There've been so many compact LEDs released in the market recently,
could this be the best one yet?
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So, I've got the Boling P1 LED compact light.
It's an RGB light with me here today.
This is the package that it comes in.
So, it comes in this small, neat, little package.
Almost similar to an iPhone box.
So, just some features really quickly about the light.
Firstly, it has a power of 12 watts.
It's got a USB Type-C charging interface.
The battery capacity is 2,930 milliamps and 7.4 volts.
You can dim the light between zero and 100%.
You've also got the RGB color gamut between 0 and 360
using the HSL color palette.
You've got a CRI rating of 96
and a TLCI rating of 97 which is impressive.
And, you've also got a range of color temperature controls
between 2500 Kelvin all the way up to 8500 Kelvin.
Lastly, you've got a battery operation
which lasts for about 140 minutes at full output
so that's quite impressive as well.
So, let's give this a quick unboxing.
There we go.
So, the first thing that we see is a little reference card here actually
with the Boling light.
So, the Boling light is there.
You can see the back there and also this reference card.
So, the reference card just indicates some of the features
that the light has there and some little notes for other controls.
So, I'll put that aside for a second.
And, underneath all these packaging is the case.
That's great that it comes with a case here.
The case has some button fasteners there, some snap buttons
and a Velcro opening there where you can slide in your light.
You've also got a little cold shoe mounting here
which is great for your little run-and-gun setup.
So, if you're mounting to a stand or to your camera hot shoe.
And, in this pouch here, when you lift up the Velcro opening,
there's a little wrench here.
So, that little Allen key that's provided
allows you to control that articulating arm
that's installed onto the lights.
So, there's that.
And, also, just some stickers here and the instruction manual.
Let's take a closer look at this light.
The light actually is really sturdy build.
It's made from an aircraft aluminum
which is what it states in the specifications.
You can really feel a sturdy sort of unit.
It's well built and it's really got some nice rounded finishes here
towards the sides and the edges so that that's a nice touch by Boling.
You can see the LED panels here at the front
and on the back here, you've got the screen for your controls.
You've got all the buttons along the sides and the top
and also a little color reference guide here
for your HSL reference guide.
That's when you're selecting the different colors for that RGB feature of the light.
So, let's turn this on really quickly and have a closer look.
There we go, so as soon as we turn that on,
light looks like it's quite bright so I'll turn that down.
That little display there lights up straightaway
and it's currently on the color temperature setting.
There's a little dimmer knob here on the right side
that shows plus or minus controls.
You can actually control this by one-percent increments
if you go quite slowly on that little scroll wheel
or you can accelerate that
and go through the intensity settings quite quickly
if you're just wanting to dial it up or dial it down immediately.
Let's turn that down a little bit.
So, you're currently on 5600 Kelvin.
When we actually press down on the function button here,
there's a function, little dial wheel that you can flick up and down.
That controls the color temperature on this mode
so it's going down by 100K intervals
or you can speed that up
and go all the way down to that 2500 Kelvin
which is its low range and all the way up to the 8500 Kelvin
which is a bit more cooler there.
Now, next is the set button at the top here.
So, set button cycles through the different modes that you have.
So, the light itself has your typical color temperature orange
and also, color temperature cool light settings
and daylight settings
so, you can cycle through into RGB mode there.
So, I've just pressed the set button down once
and you've got your RGB mode with HSL.
So, with H,
you've got that reference palette there between 0 and 360
and you can cycle through to the different colors that are required
and then from there, you can pick the settings.
You see, I'm sitting on that green, you press down once
and that'll cycle through the saturation of that greens
at how intense and how strong you want that green to look like.
I've got that on 100 now.
And then, lastly, is also the intensity.
You can obviously increase
the intensity of your color selection there with the dimmer knob.
Next setting is actually special effects.
Special effects, you have a total of nine special effects with the light.
It has three different settings which you can go through there.
This one here is lightning which you can see
there's some intermittent flashing there with the light.
You can cycle through A, B and C
in terms of the different lightning effects that it has.
So, it cycles through different patterns of lightning for that effect.
The second one here is cycling through RGB mode
so that cycles through the different RGB available colors,
typically, some of your primary colors there
and you've got a sped-up version of that.
You've got two RGB cycles and you've got a candlelight effect
which shows you a warmer color temperature.
And, it has a little bit of a flicker so it mimics a candle light.
The last effects here are sirens.
This is like police sirens.
You can see it cycles between red and blue
and you also have a bluish and whitish tone
to mimic something like an ambulance.
And then, also just the reddish tone which mimics something like a fire engine.
You've got nine different lighting effects to choose from
and that's all pre built in.
That reminds me something similar to the Aputure AL-MW
which has lighting effects built-in.
But it's good to see that this light here in particular has that built in
as well as all the additional RGB features that the light provides.
So, the operation and control of the lights are really user-friendly
so it has that really clear display there
and it's easy to cycle through all the different settings that it has.
You've got the on/off button at the top
and also, a USB-C charging port at the top there.
So, just plug straight into the light to charge the internal batteries.
Now, on the left side of the light here,
we can see the mounting fixture
which is the articulating arm for this light.
It's a really unique sort of mounting.
It's got a sort of three-stage arm here which cycles up and down
and also an extension that goes out like so.
On the ends here, it's got quarter-inch 20 threads
so you can actually mount the provided cold shoe here.
You can mount that on and attach it to a camera.
The light also includes a USB-C charging cable here.
That's good to use with a portable charger such as this, a battery pack
or just the wall outlet socket just like this.
A little plug you can plug straight into a wall.
And also, if you wanted to plug it into a laptop or a PC or a Mac
or something like that,
power to the charging port just at the top there.
That's a great feature to have to be able to charge it on the go.
So, on top of charging it on the go,
you can actually use this slide as a run-and-gun set up.
I just got a camera here with me now,
this 270-degree articulating arm allows you to mount it
to other quarter-inch threads here.
So, you've got four mounting points along the end of the arm here
and that's great to use with that included cold shoe bracket.
We'll just feed that straight on
and you can slide that into your camera hot shoe
and use those locking wheels to tighten.
There we go.
You can actually position this light in so many different ways
and that's why they have designed this really unique articulating arm
which you don't really find in other lights.
You can angle it downwards and tilt the light as you need it.
Also, position the light vertically if you wanted to
or in the opposite direction.
So, it's a really handy little arm to have.
Because there are quarter-inch threads on the end of the arm here,
you can actually mount it directly to a stand
if you're stand has a quarter-inch thread.
You can also position the arm
just so it's directly below the light like that.
Screw that on.
I've got a small desktop stand here that you can mount the light on.
There you go.
And then, because it does have that tilting feature,
you can actually still position your light
as needed to the direction you desire there.
With all those different mounting options,
this light does pack a lot of features for the price.
The price is roughly at about 249 AUD which is Aputure's price for AL-MX
so it's a competitor to that light.
And, you can see with all the features of the included RGB,
that unique articulating arm and those nine lighting effects,
it really is a great value for mini light.
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