for a group shot.
The light is about 5600 Kelvin (that is, about daylight temperature), so you aren't likely to have many nasty white-balance surprises when you get your footage back to the studio.
Each light charges from a power cable (included), and it can also be powered directly from the cable if you happen to have a battery belt handy. You can bring a light from zero to a full charge in about an hour. If you need power bricks for European-style plugs, please call us at 1-888-566-1881: we don't normally stock the European model, but we can certainly get it for you.
-reviewed by Alex and Mike
The manufacturer rates each light at 600 lumens, which is almost too bright for close-up interviews. They also claim that the light is effective between 15 and 25 feet. We agree that it makes a great mid-range fill light, but we felt like we could have used a second one at about the 20 foot mark in dusk conditions.
If you don't have a shoe mount on your camera -- or if you want to offset your lights -- each light ships with an extender arm that screws between your camera and your tripod, and positions a shoe mount up to 6 inches to the camera's side.
In our testing, the light's battery life came in on the low end of the manufacturer's specs (namely, 45-60 minutes). Still, we found that the units we tested lasted an average of 44 minutes on a full charge. That said, the lights are cheap and tiny: we'd toss two or three in our camera bag, which would let us either use them back-to-back for longer, or stack them if we needed some serious light for a group shot.
The light is about 5600 Kelvin (that is, about daylight temperature), so you aren't likely to have many nasty white-balance surprises when you get your footage back to the studio.
Each light charges from a power cable (included), and it can also be powered directly from the cable if you happen to have a battery belt handy. You can bring a light from zero to a full charge in about an hour. If you need power bricks for European-style plugs, please call us at 1-888-566-1881: we don't normally stock the European model, but we can certainly get it for you.
-reviewed by Alex and Mike
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| Manufacturer's SKU(s) | SL-20LX |
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