Hey guys.
Welcome back to another video! In this
one, we're going to be unboxing and
reviewing the Sokani X60 COB LED light.
So I've got the brand new Sokani X60
COB LED light with me here today.
So Sokani is a relatively new player
into the market for LED lights.
They had their previous model.
The Sokani X21 small LED panel.
It was really popular as a lithium-ion powered.
small LED light perfect for video or
run-and-gun setups. For a review on
that one, take a look at our video.
That's linked up above.
So this one here is actually
one of their latest models.
It's a brand new model.
It's a COB LED light.
So COBs are chip on board LED lights.
That is sort of like a one head LED
light or continuous light, uh, think
of light such as the Aputure C120D II,
C300D II and Godox's SL60W range.
So this one here is something similar to that.
Uh, let's take a look and open up
the box to see what's included.
So it comes in this brown box here.
You can see there's the
Sokani branding there as well.
First thing that we see here is the Sokani bag.
So it comes in this nice little carry case.
You can see it's black to sort of padded case.
Um, it's made out of just the standards
standard sort of bag material.
And also just got some blue
accents here with the zipper.
You've got this carry strap here, and
it's relatively long because there's
also some straps at the top here.
That allow you to feed through some stands.
So this is a single light in there
So perhaps a stand also inside
When we open this one up,
and we have a little pouch at the top here.
So this is just a zipper pouch.
Um, it's got a sort of mesh
material here and inside.
You've got,
an AC adapter and you've
also got some AAA batteries.
There's also a little international adapter here
because we've been sent the US version here
and you've also got the X60 instruction guide.
Now the good thing about this power cable is
that it's actually just the figure 8 cable.
So if you have a, another figure 8
cable that's suitable for your region,
or you need to do is just swap it out.
So this power adapter here is
compatible from 100 volts to 240 volts.
So it's international.
You can use that virtually anywhere
and here we've got a little lanyard.
And just a little QC card there, and you've
got some padded material here, so that's just a
little padded cover for the top of the case here.
You've got some of these, uh, buckle straps
here, and that allows you to sort of, uh, when
you open it up the actual top, doesn't just
fall down and you can adjust that as well.
The length you've got the shoulder strap.
Here as well.
That's got a bag.
So you've got two shoulder
strap loops on either side.
So that's good.
They've included that one
there and opening it up here.
We've got the light itself.
Um, so the light and this little
bit of plastic there, we have it.
So that's the Sokani X60 light there.
It's a nice little light.
It's actually a lot smaller than expected.
Um, a lot smaller than some of
the other COB lights on the market.
So you can see that as the COB, um,
it's a really sturdy make and build.
Um, it's made out of this aluminium material,
um, and you've also got a lot of laser cut out.
Um, here at the top end bottom.
So that allows for better heat dissipation.
Um, so let's look at that light closely.
We'll have a look at what's.
What else is in here?
We've got a remote control here.
So this is a relatively large remote control.
So that's that one there.
Um, that's larger than some of the
other remote controls in the market.
So you have.
Um, Aputure lights, which have a smaller
remote control and even Godox lights have
smaller, slimmer remote controls.
So this is quite a large remote control.
I can see they have many other
different buttons on here.
You've got color temperature changing.
Um, you've got effects.
So we'll take a closer look
at what that does soon.
And on the side here of the
component, we've got a reflector.
Let's take a closer look at this reflector.
So they've included, some, sort of padding here
and bubble wrap just to ensure that it doesn't
get damaged and there's a reflected there.
So it's a Bowens reflector.
The light itself is Bowens as well.
And on the inside here, you can see
there's sort of this, uh, mesh sort
of design on the inside of the.
Reflector here so that it allows the
light to focus a little bit more.
So this reflector, it appears to be
a little bit more narrower than the
standard seven-inch Bowens reflector.
So we'll explore that shortly as well.
So that's all that's included inside.
Let's set up the light and have a
closer look at some of the features
as well as how to operate the light.
I've got the X60 set up on a mini desk.
stand here.
So the mounting bracket or the yoke bar here
actually has a standard five, eight-inch
spigot fitting just like every other lighting
source and LED light that's on the market.
And what you can see here
is it's a single yoke bar.
So going through some of these physical
features, uh, we've got a single yoke bar
here and a single yoke bar is really good
because it sort of allows the light to
maneuver in many different positions like that.
You don't have a full 360
rotation, so some other light do.
Uh, on the market, but this one here, you can
see, you can tilt it upwards or downwards,
and you have sort of a little bit restricted
with the bottom of the yoke bar here.
Um, but the good thing about this is you've
only got a single knob to adjust the tilt of the
light, and rather than having two on either side
to do that and your light then fitting here,
there's two configurations that you can use.
Firstly is the standard upright position there.
And you've also got another hole here
for a 5/8" spigot that you can mount
horizontally.
So if you wanted to mount the light
this way, you can also do that too.
So if you're shooting top-down or
you have an elevator on a C-stand or
a boom arm, you can also use that.
Now there's also an umbrella fitting here.
So on the side, you can see it as a small
knob where you can feed through an umbrella.
Um, and use that as a lighting modifier for
the light, as well as the Bowens fittings
that this particular light supports.
So some of the features of this light
in particular, firstly, it's called the
X60, but it's actually an 80 watt light.
So slightly stronger than
the lights of a Godox SL60.
Um, and this one here, you can see it's
really small in terms of form factor.
So it does pack a lot of punch for its size.
So the light itself is quite powerful.
It's actually rated at 3000 Lux at
one metre without the reflector.
So when it's just like this and with the
reflector, it's actually 17,000 Lux at one meter.
So quite a lot of output,
especially when using the reflector.
Itself now, obviously it
supports Bowens modifiers.
You can mount all sorts of Bowens, modifiers,
such as, um, softboxes, barn doors, reflectors,
snoots a whole bunch of different
accessories and it is a COB led light here.
So you've got that single light source for
your led light, uh, which is great because
it's more concentrated force of light.
Now this light itself is
colour temperature rated at 5,600 Kelvin
plus and minus 200 K.
So that's your natural daylight
colour balance and colour rating.
So that means you can pair it up with the
likes of other LED lights, whether it's a Sokani
brand one, or if it's some, some light from
a different, um, you know, a manufacturer or
brand, you can actually set it to 5,600 Kelvin
and use it in a bunch of different light.
So.
Also, you've got a CRR rating of
96 plus and a TLCI rating of 95.
So all these features are really high
quality features for such a small
light and at a great price point.
So here in Australia, it's priced at about $280.
And I believe in the United States and North
America, it's priced at about 160 US dollars.
So that's actually quite competitive pricing.
When you look at other light in a similar,
Um, in terms of features and
also its form factor in size.
Now some of the other features of the light.
So there's the Bowens about there.
You've got that release and locking knob there.
And on the side here, you can see there's just
some branding and you've also got a control,
uh, handle here that you can control the light
positioning and that's made from aluminium
or the same material as the casing here.
And on the back here, just going through
some of the menu options, you've got a
dead switch here for your on and off.
So it's right now, we've got a plugged
into the provided wall adapter.
It's a DC adapter and it's 15 volts.
And once that's plugged in, you
can turn it on and off there.
So Sokani are releasing
a battery plate that you can plug in.
So it's basically going to be a DC plug
that connects to an NPF battery plate.
So that's great to see that you'll be able
to support this with battery operation.
And when it's competing with the likes
of something like a Godox, SL60, which
is one of the more popular lights in
terms of its price point and output.
This slide here has a little bit more
features in terms of the battery operation.
And it also has.
Some effects, which we'll go through shortly.
So you've got your dead switch here.
We'll turn that on.
And you can see that there's an LCD screen
that just displays the power operations.
So right now it says DC.
It also showed that, shows that
there's a fan that's operating.
So the reason internal fan here, you
can see from the top or bottom here,
that there's a heat sink, as well as
a small fan, these fans, they
kind of look like small PC fans
fans that you'll see inside a PC.
If you ever opened one up something that
cools a graphics card or perhaps a CPU.
So it's quite a small fan and there's
not a lot of audible sound that I
can hear I'm right next to it here.
And it's really quiet.
So, but if you leave this on for
prolonged periods, I imagine the fan
speed sort of gets a little bit faster.
Right now it also shows the temperature
and that's 27 degrees Celsius.
And you've also got channeling
group there as well.
So right now it's at the channel one and group A.
So there's six different groups and 12
different channels that you can operate from.
So that means you can control
groups of these lights
altogether, and you can control
them via the remote that's included.
And over here, we've got four buttons
and also just a dialing knob here.
So the dialing knob here, you
can see you go, it starts at 1%.
So there's no true 0%.
The actual light itself is on.
Um, so if you want the light off, you basically
just have to turn it off with a dead switch.
And right now you can go up in
1% increments, which is great.
So there's better fine tuning for
your line and all the way up to 100%.
There you go there.
So, so it operates from one to 100%.
Now you can see CCT at the bottom here,
as well as the colour temperature rating.
So the CCT button actually doesn't function at all
because this particular light is a single color.
It's only 5,600 Kelvin.
So the fact that they do have this button
here means that no doubt they'll be
releasing a bicolour version, perhaps one
that goes from 3,200 Kelvin and 5,500 Kelvin.
So this button here itself is actually.
Uh, you know, pretty much pointless.
There's no operation for it for this
particular model, which is the 5,600 Kelvin.
Now at the top here, you've got channel and group.
So you just press down on that, and it
highlights, which one you want to change to.
And then you use the little wheel here to control
the channel or group that you want to set it to.
So you just need to pair that
up to the remote control.
Just make sure that they've
got the same channel and group.
And when you press that again, it
goes over to group and highlights that
now you've got trigger lock as well.
So trigger lock is basically just the lock there,
that our lock symbol that comes off to make sure
that if this, if this remote is pressed, then any
of the settings changed, then you can't press it.
When you actually go on to turn on your remote,
it actually has a little lock indicator as well.
So that shows that you can't just
accidentally hit something or press a button.
And, um, and changed some of the settings there,
mid shoot, or while you're shooting and hold
that down again, make sure we can jump into it.
Now we've got the CCT button,
which, which I mentioned it does.
It's in-operable and you've got
the effects button here as well.
So you've got five different
effects to choose from.
Um, and when you hold down on the effects button
there, you need to press down on the button
that's at the center of the twist knob here.
So when you press down on
that, that actually changes
the frequency.
So you can say it highlights that frequency.
So right now, um, the little icon pretty much
shows you what sort of effect is is happening.
So which one you've got selected?
So this one here is lightning.
So when the intensity is highlighted, you
can go ahead and change the intensity of that
effect and then press down the centre
and change the frequency of the effect as well.
Now you can just cycle the effects
and the next one is fault bulb.
So if you're in the effects mode, also,
what you can do is to get out of the effects
mode and just to go back into the light
mode, you just press down on the CCT button
and that one there jumps straight into
just the standard controls for the light.
There we go.
We just put that on 1% now, in
terms of the remote control.
The remote control is quite large.
So you can see there it's called the RC one.
We'll turn that off.
And the on/off button here at the top
is sort of only for the remote control.
It doesn't actually turn the light on and off.
So despite the light being on
here, I've only got it on 1%.
If I press the on/off button on the remote
control, it doesn't actually turn the light off
on or off, which is a shame because some of the
remotes on the market for other lights do that.
Um, and it's good to be able to control
your lights, you know, wirelessly.
So this remote control gives you 50 metres range.
Um, so what that.
on/off button really does is just
turn the remote on and off.
Uh, you can say there it turns there, the LCD
screen off and switches the remote off, and
you've got pretty much all the same little
icons here on the top of the LCD screen.
So you've got the fan indicator,
but the battery, the battery.
Here shows you the battery capacity or the, or
how much better you've got left off on the AAA
batteries that are inside instead of the DC
that it's showing on the light itself, you've
got the fan operation, you've got channel
group, you've got the intensity and you've
also got the colour temperature rating there.
So when we switched that on and we
turned the light on, we can control
things like jumping to, into the effects.
Going back into your colour, uh, your standard
mode and controlling the intensity of the light
and also just hitting the channel and group,
changing those over as well as pressing the
trigger lock to lock the actual remote here.
So no one touches any of
the settings of the light.
So.
That's good to see that they've provided a remote
control, which is also another added bonus for
the light, because being able to control it
manually, especially if it's up on a boom arm
or a big C-stand, and you don't want to have
to go up and sort of control all the settings,
change all your effects and do all that.
You can just do that through the remote control.
So with the actual reflector here, um,
the Bowens reflector, what you need
to do is just make sure the lugs are
slotted in correctly and twist to lock.
This reflected here is a little bit more narrow.
So it's a 55-degree reflector rather
than a standard 60-degree reflector.
And what that does is sort of narrow the light
a little bit more and focus the light to give
you a lot more output, which is why the one
metre rating with the reflector is 17,000 Lux.
And without it is 3000 lux.
So the fact that you're able to really
concentrate your light there, it's
great to be used as a spotlight.
If you're using this reflector or you can
change your light in so many different
ways, whether you're using color gels.
Using a soft box using the umbrella
through that umbrella mount there or a
barndoor, or you can cut the light as well.
It's great to see that you're able to use
that all with this particular light, because
there's so many people that have Bowens and
modifiers available in their lighting kit.
So you can cross that over with some of
your other lights, as well as this new X60,
besides that that's the light in general.
I quite like the light
myself because of its size.
It's a competitor to the Godox SL60 because
of its size, as well as the added effects
and the compatibility with the optional
battery plate that they'll be releasing.
I think that this light, here sort of
warrants the additional pricing that
you'll be paying on top of the SL60.
And it comes in that neat little bag
of that carry case, all padded with
this reflector, whereas the SL60.
It doesn't have a bag.
So if you're comparing apples to
apples, I think the X60 is worth its
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