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and giving our first impressions
on the brand new Godox S30 LED 3 point lighting kit.
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So, I've got with me today
the Godox S30 3 point lighting kit here.
First impressions on the bags, they're really high quality.
You can see here they're actually made
from a canvas material.
So, this feels like a nice sturdy thick material
that will protect all the gear.
It's canvas and you've got accents of orange here as well.
So, you've got orange zippers.
You've also got a sort of leather tab here
that has the Godox branding.
I mean, it's also the same on the larger bag here.
So, there's two bags.
The larger bag here has the lighting kit
and the accessories inside,
and then the smaller bag here has the light stands inside.
Firstly on the bags, on this small light stand bag,
you've got-- It's sort of like a cylindrical shape.
You've got straps here for carrying
and you've also got double zippers here at the front.
So, when you open this up
I'm just removing that velcro attachment
on the straps there and opening this up here.
The actual bag itself doesn't completely open up.
It only slightly opens up
because the zipper only goes towards the back here.
It doesn't go all the way around.
And that's also good
because it sort of keeps everything contained.
You've got three stands included here.
So, inside you've got the three stands in the pouches.
And then you've also got
a little zipper compartment here as well.
So, with the Godox stand kit, you get the Godox stands.
And these ones here, they're quite good stands.
They're nice and portable.
So, these are approximately 180 centimeters or six feet.
And they're reverse fold stand.
So, you can see here their legs fold upwards
rather than into themselves unlike other stands.
And you've got four different segments here
as well as a spigot.
So, the spigot here, it's made out of brass.
You've got a 3 8 inch at the top.
And then you've also got a little adapter
that changes that 3 8 inch to a quarter inch which is great
if you're mounting different types of photo
and lighting accessories.
So, that's the stands there.
So, it's nicely packed into this small bag.
Now, when we jump into the larger bag here,
we've got the entire lighting kit in here.
So, the larger bag you can see
it's got a carry handle at the top here
and it's also got some straps at the top here.
These are buckle straps.
And what these are used for are
so you can actually slide in your stands
or the stand bag into the actual top here
so you can carry it all in one case.
So, that's why the strap here is a little bit longer than usual.
So, not as short as the one here for the light sandbag.
It allows for that room for you to slide
in the the light stem bag.
So, you've got the buckles there.
You can adjust these buckles to different lengths if you need to.
And on the sides here
you can see there are different compartments.
So, you've got one compartment there and one compartment there.
And when you open these up, it looks like they've got
some sort of waterproof lining on the inside.
So, it looks like it's really high quality build
and it's all made from that canvas.
You got the orange accents with the Godox
branding at the front there as well.
Now, when you open up the front pocket here,
also another zipper compartment.
You've got some accessories in here.
So, firstly it's the Godox SA-30 which is a soft box
that's compatible with the new S30 LED light.
And you've got a second one here too.
So, you've got two in the kit.
And then opening this up here,
let's take a look at what's included in the kit.
It's really got this nice sort of orange felt lining.
You've got a zipper compartment at the top here.
And you've got a bunch of different accessories
and these look like they're barn doors.
So, these barn doors for the S30 head.
And you've got three because there's obviously three lights
and those are the barn doors there.
We'll go through all the accessories later on.
And on the inside here, we have a few things.
So firstly, we've got the S30 instruction manual.
You've got Godox key products.
This is a little brochure
that shows all the different products that Godox have.
You've got the Godox warranty card.
And then you've got a whole bunch of different
other accessories in here.
So firstly, we've got this little felt black pouch.
And on the inside,
it looks like they've got a bunch of different cables.
So, there's an AC cable here.
There's a little wrench here.
And also we've got a USB cable to power here.
So, this looks like it's the powering cable.
You can also power via USB.
And you've got a D-tap to that power cable
and then another D-tap to power cable.
So, this one appears to be longer than that one there.
So, you got a shorter version and a longer version.
And also on the inside here,
we've got another velcro padding part
which you can sort of use to separate the lights.
Well, this looks like the accessory section here
or you can also put it there, just really up to you
and how you want to utilize
all the different velcro removable attachments.
And firstly, a few boxes here.
So, some brown boxes.
This is the gobo holder.
It's the Godox gobo holder and the framing shutter,
and also the IRIS diaphragm.
So, there's three different accessories there.
For reference there,
they've actually got the codes here, the Godox product code.
So, this is called the SA06, the SA07 and the SA10.
Now, opening this up here we've got three white boxes
and these are all the AC adapters.
So, these are the adapters which have that same plug there
that goes directly into the S30
and then what looks like a figure 8 cable connection
that can plug it into the wall
if you have powering options available to you.
So, those are the three.
And then also in the middle compartment here
you've got two more felt pouches as well.
And let's have a look at what's inside.
It's probably the same thing.
So, you've got AC adapter
and you've got your little D tap cables,
the shorter and the longer version,
and you've also got another
one of those wrenches there as a tool
and I imagine it's exactly the same on the third pouch.
So, you get basically three of everything so far
except for those accessories there.
Now, in the last compartment here,
we've got this looks like a shoulder strap.
So, the shoulder strap is the largest strap.
It's got some sort of padding here
and it's adjustable too.
So, you can adjust the length there.
And you've got little hooks here
that hook onto the side of the actual bag itself.
And we've also got a few other accessories here.
So, there's the SA-11C.
Now, this is the color effects set
and it has a bunch of different colors here which are listed.
They've all got numbers as well so you can reference
the different colors that you use.
And you've got the SA-11T.
So, this this one here
is a color temperature adjustment set.
In my hand here, I've also got the gobo set.
So, this gobo set here they like little filters
but what they are are like little aluminium cutouts
that give you little patterns.
This one here is called the SA09.
And lastly you got this scrim set here.
So, you got the scrim set. This is the SA05
which we'll open and go through shortly.
Now, a few other things,
this kit's definitely got quite a lot of items here.
So, you've obviously got the three lights.
Great. We'll jump into
all the different features of the light shortly.
In this last compartment here, this fourth compartment,
you've got this little neoprene pouch
which is really cool.
It's got a little hook here attachment
and you've got a little drawstring here
that you can pull and tighten.
On the side here, it actually has a little tab
and it says what's inside. It's the projection attachment.
So, it's included as part of this kit
and this one here is the actual attachment
that you'll use to focus in a bit more on the light.
It says here it's the 85 mil 2.8.
Yes, that's basically all that's included in the kit.
Let's jump into some of the different lighting features
and let's have a look at the light menu options.
Now, I forgot to mention that they also included
three NPF battery adapters.
So, these adapters here are actually specific
to the accessories that they provide with the S30.
Now, in terms of the powering options,
you've obviously got the AC adapter that's included.
You've got a fair bit of length there.
I think that's roughly about three meters or so,
and you've got additional length there which is about two meters
or so from the AC adapter.
Or if you have USB options available,
they've given you those two cables per light.
So, that's option number two.
Or, option number three is using the D-tap
to the power port option here to a battery.
This is the NPF series batteries and you should also be able
to use this with V-lock batteries.
So, if you have a V-lock battery you can plug
that directly into your V-loc battery
and then plug that into your Godox S30 to power.
Now, they also provide you this little tool with the pouch here,
and what this tool is used for
is actually to adjust the bracket here
or tighten the bracket or loosen the bracket if you have to.
So right now, we've got it on a fairly tight setting.
So, if we loosen that slightly,
you can actually adjust the bracket here
so you can swing the s30 around.
Now, the S30pretty much goes 360 degrees.
It just sort of obstructs here on the sides here.
So, these are the mounting brackets
for all your different accessories
like that projection attachment. Now,
going over the actual physical features of the light here,
you've got a little scroll wheel here
that controls all the different settings
and the intensity and things. You've got an LCD screen.
And on the back here, you've got all the intensity dials,
the power button.
And you've also got the DC jackpot there.
And on the bottom of the light itself,
what you'll see is there's two small fans here.
You've also got just some small air vents at the top here
to further help with heat dissipation with the LED light.
So, let's turn the light on
and jump into some of the settings
and features of the light itself.
So, I've got the V-lock battery here
powering the S30 at the moment
just to keep everything nice and clean on the table here.
Powering this on, you hold down the power button
there just for a couple of seconds to power it on
and what you'll notice when you power it off as well,
you have to hold the button,
it gradually turns off just like it
did there which is great rather than giving
that massive shot of light, especially if it's at 100%.
You can see here on the side there is the monitor here,
this little screen.
It's an OLED screen supposedly
and you've got the battery powering capacity there.
And you've also got the output.
So right now, it's at 100%.
You can go down in 1% increments.
And right at the bottom here,
it just tells you the color temperature of the light.
So, the light itself is a 5600 kelvin light
which is natural daylight.
You can't change the color temperature in any way.
But it just shows you the color temperature there.
I'm imagining that Godox would probably release
a bi-color version shortly.
But this particular model is a daylight version only.
So, you can see here the scroll wheel,
all it does is just control the output intensity here.
The center there is not a button at all.
So, it's just literally a scroll wheel.
And lastly at the back here is the actual dial
that controls the beam angle.
So, this is from 6 degrees all the way up to 55 degrees
depending on if you want it as a spot
or if you want it as a wider spread of light.
And it's just a simple turning of the knob,
rotating it depending on which way you're after.
So, here you've got like a smaller dot icon
which represents more spot, and then a sun looking icon
there which represents a more wider beam.
So, it's just a simple matter of controlling this here
which you'll notice on a wall
or on your subject the beam angle changing there.
That was just a quick unboxing and review
of the Godox S30 3 point lighting kit.
The Godox S30 is one of the most versatile
LED continuous lighting setups in Godox's range at the moment
with the inclusion of the projection attachment
and all the different accessories
such as the barn door,
the gobo set, the color filters, the IRIS diaphragm set,
and all the different lens attachments
that you can optionally get for the lights.
They're perfect to use as a fill light,
a complete lighting setup,
a background light or a hair light.
And so many different creative lighting options
are available for this particular lighting setup.
All neatly packaged into these two bags.
One for the lighting kit and one for the light stands.
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