Hey, everyone it's Rob from Hypop
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In this one, we're in studio today
because we have an exciting brand new product from Godox.
It's the LD75R.
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So, we've got our hands on the brand new Godox
LD85R which is Godox's brand new RGB LED light panels.
So, if you're familiar with Godox's range
of continuous lights, they've released a few other
RGB type lights, specifically the smaller ones
such as the Godox R1or the Godox M1.
They also have light sticks such as the LC500R as well as the COB
LED lights, the SZ150R.
So, this new series which is the LD series
is a brand new range of RGB LED panels.
So, you can see here just from the photo on the box,
the type of light it is, you can see it's a panel.
It's got built-in barn doors.
So, it's an exciting new product and entry from Godox.
So, if you're familiar with the range of RGB panels
on the market,
something that's really popular at the moment
which is the Aputure P300C Nova,
this one here is sort of like a smaller version
of that type of light.
So, when we jump in and take a closer look at the features,
you'll notice a lot of similarities with these lights.
There's three different models
that are available in the LD series.
So, this one here is the 75R.
There's also the 150R and the 150RS.
So, let's jump into the box and take a closer
look at what's included. So, there we have it.
That's the case that the LD75R comes in.
You can see it's a really neat case.
It's got the Godox branding at the front there.
You've got a couple of shoulder strap holders here on the sides.
You've got your carry handle
as well as a little luggage window
or a business card holder there.
Now, let's look inside. There we have it.
So, you've got a standard sort of clam
shell type closure here for your bag.
You've got a little compartment here
with a netted mesh opening that you can see through.
It's good for all the accessories and everything.
I've got some foam there. So firstly, we have the manual.
We've got the power cable.
We've also got the power adapter.
And you've got the light itself. Now, one last thing to note,
inside the bag you've also got the shoulder strap.
That shoulder strap there is to attach to the sides there.
Firstly, some of the major specs of the light.
It has RGB, CCT and HSI mode.
It has a color temperature range of 2500 kelvin to 8500 kelvin.
It has a CRI rating of 96 and a TLCI rating of 97.
It also has Lee and Roscoe filter gel options
as well as a magenta green color shift.
It really is a super versatile light.
And for its shape which is a LED panel,
you can see there be so many practical uses for this light
whether it be focusing in on a subject
creating a more dramatic look.
There are accessories available for them
too including softboxes and grids.
Or if you just want to wide spread and flood an area,
you can do that too.
Now, some physical features you can see here,
there's a yoke bar.
And this is great because you can see
the actual light itself rotates on this yoke bar.
You have a couple of handles here.
And what you'll notice is that all these gray parts
as well as these yellow accent parts here in the corners,
they're all made from plastic.
And you know, plastic usually means lower quality
or it's a cheaper build. But in this case they really
are using a fairly high quality plastic there.
It doesn't feel cheap at all.
The plastic itself would probably reduce
on the weight of the light itself
because the light itself weighs 3.5kg which is good.
So, that'll suit most heavy duty stands as well the c-stands.
All the control panels here at the back of the light.
You'll see there's a couple of vents here for the fan.
So, well there's a couple of fans on board here.
You also have some vents at the top here
which would probably be just for further heat dissipation
when the lights on.
Obviously when it's at full strength,
it'll generate quite a bit of heat.
You'll notice a battery plate at the back here.
So, that's the V-lock mount battery plate
as well as, obviously,
power via AC with the provided AC adapter.
On the bottom of the light here are a few additional controls.
So, you have your DMX in and out.
You've also got five pin XLR in and out for DMX.
You've also got a USB port.
So, these USB ports for firmware updates as well
as providing power to any other USB devices via cable.
And you've got your on off switch also.
Now on the front, you can see the light itself
is fairly streamlined and clean in design.
You've got a built-in bundle
with your standard four leaf barn door here
and that helps you cut the light a bit further
and you've got your LEDs at the front here
with a diffuser scrim on the front already.
Some other specs include the LED beam angle is 60 degrees.
You also have a LUX rating at one meter of 9320 LUX.
The light itself, you can dim it from 0-100%.
But let's take a closer look at this menu
because when we jump into mode,
you can see here there are three menu options.
Firstly you've got CCT, then you've got RGB, HSI, R-gel,
L-gel and FX.
The rest of them are pretty much self-explanatory
except for R-gel and L-gel.
So, R-gel and L-gel, Godox have renamed these options here.
They used to be called Roscoe and Lee
but now they've just named them R-gel
and L-gel, self-explanatory which one's which.
However, let's just jump into CCT.
And here, what you'll see straight away
is you'll be able to use the right dial here
to pretty much control all the options
when navigating through the menu.
And then you press down to enter into the menu.
And from here, you have four dials to control.
You've got your green magenta shift dial,
you've got your CCT dial,
you've also got your dimmer dial too.
So, your dimmer dial controls the intensity there.
And basically, each of these dials here have preset options
as you press down on the dial itself.
So, when you're pressing down on the dial,
you can see it's gone to a -26 magenta shift
and you can also fine tune it with the dial itself.
And then with CCT for example,
you have presets as you're going through the scale of 2500 kelvin
to 8500 kelvin.
So, you can see 25, 33, 42, 56, 65, 75 and then 8500 kelvin.
And you also have the dimmer here
which can control from 0-100%. And when you press down on it,
it actually just turns off the light totally.
It just brings it down to 0%.
And the great thing about these dials
are that you can actually fine tune
everything in pretty much 1% or 100k increments.
So, really fine-tuning your light.
So, for example, I'm on 15% right now
but if I want to go into say 33%,
I can do that with some fine tuning.
However, if you need to get to a certain setting really quickly,
you can actually just spin the actual dial
really quickly which is good.
And that goes the same for the CCT too.
So, if I can just go all the way to 2500 kelvin
and then all the way to 8500 kelvin
or if I want to fine tune100k increments,
I can go down or up and really fine tune
to get to that right color.
And the same goes with the magenta shift.
You also have four buttons at the bottom here
and these four buttons are presets.
So, you can save some light settings that you have
and have them at a touch basically.
So, that way you're not having to always get back
to those settings especially when you're on set.
Here, you have four buttons at the top here
and these four buttons
basically allow you to navigate through the menu.
There's the mode which obviously brings this mode menu up.
There's a lock too. So, if you hold down on lock,
this will actually lock the screen
and that way no one can go up and touch these
and accidentally bump some of the settings.
And you also have the back button here.
So, that just gets back to certain things.
So, if you've gone into one menu, you can go back
and that'll go back into the other menu option.
Now, the next option is RGB.
And RGB here, you have your classic RGB dials here.
So, from 0-255, you can really fine tune
and get that RGB setting for that.
And also, controlling the saturation
as well as intensity of the light there.
So, that's the dimming intensity there as well
as the saturation when you press down.
Now jumping into the next option which is your HSI.
And HSI, you're obviously controlling your hue,
your saturation and the intensity.
So, you can control the intensity with the dials.
All of these options are actually underneath
and written on the bottom here of each of the dials.
So, for this option, you've got your H, S and I.
So, it's good that they've also got separate dials
for each of the settings too.
So, that way you're not having to use
just one dial to control through or maybe a touch screen
which is a little bit less sort of convenient.
There you're controlling the saturation.
So, you can see I'm going for a fairly intense pink color here.
Now, the next option here is R-gel and your R-gel here.
So, if you know what Roscoe gel
that you'd like the light to be compatible to,
you have all the options here to choose from.
And then you can also control the dimming
and the intensity of the light with that particular gel on.
You've also got the Lee gels too.
So, you can get to that certain Lee gel
that you require as well as controlling the dimming.
And then the effects which of course every RGB light has.
You've got all your standard like RGB cycle,
paparazzi, you've got pulsating there,
you've also got lightning, fault bulb, TV, candle light,
campfire, fireworks, police car, fire engine, ambulance,
and you also have the music mode which is pretty cool
because a lot of Godox RGB lights,
you can see there as I'm talking the light itself is flickering
because it has an inbuilt microphone and it's picking up.
So, that's fairly cool.
Specially perhaps for like a music video.
The only downside for the music mode
really is going to be that you can't control the pattern
I suppose of the light while you're in music mode.
But it's a cool effect to have and you've also got SOS.
Now, each of these effects actually have two
to three different variants of that effect.
So, you can see fireworks has one, two and three.
And really, that's just increasing the speed
of that type of effect.
So, despite there being about 14 effects,
you have about two or three of each.
Now, one thing to take note of is that there's an actual menu
also where you can control the different ways
to control the light itself.
So, I've been controlling it via the onboard dials here
as well as the screen.
But you can control this wirelessly via the Godox app.
So, Godox have a new app, it's called the Godox
Light app, which is really convenient to control.
Specially, if you're controlling groups of lights
because this one here supports 32 groups and 16 channels.
So, that means you can really have a mixture of lights,
not just the LD series but maybe a mixture of other Godox lights.
Use them together and control every thing at the touch
of either the app or also the optional remote control.
So, the remote control is the Godox RCR9
which is the RGB remote control.
Controls most of their other RGB lights too.
When you're in the menu, you can see wireless,
bluetooth or DMX mode.
So, if you're using the DMX ports
either the cat cable or the 5-pin XLR,
then you can use that. You also have fan.
So, fan the good thing about this one here
is that you can actually get it to silent mode.
So, as I mentioned before, there are two fans here.
And you do hear them. They're not loud.
Definitely if you're using low-pass filters
with your audio equipment,
you're not gonna be picking up a lot of this.
But you can actually turn the fan off which is great.
So, you can turn that off
and I've instantly been able to turn these off
and I can hear that that's now been turned off also.
But the only thing to take note of that
is when you are on fan off mode,
you can see that I can only dim it up to 50%.
So, that means you're not getting the full intensity of the light.
In most cases, you can see that 50%
is quite bright up on the back wall here.
You can see that it's intense.
However, that is something to take note of,
especially if you need it in silent mode.
And you've also got screen brightness.
So, you can control the screen brightness of the screen here,
the onboard screen. You've got language which is
basically just English and Chinese there.
And you've got the version and reset.
So, reset is basically just factory resetting the light.
And that's really done if you've sort of hit a certain setting
and you've perhaps you don't know what's happened.
Maybe it's not connecting up to your wireless device,
maybe the bluetooth pairing is not working or something,
and it's good to factory reset.
It's good to have that option on board.
Now, some other things to take note of
on the actual light itself,
you can see there is a safety tether on the light too.
So, if you're mounting this to a light stand,
you can actually tether this also further to the light stand
to ensure that the light doesn't topple over or anything,
especially important if you have it up on a boom.
And yeah, having that wireless control of the light
is great too because when you do have it up on a boom
and you don't want to always go up to the light
and have to control the doors there,
it's just good to be able to use the app or the remote control
to control the light itself. So, the LD series of lights
have three different models available.
Firstly is the 75R which is a 75 watt LED panel.
They've also got the LD150RS
which is basically a bigger version of this one here.
It's 150 watts.
So, the measurements of this actual light here
are about 40cm X 40 cm.
It's about like 44 x 41 cm, and about 10 cm in thickness.
Whereas the bigger version, the 150RS is about 50 cm.
So, it's not too much bigger
but it's double the output which is great.
You've also got a wider panel which is the LD150R.
And that one there is more of a sort of horizontal panel.
And if you want a wider throw of light perhaps,
that'll be perfect for that type of sort of lighting setup.
However, there are three different models to choose from
which really make this entire LD series range a versatile lighting range.
Now, for RGB lights in general,
really their main purpose is for creative lighting effects.
So, what we'll do is we'll throw some photos up on screen of us
using different sort of RGB lights and type of effects and photos
that you can get from these types of lights.
Of course, you can also shoot a lot of videos with them too.
So many different uses for this light.
The fact that it has so many different color temperature modes,
RGB modes, HSI modes,
you've got more than 13 million different color options on the light itself.
You've also got the lighting effects.
You've got the Roscoe and Lee gel filters
as well as the color shift of your magenta green color shift.
This light really packs in all the features
that you need from a continuous light.
If you're after a light in general
that will be basically covering all bases for your lighting setup,
this is the one to look at.
Or perhaps you're wanting to add this light
to a current configuration that you already have.
So, if you've got alighting setup,
maybe you're shooting YouTube livestream
or you have a project in mind that you need continuous lights for,
this would be a great addition to your kit.
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and visit our website hypop.com.au.
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