Hey guys, it's Rob from Hypop and welcome back to another video.
In this one ,we're going to be unboxing and reviewing the Godox V850II Manual Speedlite Flash.
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This one here is a lithium-ion battery powered flash part of Godox's manual flash range. So,
the AA battery version of that is called the TT600. We've actually compared all of Godox
speed lights. So, if you wanted to take a look at that, click the link up above.
Now let's take a closer look at what's included
with the V850II. This one here is a lesser popular flash. So, it has been around for
quite a while but it hasn't really been reviewed online so let's take a look at what's inside.
So firstly, we've got the battery. This is the VB-18 battery.
We've got the battery charger and also the power cable for that charger
and we've got the flash in the pouch and we've also got the manual, a warranty card and
just some instructions here about the lithium-ion battery and the charger.
Now, inside the actual flash pouch here, we've got the flash itself and also just towards the back of
that pouch there is the little cold shoe bracket here, little stand. So this cold shoe bracket
obviously mounts the flash and it also has a quarter inch thread at the bottom so you can
mount this directly to a stand or some sort of tilt bracket or flash bracket.
There we have it.
The Godox V850II is a manual speed light. It's a universal speed light because it has a metal hot
shoe here. It's got a single connection point so if your camera has a metal hot shoe connector on
the top of it, this one here is compatible with it. So there are a few brands of cameras such as
the Sony brand of cameras included in the A6000 range the A7 and the A9 that have a different
type of hot shoe that this really won't support and Godox have released a Sony compatible version
for those called the TT600S. But this flash in particular is a lithium-ion powered flash.
So, a few features for this particular model include that it has 650 full power flashes from
a single charge with that battery. Also, it has high speed sync, up to one of eight thousandths
of a second. It also has a guide number of 60 at iso 100 at 100 metres also is compatible
with the Godox X wireless trigger range that includes the X1 the X2 and also the X Pro.
Now the true compatibility options that you have with the V850II include the X1 trigger,
the X2 trigger and also the X Pro trigger. So, all of these work on the same wireless system.
All you need to do is set the channel and the group for your trigger and have that matching
on the flash itself. You'll be able to control the flash wirelessly so if you're shooting off camera,
it's perfect for that. So if you have it on a stand just like this or if you have it in a
larger stand, if you're out in the field, you can actually do that using the wireless triggers. Now,
these triggers are compatible with most camera brands including Canon,
Nikon, Sony, Olympus, Panasonic, Fujifilm and also now, Pentax.
So there's a great range of support in terms of camera brands for the Godox system. Now to
use the actual flash itself, all you need to do is turn it on and you have different modes available
including manual, multi and also slave mode and you can turn on the wireless mode or turn it off
as well if you just be shooting on camera. Let's take a closer look at some of the menu options.
So, just going through the menu options on the V850II. Let's turn the flash on.
You see a few things on the screen here. Firstly is the mode, the zoom that it's currently on,
as well as the power output it's on and also the battery level indicator there. So you've got a
few buttons listed here. Firstly, would be the mode button which you can actually cycle through
the different modes so multi then back to manual has a second function as well if you hold it so
the options that are underneath this line here are actually a second function for that button.
So to hold that down, it actually turns on the wireless indicator that means you can jump into
off camera flash mode. So when that's flashing there you actually need to use a spin wheel
to change the options. So you've got master or slave. If you're going to be using one of Godox's
X wireless triggers you need to put it into slave mode and then from there you can actually see a
couple of new things that are popped up on screen which include the channel and also the group. So
right now it's set to channel one and group A. What you need to do is just jump into the trigger
that you have and also do the same thing just make sure it's on channel one and group A. So on
this trigger here, you can see it's channel one and group A is turned on to 1/128 power and you
can see when i'm hitting the test button there it actually works so that means it's paired up now.
Now the next button here is zoom. You can actually press the zoom button and change the zoom
of the actual flash and also the second button is the custom function menu which
has a few different options. So firstly, is the sleep time setting. So this is just for
the amount of minutes that you want the actual flash to go to sleep if it's idle, so you can
set it to the default setting which is three, you can set it off completely so it's always on,
or you've got 10 minutes, 30 minutes and 60 minutes. Next option is FC here which is the
auto power off time for auto focus assist. So you have a few different options here,
you got 10, 20 and 30 minutes. So that's if you're not using the auto focus assist when
that will be turned off after that time interval there. Next option is for the beep sound so
currently it's set to off, but if you set it to on every time you go to power the actual flash
(jump back into the menu), it will actually beep just like that you can see a little icon there
that shows that that setting has been enabled. Next setting here is BL which is the backlight
setting. That's the backlight for the LCD display here so you've got on, off or
after 12 minutes there, or 12 seconds, sorry. And lastly is the optical slave mode which you can
set ,so when it's on slave mode you can set it to be slave one or slave two that's mostly used
if you're using groups of flashes, so how we had it on slave mode before with the wireless slave
mode you can set this to S1 and the other one to S2 so you can control flashes independently.
The next button here is the MF button here. So when you enable that, that enables the
auto focus assist lamp so you need to turn that on if you're in low light situations
or if you're finding it hard to get focus you can use that and the sensor at the
front of the flash here will actually turn on helping you with the auto focus assist lamp.
Next one is just holding down on that button there turns on high speed sync up to 1/8000 of a second
and then you've got your test button on this side here, and then obviously your group channel button
here which is corresponding to the wireless mode when you turn it on. You can actually
cycle through so right now when you press on it it cycles through the groups and when you hold it,
it highlights channel and it's flashing there and you can change the channel as well so you
can set different groups and channels for the flash. And then lastly is obviously this scroll
wheel here as well as set button you're using that when you're navigating through the menus.
The V850II has everything that you'd expect from a standard speed light
which includes a locking wheel to lock it into place for your hot shoe,
so you can see that at the bottom it's a spin lock wheel. There are other flashes out there
that have the slide to lock locking wheel here but the spin one you know is sufficient
and on the top here you've got a tiltable head from -7 degrees up to 90 degrees.
You've also got a 360 degree rotatable head so you can go all the way 360 degrees just like that.
Then, of course, you've got that pop-out bounce card as well as diffuser and on the front here
you've got the optical sensor, so if you're not actually using triggers and you have another
flash it can be optical censored and triggered as well as the location for the AF assist beam.
And lastly, is on the side here, you've got a few ports firstly is a 2.5mm jack that's for your
sync cable and also a connection port here which is actually compatibility with some of Godox's
older legacy triggers so if you wanted to use, I believe they're called the FT16S
and the XT16S, those are the receiver ports there. If you're using those you can actually
still use those with this despite it having the inbuilt receiver for the Godox X wireless system.
Now there's a couple of accessories that are available for the V850II and pretty much any
other speed light that has the same shape, a rectangular speed light. That includes the other
speed lights from Godox's range. This one here is the SR1 and that's the a round head adapter,
so you actually can mount this to the front of rectangle or squarish speed lights just like this,
screw to tighten and this round head here allows you to mount magnetic
lighting modifiers. This one here is the AKR1 which is bought separately
and inside here, you've got some accessories that you can mount directly to the SR1. That's
a quick run and gun solution to lighting modify your actual flash here so if you're wanting to
have a quick, you know, lighting modifier setup you've also got snoots, you've got bounce cards,
you've got barn doors, a whole bunch of different lighting modifiers that you can use with the
V850II. On top of that, you can actually mount this directly to an S bracket or an S2 bracket
from Godox so you can use these with Bowens lighting modifiers, as well as umbrella modifiers.
That was a quick unboxing and review of the Godox V850II Speedlite Flash. For more videos just like
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