the godox V1 is a light that's been getting a lot of attention lately and in
today's video I want to go over some of the reasons why some people might look
at the speed light and just think that it's a normal speed light with a round
head honestly if you look into it you'll see that it offers a lot more than that
there's a lot of features that make the Galax p1 a worthy upgrade over the
current top-of-line going speed light which is the equinox v 862 so in order
to not waste your guys time I'm gonna go ahead and start talking about them the
number one feature that I really liked is the bright mind now the fact that the
light itself has a mine lap is really helpful especially if you plan to shoot
portraits tonight or if you plan to shoot in studio because it will help you
get focus on the subject and it'll help you get a preview of how the lights
gonna fall on the subject as well the mining lamp has 10 levels with 10 being
the highest and one being the lowest another feature that's unique to the
gold axe v1 that isn't available and the other godox beam lights is the fact that
it can go even wider in the power output with the lowest being one 256 again this
is something that's really helpful in case you want to shoot at low light
situations like night for example because having that ability to go one
stop lower from one 128th to one 256 can make the difference between having an
overexposure shot or shot that's expose perfectly on a similar note in terms of
power you can actually now adjust the power in point 1 increments which is
gonna be perfect for anybody out there who really wants to fine-tune their
lighting if you want to adjust the power in terms of those point when increments
you're gonna use the dial that's on the speed light but if you really need to
make drastic changes in terms of the power output like one two fifty six for
example all the way to full power for some reason then you wouldn't want
to use the dial and that's gonna take forever to get from you know one 256 to
full power so what I would recommend instead is using the d-pad that's within
that dial instead because when you click up and down it's going to go higher and
lower in terms of full stops which would be a lot quicker when you make those
drastic changes when it comes to the round head down the guard xp1
it's gonna cause for a more even distribution of light which is gonna be
smoother and more appealing than a normal for now head on normal speed
lights and to really emphasize this I went ahead and got the gaddafi 862 the
Gallants v1 and I zoomed them both to 105 millimetres
and took a picture of a blank wall on my home at 4 feet away and it resulted in
these two different patterns however I really want to stress that the only
people who are really gonna see the differences in light between these two
speedlights are people who use their light
on camera and use it at that 105 millimeter zoom length no matter what a
company tries to tell you no light source that is small relative to the
subject will ever give you soft light it's just not possible I even mentioned
this back in 2016 in my first youtube video when I took a picture with an
18-inch octa box by adding a lot of ambient light to the photo you can sort
of mask and hide away the fact that the light is harsh but it's still gonna be
harsh light just a small tip for anybody out there who might watch a video from a
company that claims their small strobe will give you a soft light another thing
that the glads few ones Roundhead offers our magnets which is gonna be helpful in
using the Glocks akr one accessory kit which is available for the 8200 round
head the different accessories that are available within that akr one kit are
the barn door the grid the snoot the gel system and the reversible
black-and-white bounce card the menu system is also different on the glass
people in my opinion it's much simpler and easier to use because one thing that
they did one notable difference that they did was went ahead and remove the
optical slave and obstacle radio mode because honestly I never even cared for
those in any of the speed lights now whenever I want to access Radio slave
mode which is the most frequent mode that I use on the speed lights because I
use them off-camera all I have to do is press two buttons and I'm there and if
you want to use the gold xp1 as a transmitter to control other go talk
speed lights or strobes it's much simpler with the radio master mode being
a lot simpler and easier to use and to operate then the other screen lights
that go out speed 62 when I was preparing this video and I was using the
radio master mode on the v8 62 I just found it a lot more complicated it's a
much much simpler on-the-go XP one on the Glocks p1 they actually also got rid
of the rotating dial on the bottom of the hot shoe or the hot shoe is located
and I honestly never really liked that it just took forever to just kind of
lock on to the hot shoe or wherever you're placing it they went ahead and
just made it into a switch system so that's a lot easier and lot more
convenient whenever you want to attach the speed light onto something the
lights also rated at 650 full power shots and it's going to last a lot more
than that especially if you use a lower outputs I personally used it at one two
and a half hours shoot and at the end of that shoot it still had three bars so
that you know that's testament to itself when I think I want to mention is that
since it's no longer for no head and it's now a round head it won't fit into
the gooks estate bracket but I believe godox is working on a round head bonus
mount type bracket so that you can use it with bonus mount modifiers real quick
guys I forgot to mention a couple things while recording which is the fact that
the Glocks p1 can actually tilt a little bit backwards which is perfect for
bouncing behind you at events it also has a fast four cycle time about one
second which is gonna be twice as fast as the v8 sixty two the v1 also has the
TCM function which is found on the X Pro transmitter which converts a TTL reading
into manual that's all the features that I'm gonna be going over in today's video
since I only had a prototype Canon mount version so it couldn't access all the
features of the speed light once I get a final production Sony mount version I'll
make another video going more in-depth into this light I believe I mentioned
earlier them and in this video what the behind scenes look that I did using the
go Dax p1 at a photo shoot with a friend and model Monique big thanks to her from
morning last minute and to the owners of the location that I shot at which is
called the yard in downtown McCallion so big thanks to them hope you guys enjoy
the photo hope you enjoyed this video and if you did don't forget to give it a
like and subscribe baby so yeah see you guys in the next video
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