Today I'm taking a look at this Weeylite Ninja 20. They did send me this light
and I will be keeping it... It's going to be a straight up overview
features and everything else, let's get started! This light is a fixed 5600
Kelvin color temperature. You get more accurate colors
throughout the range of power. It is ac power only.
There are no battery options with this light. 200 watt maximum power.
With ac adapter the short end is going to be from the adapter itself to the light. You'll
probably need to get some type of thing to hold this adapter to the light stand. It
does not include anything like that. I will also be comparing this light
a little bit to the Ninja 400, which is a discontinued light. The Ninja 400 series
is more expensive. It has a controller separate from the light. It is bi-color.
Let's take a look around the light itself. Has a metal exterior for the most part.
This tension knob is plastic. That allows you to adjust one direction of tilt.
The U-connection that is permanently attached to the light is metal.
One thing to take note of with this light stand connection there's a hole that goes through it,
so depending on what type of light stand you want you can put it vertically or horizontally.
Just be careful of this hole here because it feels a little sharp.
If you don't have anything connected to the light on the COB end you will
be able to rotate it around all the way. This light has a standard Bowens mount.
Very versatile with what type of attachments you can connect to it. Includes the reflector which
focuses the light in one direction. Let's take the reflector that they
include with the light, it's got three connectors for that Bowens mount...
Line it up. Slightly rotate it. Locks in... This case when you want to remove it you have
this switch on the top. Pull back, rotate.. pull it out. Super simple! Works well.
Has a cover for transport, which is nice. The light has a massive heatsink on it.
Inside there you can see through the holes. And just the case.. the heat sink.. I don't think
it's going to be too hot for this light. And does have a fan inside. I'm going to get to the fan...
I did compare the Ninja 20 to the Ninja 400 in light output as well as accuracy with the colors.
In this case I had the camera set up to 5600 Kelvin color temperature,
spot metering, auto focus mode, and program mode. So the camera itself would decide the exposure.
I had to set to the neutral style. Specifically at 100 power I could tell
that this light was brighter by around one and one third stops. Also had more accurate colors
by quite a bit. There was definitely a magenta shift for the Ninja 400.
An optional accessory which I do have from the Ninja 400 is the RC-11 wireless controller...
You can control this light through an app for Android and iOS. In this case it seems
generalized throughout their devices. All I have is a slider here for power control.
On the back here we have: Power, set, color temperature,
and special effects as well as a fan control. The fan control is basically, uhh,
two setting mode where you've got high standard fan and lower quieter fan.
So at one percent power with the low fan it's decently quiet. I can still hear the fan...
Around 10 percent it starts to make a little bit of a different noise. Hitting 15 percent
definitely can hear that higher pitch noise to the fan. It seems to specifically adjust one to one
with the power versus how fast the fan is going. I think in video situations that could potentially
be something you might have a challenge removing in noise reduction software. Go into higher fan
mode, definitely louder. Again, in video situations something you need to consider.
The Ninja 400 that I have is significantly quieter so I tend to use this with video.
At least for me I'm going to be using pretty much just the color temperature modes, but if you need
FX stuff know that it's in there. Here are measurements of power
from the wall with the lights at various power settings in the standard fan mode.
In this case around 10 watts in 1 percent power. 25 percent it's using around 60 watts.
At 50 percent it's using around 130 watts. At 75 percent it's using around 180 watts.
At 100 percent it's using around 240 watts, which is quite a bit more than their
estimation of 200 watts for the light. With this light very easy to use with the
standard fixed color temperature of 5600 Kelvin. You've got that natural daylight look to it.
With the big range of power settings you have a lot of options with modifiers.
This is where a lot of power is helpful, nice large softbox...
Of course we you do add modifiers that have some type of cloth or something between the
light and you or your subject. Keep in mind that will shift the colors.
The Weeylite Ninja 20, you've seen the tests... It is the fixed color temperature 5600 Kelvin
daylight color and it seems pretty accurate from what I can tell. Obviously I don't have
a different comparison besides the Ninja 400, which is a bi-color light and definitely more
magenta shift on that light. So in this case you have
the fixed color temperature. You have the ac adapter so you're not going
to be doing battery power stuff with this. Has the included reflector. It
does not include a case. It's going to be up to you
if all of those features combined and the price and everything else works for your needs.
Again, keep in mind that Weeylite did send me this light to try out and make
a video on. I will be keeping it. Scott of Photography Banzai, thanks!