Hey, everyone. It's Rob from Hypop
and welcome back to another video.
In this one, we're going to be unboxing
and taking a closer look at the brand new Innovatronix
CP flash 550W.
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Let's get into it. So, we're always on the lookout
for the latest and greatest photography or video light.
We review so many different products
from Godox, Aputure so we were pleased
when Innovatronix here based out of Philippines
contacted us to review one of their new lights.
This one here is touted as the most powerful off camera
flash for studio and travel
photography, videography and cinematography.
And it's an LED light that can be used for flash
as well as continuous lights, and it also has effects.
So, we're pretty excited to receive this.
So, full disclosure,
they've sent this to us for review on YouTube.
That's why we're creating this video.
But either way, we're actually happy to have a look
at these new lights, check the features,
see how they compare to others on the market.
So, they sent us two of these lights
so we can test these out in a studio environment
or in a two-light setup.
In that way, we can really see how these lights work.
So, firstly, unboxing these lights here.
Let's have a closer look at what's included.
There's the user guide on the manual.
There's the CP flash 550W, the unit itself.
Also got a USB cable. It's USB-A to a USB micro.
This is a trigger.
So, this is a flash trigger, and also a remote.
And what looks like some colour gels here.
These look like they're magnetic.
They have little magnetic points in either corner there,
and it mounts to the front of the flash.
That's everything that's in the package.
I've got the CP flash 550W set up on a stand over here.
Some first impressions on this light.
You can see it's a monoblock style unit.
Actually, it looks quite similar to the Godox AD200 flash.
The Godox AD200 is an actual photography flash
whereas this one here has LED as it's light source.
And it looks like SMD LEDs. It's a surface mounted LEDs.
And it has a little yoke bar which is great.
The york ball there is a double sided yoke bar
and you have two knobs on the side to lock it in.
And you've got a mounting point here
which is just a quarter inch thread mounting point.
There's no bracket that's included with the actual kit.
So, if you're wanting to manoeuvre this on a light stand,
it actually needs some sort of bull head bracket.
Or you can mount it directly to it like a camera tripod on
to a quick release plate,
coz that's just the universal mounting point there.
You can see we've actually mounted it
directly to the stand here.
So, you're not able to reposition it.
If you twist it around,
it will just loosen it on the stand there.
But the york ball is great because you can actually tilt
this all the way across, and it's a 360 yoke bar,
which means the light can go full tilt and full turn there.
Now, on the front here, you can see the LEDs
and there's four little screws on the front there.
They're the metal screws.
And they're the mounting points for these diffuses
or the color filters.
So, they've provided color filters here.
And they've got a blue one here.
And they're actually just the magnetic mounting point.
So, there's some small magnets mounted
each of the corners there.
And they just mount directly to the front of the light there.
So, those are really great for using in photography
or even video because I know this light here
has some sort of effects which is great.
So, if you're wanting to use different effects,
you can filter them even further with these color filters.
This is blue, there's also an orange,
green, there's red, there's yellow
and there's also just the white or a soft diffuser there.
Now, on the side here,
you can actually see a battery mounting point.
And you need to loosen that with a coin.
And that releases the actual battery that's inside.
It shows you how to mount the battery there
with this little diagram
just so you can insert it in the correct way.
And on the sides here, you have a few other inputs.
You've got the micro USB which is the micro USB cable here.
And that's how you charge this light.
So, you can plug this directly into any USB device
whether that's a laptop or a computer,
or if you've got a USB power bank
or if you've got a USB charger,
similar for one for you iPhone or your android device.
You can plug that in and charge that up.
On top of that, you've got a 3.5 mil. jack here.
And that 3.5 mil. jack's for third party triggers.
They provide you with a trigger here
and a remote control.
So, this is if you're gonna be using a third party trigger.
You've also just got this red button on the side
that's the on/off switch.
And you've got a little LED indicator at the top.
Then on the back over here, you've got a few other things
which include the video light, button, the test button
or ready LED indicator,
and also the channel group settings there.
So, that's the manual switches there that pairs it up
with the bottom of your trigger,
so that way you can connect to the flash
and use it as a photography flash
or even for a video light.
You can do the same on the back of the video
light remote control here. And yeah, that's pretty much it.
So, the actual build itself is aluminium.
It seems like a high quality build.
However, there are no LCD displays
on this actual light. So, you're unable to determine
the power output and anything like that,
and I'll show you why in a minute.
Taking a closer look at some of the features.
Firstly, the actual light itself is a tri-function light.
You can use it for videos.
You can use it with DSLR camera or mirrorless camera.
You can also pair it with your smartphone
and use it as a light source for your smartphone.
It's rated at 550W of LED power.
And it can actually work at any shutter speed because it is LED.
You don't need to sync this up
with high speed sync which is great.
There's other similar lights like this
that have been recently released into the market
just like the Godox FV150
which we've unboxed and done a review of.
So, if you want to take a closer look at that,
click the link up above. And there's other ones
in the market too such as the Rotolight.
So, a lot of these LED hybrid flashes/continuous lights
are now slowly coming into the market.
So, it's good to see that this particular light
is in this really small form factor.
It's really portable,
so that means you can take it with you pretty much anywhere.
On top of that, it's got a rating of 95,000 LUX
at one meter.
So, the output's quite strong and we can test that later on
with some of the light meters that we have.
It has 100 full power shots on a single charge.
So, there's only a small battery on the inside here.
We're used to with the lights such as the Godox lights
that can shoot up
to anywhere between 300 to 500 full power shots.
100 full power shots at 550W output
for a really small compact light is quite good
because there's more time or cases
that you actually won't be using the full output.
You won't be using that full 550W.
So, if you're stepping this down a little bit,
you should get a few more shots out of that.
You've also got the micro USB charging,
so that's really convenient.
And it's compatible with existing speed light accessory.
So, you can see it's a rectangle head at the front here.
So, they've given you these color filters
which just snap on.
You can actually stack them also.
So, if you're wanting to come up with a particular color,
maybe like a blue and a red, you can mix those colours up
if you're wanting different color filters.
But being a rectangle head here means you can actually use
other flash diffusers that you'd be using with other speed light.
So, if you're using standard speed lights,
you put a little soft box
on the front, little barn door in the front,
we'll test some of these as well.
And it also has eight video lighting effects.
Video lighting effects,
are usually found in higher end lights.
Aputure comes to mind, or even some of the new Godox ones.
So, having some lighting effects are great.
The only thing is this is not an RGB light.
So, it's a daylight rated light
and it's only a single colour temperature.
So, if you're wanting to use the effects
such as police car for example,
you may have to use some of these color filters
to create those sort of effects,
so you can actually utilize them in your photos or videos.
It has bluetooth connectivity.
So, having that inbuilt bluetooth receiver
means you can pair it up to your phone and that way,
you can actually use this as a portable light source
for phone photography or filming.
And also, it's compatible with iOS, Android,
so it's pretty much compatible with everything.
And it has a replaceable battery.
So, if you're wanting to have a spare battery,
if you need some more shots while you're out in the field,
just grab a spare battery, which is really good.
And overall, the casing and design's really good.
Being aluminium means that it dissipates
the heat a lot better. So, when you're using the flash,
it shouldn't get too hot to touch.
So, connecting the CP flash 550W
to your smartphone's relatively easy.
Firstly, turn on the light. Hold down the red button.
And on the back here, there's a little LED indicator
that flashes blue on the ready symbol here.
Now, jump in to your phone. And going to the app store
whether that's for the iOS device or android device
that you'll be using,
and download the app called CP flash.
Launch that app there and the first thing you'll notice
is the first tab here which is CP Flash.
It will find a device. This one here is the 9350.
So, it actually gives a four digit
identifying number for the unit because you can connect multiple
CP Flashes to the app and control them independently
which is really good. Once that's all connected,
you can jump between the config tab here
and you can control the flash power as well as
the continuous light mode which I will show you there.
And you can also flash it off which is quite bright.
And you've got different effects
that you can control all through the app.
And this is done through the actual app here by bluetooth
which is great. And on the settings here,
you've got a bunch of different settings.
The skin settings. You've got auto reconnect.
You've also got a scan time out.
You've got a delay after camera open and delay after trigger.
So, you can actually set this delay
to be a little bit more. So, four seconds let's say,
because taking a photo with a phone
is actually relatively easy as well.
So, jump into your camera app there.
And you'll see there's a little indicator
that pops up which is CP Flash.
You need to pull that down, that notification.
And you'll see three options. You get trigger.
You get self timer. And you also get video light on.
So, if you hit trigger,
we've set the later four seconds.
So, you can hit trigger,
about four seconds, it will flash off.
So, connecting to an android device
is a little bit easier to use
because it has a small hover panel for the buttons
to control the self timer, the video mode,
and also taking as shot to flash off the light.
So, once you've connected the app in the CP Flash app,
what you need to do is hit the start camera button.
And you can see there's a little hover screen here.
And that little hover button panel
allows you to control flash.
You can see there's config light and also time of five seconds.
So, when you go to take photo, you just hit that flash button.
And that will trigger the light itself.
And the panel remains on the screen,
unlike the iOS device where the notification disappears
and you have to wait for it's pop-up again
to use that function.
So, it's a lot easier to use on Android.
Now, using this with the DSLR camera
or a mirrorless camera is relatively easy.
Firstly, you need to use the flash trigger
and make sure the dip switches here
at the back match the same on the unit here.
And then, mount this directly to the camera hot shoe.
Then, once you mount this into your camera hot shoe there,
all you need to do is fire off a test shot just so
if that works really quickly. Yup, so that's fired off.
Now, the only downside to this is that there's no way
to actually control the output of the light
on the unit here at all.
You need to ensure that you're connected up on the app.
So, it's still connected up here on the android device.
You can control the flash power percentage.
So, we had that at 100% which is quite bright.
This one here, we'll just shoot that at low percentage at 6%.
So, that's fired off there with the trigger on the camera.
However, much lesser intensity. And there you go.
So, you've got the continuous mode on.
You can use this as a video light.
You've got so many different affects.
You've got paparazzi, police, strobe, bonfire,
continuous mode on, and flickering lamp,
and lightning and TV mode as well.
So, it's great to see
the different lighting effects there.
It really makes it a versatile light.
Now, in terms of the light itself,
the fact that you can use different lighting modifiers
on it is really great.
And you can also use this as a multi light setup.
So, if you're wanting to use two or more lights,
you'd set one of the flashes to a master
and the rest to a slave.
So, that way, you can use this in a multi light configuration.
Whether you're wanting to have this as a key light
and a fill light or even multiple lights
whether you'll make it into like,
three point lighting setup.
So, that's the real versatility of this light
is the fact that it's an LED, it won't take too much power,
it's portable, can be used in photos
and videos, you can use lighting modifiers on existing ones.
You don't need to go out and buy new ones,
ones that you use for speed lights already.
And it also has the capability to work with a smartphone
and also a camera.
We'll go through some test shots now with these actual lights
and we'll also compare the ratings of a light.
So, we'll look at the CRI rating as well
as the output of the light through some of our
lighting meters that we'll show up on the screen now.
So, that was just quick unboxing and review of the Innovatronix
CP flash 550W. This light's great
if you're looking for a light that does it all.
Something that's suitable for photography
as well as videography and cinematography.
It's compact. it's light weight.
It's portable because it's battery operated.
You can use existing lighting modifiers
if you're using speed lights already.
It also includes those color filters which is great.
It has the lighting effects.
And it's also LED which means it doesn't consume too much power.
It's also quite powerful for such a small compact unit.
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