LED Video Light, Switti 2 Packs Dimmable Bi-color Photography Lighting Kit 3200K - 5600K 40W With Barn Doors and U Bracket for Studio Photography,YouTube Video Shooting

This light is one of the few available with 600 daylight colour-temperature LEDs. Competitive products are mainly bi-colour, which means that when set to daylight half their LEDs are out. If you mainly need daylight colour-temperature these Switti lights are thus twice as bright, (but to get a warmer light you need to use the yellow filters supplied).The lights are made of metal and well built. They come in nice carrying cases. Bought with the SWITTI stands you get two for just short of £200.The lights can be adjusted in brightness from 100% down to 1%, continuously by knob, or by button giving 100%, 75%, 50% and 25%. The lights seem to talk to each other by bluetooth or some radio system. If you put several lights on the same radio channel, they all can be controlled from any one of them. That is, twiddle the knob to dim one and they all dim together. If you don't want this, then simply put each light on a different channel.Power consumption on 200 volt mains was measured at 48W when full on. I measured the light produced at a distance of 2 metres from one of these lights at 100% and it gave an incident exposure meter reading of 8 EV. This looks pretty bright indoors; for comparison, an overcast winter day produces 9.5 EV outdoors. The Switti light produces the same brightness whether on mains or battery power. I cannot measure colour temperature of its light accurately, but I think it might be very slightly warmer than 5600 K: Lightroom said 5400 K.I use mine for youtube studio photography. They can also be used in the field if you buy NPF batteries. If you do that I'd get the NPF970 ones to give maximum duration.The only criticism I have is that the buttons on the back of the lights are recessed and are difficult to press unless you hold the unit with the other hand, but of course you don't need to operate these buttons much. The units are conveniently light in weight, and are stable in use, but they simply move if you press the buttons without steadying them.

Having days before just bought some bi-colour lights, I was taken by the higher brightness value of these lights, and being single colour (with filter for warm light). These were marginally cheaper in a daily deal than the others. The other set is the Newer 660 lightsLike the Newers, the Swittis came in a square zip up bag. The bag is disappointing. It's not protective in any way other than from dust. Both operate in slightly different ways. The back panel on the Switti has a more plasticky feel but has illuminated display, plus can be linked wirelessly to other lights which might be useful.My problem in the past with LED lights is I kept buying the dual colour smaller lights, which never quite spew out enough lumens. Having tried one of the Switti lights, I can confirm they seem to be super-bright. One on full lit up a medium sized room with no other lighting. Two adds versatility. More gives creative control. These came with nice long cables if you need that.They are robust but could easily be damaged using the included bags. The Newer version has padding within adding a layer of protection.The controls on the Swittis is fairly intuitive but as they offer more features such as channel and groups, as well as quick power settings, they are more difficult to fathom out. The Newer in comparison offers two dials which are totally intuitive, but lack features of these lights. The Newer version offers 1/4" thread fixing alternative where these only offer the spigot. The Swittis have only 600 LEDs compared with 660 on the Newers. However, the lumens quoted is far brighter with less LEDs on the Swittis. Not sure if that's because it's one colour temperature or just brighter LEDs. You notice the difference. The Swittis and Newer both have barn doors and the panel size is about the same. But the perimeter of the Newer is eclipsed in part by the frame of the barn doors, so you have to put up with this or remove them (not a big deal for LEDs - they're mostly for show). With the Swittis, the LEDs are not blocked by the barn doors. This presumably is to do with having about 10% less LEDs. But like I said, the light intensity at least appears to be higher on the Swittis.I haven't got a chance to put these to use properly so will revise this review with any change of sentiment. Having full power single colour lights offers a lot more freedom than dual colour. You'll otherwise end up having to feed in warm light to increase the power. Saying this, the warm filter on these lights isn't at all versatile. It's on or off. Best use a dual colour light to add warmth unless you want very warm colours, e.g. to simulate evening sun set or glow of a fire. However I do prefer this approach as usually I want daylight, and this offers massive lighting power at that temperature.I'm pleased with the purchase and may end up buying more if they work out. I'm not bothered about the bags although this is definitely an area that can easily be improved. If your needs are more daylight than warm, get these.UPDATEI have now purchased a second pair of these, and love the ability to control other units from each other. My only regret is there is a lack of 3/8 inch tripod mount, requiring the standard lighting spigot instead. Thankfully my lighting stands have this. But if I wish to angle these downwards without removing barn doors, I have to find creative ways of doing so (hint: mount them with spigot at top of light). Other than that they're awesome

For the last thirty years I've been dragging around a lighting box containing three redhead lights, plus stands. Bulbs would regularly blow. Sometimes they would explode - and at £15 per bulb, they were high maintenance. On one occasion, they set off fire alarms. Once switched on, they became very hot and uncomfortable for the subject and crew, and you had to wait 15 minutes for them to cool down before packing them away. If I was filming in someone's home, you could see the owner mentally picturing their electricity meter spinning round every second the lights were on.So, right at the end of my video producing career, these brilliant LED lamps popped up on my radar at a very decent price. They fit my current redhead stands, they are compact, light and easy to stow away in my kit bag, and they can be run off camera batteries or the mains. There's no heat; no 'pinging' noises as the lights warm up; they work using low energy; no clothes pegs are required to clip lighting gels to the barn doors - the list goes on.I prefer these daylight temperature lights to 'bi-colours' LED lights for a simple reason - all of the 620 LEDs are working at all times, so give a very bright (but easily dim-able) light. In contrast, Bi-coloured lights have half the LEDs for daylight, and half for tungsten - which means some are redundant in any situation. The kit includes magnetically-fixed filter slides that make it easy to adjust the colour temperature to tungsten. There are also a pair of diffusing filters included, all tidily stored inside zip-up bags.These lights have made not only my life a lot easier, but also the lives of my interviewees - they don't feel like they're being interrogated under hot, unforgiving redhead lights - they feel comfortable and relaxed, and give much better interviews as a result. Once filming is complete, I can pack these lights up and be back on the road in minutes. Recommended.