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Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
Today we're taking a look at this Weeylite
ninja 400 bi-color constant led light. They sent this to me at no cost, so just
keep that in mind throughout the video. Let's get started! The light itself comes
the case, controller, and power brick. Also these cables. It does not come with a
light stand, so just keep that in mind. I think you want to get some type of stand
that's pretty heavy duty. That also has some type of spring system.
Or air cushion system to it. Just in case, if
you loosen these by accident you don't want the light
smashing down. Let's go over some of the features of the light itself. Has a nice
swivel mount. This metal locking pin, and it has geared
teeth on the inside. That way you can adjust it as you want.
But also lock it down. That compresses this piece here...
Build quality of the unit itself, you've
got aluminum and plastics. Feels pretty solid. You also have a lot
of venting for the light. Of course, it's higher
power. So that's a good thing! Inside there, there is a fan. Which so far
my testing is pretty quiet, which is good for video especially. This
shade is included with the light. Has a standard Bowens mount. You hold
this pin back. It comes off very easily.
So three connection points that lock down into the light itself.
So you can use any type of Bowens mount accessory with this light. We're going to
be trying out a soft box and also a snoot!
With the shade it has a reflective surface on the inside. That you can get
maximum power directed to a subject. On the back you
have your DC connection source, five pins. With the included cable... snaps
in very easily. And there is a pin
to loosen it, pull it out. On the back of the light has a little bit of
information we might as well go over that
while we're here. 150 watt maximum power. Also,
an RA rating of 95 or better. And color temperature range of 2500 to
8500 kelvin. We can take a look at the controller
later on, let's start this up and do a test of power. Here's
the light at one percent power, 5200 kelvin color temperature. The light
does come with a remote. Uses two AAA batteries. Just have to
configure the channel and the group so that it
connects with the light. It uses bluetooth, which is nice!
Pretty simple, powered it up. I already have it connected to the right channel.
Let's go down to 2500 kelvin, 25% power. Definitely a warm
light on that. So you can use this and adjust it to whatever other lights you
have or how you want the scene to look.
If I don't mention a specific color temperature
throughout the video, you can assume that i'm using 5200
kelvin. I have a watt meter here. You can see it is using 0.5 watts or so
when it is connected, but not on. I'm gonna turn it on.
So we're at one percent power, 2500 kelvin. It is using about
23.. 24 watts. So it's pretty efficient at one percent
This is the ninja 400's controller unit. Mice and compact.
You've got one side for the power going into the device,
from this power brick. Which is pretty sizable. The cable going from the
wall outlet to the ac adapter is nice and long. However
the one going from the ac adapter to the controller... it's
not too long. So you're gonna have to adjust your setup
to make sure this is pretty close to the controller itself.
This connection here it's a quick release is included
with the device. I just have an extra little cable
for added protection. And then the other side we have the connection to the light itself.
This cable is nice and long as well. So you could definitely
boost it up a lot and still have the controller down lower
for better center of gravity. On the back of the controller we have the connection
point for v-mount batteries. I think it's 14.8 volt...
I don't have one to test out, but you can use this portably.
On their spec sheet it said the light will run at maximum
of 80% power. Definitely something to think about if you want to go portable.
It is an option. The controller units interface is very simple,
easy to use. Got this dial here to adjust power by default.
Let's take it down to 1%. You can actually turn it off fully.
Or jump to one percent so the increments are fine. And then you've
got three buttons. Of course, the one for power. You can hold that
down, That'll turn the light off. And you have the select button to switch
by default between the power and the color temperature.
Let's use the main dial to adjust that.
Here we have the set button. You can hold
this down to get into your wireless settings.
So it starts off with group A. It's flashing.. You can adjust that with the dial.
Or press the select to switch to the channel.
Same thing adjusted with the dial. We'll leave it on 10.
That relates to your remote and also their wireless app.
Which is an option for Android and iOS. Let's go back into set.
What you can do there is once you're in the set mode by holding the button down
press it again, and then you have your DMX settings.
DMX is a way to control lights or multiple lights with a special
controller. I don't have that available, but it is an
option. On the bottom of the controller itself
there's two RJ-45 connection points. That's really all there is
to the controller itself. Let's take a closer look at the wireless remote.
So you hold that button down to turn it on. Adjust the power
with these two things down here. You can adjust to which
channel and group you want to control. So we can
adjust your group. Gives you different settings for each group.
And once we're on channel 10, group A, easily adjust. You can hold the buttons
down or press them once to adjust one percent at a time. If you press the
mode button you can switch between the power and
the color temperature. And whichever one is flashing is the one that will change.
You can easily adjust it the same way as the power.
Works well, no issues with that. Nice and quick!
Here is the included case. Let's look at the bottom.
Rubber feet, we also have a shoulder strap. So these will connect
on the side here if you want to use that as well as the
hand grip. One of those silica gel packets broke
open in transport so I was having to pull out those from the light
and everything else. The sides are very very solid. The bottom
and top have a little bit of flex to them.
We're going to do some tests with the light. First I'll use the included shade.
I also have a soft box and a snoot. I'm gonna do
self portraits. Nice thing you can do depending on your camera is
use it remotely. Plus the remote for the light itself.
So pretty cool to have am easy set up. Just to sit there, take photos.. Change the
light power. Change the camera settings. It works
really nicely. One thing to consider with a constant
light versus a flash type, or a strobe type light, is that with
the constant light what you see is what you get. So it's
easier to control. Easier to deal with. Flash does work, of
course. But there's a little more effort
involved with flash. So nice constant light. Works in video.
Works in photos. It's at one percent power and it's
really really bright. It is very close to me and it's a small space.
So just keep that in mind. Depending on your setup..
it.. will be different.
Have it at 5200 kelvin color temperature.
Of course, I can adjust the light as I want. Let's go 100%.
Let's drop it quick. So you can have it off if you need to.
And then one percent power. Definitely without any type of modifier
you get a lot of light on there. So let's take a quick photo. I'm gonna adjust
the shutter speed on the camera, so it looks decent.
It's using face tracking autofocus. That's the Canon EOS M5...
And take a photo. Let's say I want to use f/8 on the camera.
Definitely very dark on the preview. So what we need to do is
bump up the power. And you can see my video previews are
totally blown out. But the light is at 100 power without any type of
diffusion. So I'm going to take a photo. Without that maximum power,
you're not going to get a photo out of it unless you boost the ISO a lot.
on the camera. It's nice to use this type of modifier. It's simple..
it has a little bit of reflection and directionality to it, but
you don't want to look at the light. Now I'm going to go
into the soft box next. So that's at one percent power. We're still getting a nice
amount of light. This one has double diffusion in it so
you have one panel. Snd then an interior panel. Let's not use
f/8 this time. Let's use f/4. Looks pretty good, 25%...
So if we wanted to adjust the color temperature.. Easy enough..
press the mode button and switch it. Let's go super warm
good nice warm glow to that. Looking at my preview...
Probably need to adjust either the camera settings
or the light. Add some more power to it. So we're at 100th of a second, f/3.5,
ISO 100, and 50% power on the light. Currently at 2500 kelvin
color temperature, take a photo...
Now I'm going to try the snoot and see how that works out. It's a very directional light.
And in this case my snoot doesn't have
a reflective surface on the inside, so it
needs a lot of power because it turns a lot of the light to heat.
Here we have the snoot going at one percent power, 5200 kelvin
color temperature. Let's boosted up to 100%. Yep, very bright and like I said that
snoot does not have any type of reflective material in there.
So it will get pretty hot. You probably want to be careful with something like
this. Not to use it too bright. We're at 10 power
gonna take a photo...
I do have colored gels for this snoot. Gonna quickly
put something on here, like uh, let's go red...
In this case you can really see that red gel is working with the snoot
pretty well. That's at 10 power 5200 kelvin
color temperature. What you can do here is actually adjust the color temperature
and get different color out of it. So slight variations of that.
We're at 40% power 5200 kelvin color temperature.
Take a photo.
Let's go over things I think could be
improved slightly or just stuff to consider. This area.. these two
open circles are relatively sharp. So you want to be
careful around that. Just something Weeylite might want to
look into from a manufacturing side, is just to soften those out a little bit.
But it's a very nice metal, just a little sharp.
Also keep in mind that you will need a light stand.
I think it's good that they're not including the light stand actually.
Because you want to get one that really works well
for it. And shipping a light stand of this size
would be an added cost by quite a bit. In this case
it's a Promaster light stand I picked up locally for forty dollars.
It has the spring so it's a little more safe and
just generally pretty decent. So you should be able to find a nice light
stand to go along with it. It would be nice if the ac adapter had
some type of loop or something like the controller
does, so I could hang it on the light stand
easily. I'm gonna think of some way to hang it. But in general
considering the cord from the ac adapter to the controller is
the shortest cord out of the group... That's something you probably want to
have them close together. So now let's go over the
things I like about the light. The build quality in general feels good.
Metal casing on the light itself. The Bowens mount works well. There's a
little switch. Having any issues with it. Good grip on
the back. This attachment that is fixed to the
light works well for adjusting the tilt and
the actual clamp is metal. So besides that the
cables feel good each cable has a metal end on it.
And they're thick, no issues with that as
far as I can tell. The controller feels pretty good. The
interface is simple. You've got those three buttons plus the dial. There isn't
a lot to change, but you don't need a lot. You got the
color temperature, you have the wireless settings, and the power.
That's it and it just works well enough. I really like the remote. Having a way to
adjust power.. color temperature.. all that simply from afar. Doing solo videography
solo photography stuff. Having a remote for your light is super
convenient. Of course, you saw in the video I was able to
control the camera and the light together. Super easy...
Just set it up, maybe adjust things here and there, but then
use the remote to get the stuff done. In general, what this brings to the table
is versatility with the color temperature and amount of power you can
use. That lets you utilize smaller apertures.
Lets you adjust things with different diffusion
that really pull down the amount of light coming out.
It works well, and it gives you a lot of options, I should say. It's nice to have
that case as well. I can stow it away when I don't want it
all set up as it is. I'll definitely be using this
light more in the future for different videos. Again, thanks to
Weeylite for sending this light to me. Just keep that in mind with the video...
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