In this video, we unbox and take an exclusive look
at the brand new Godox SL200W.
So, this is the brand new Godox SL200W.
It's a high powered LED continuous light.
It's 200 watts.
And it's perfect for video production, photography, newborn photography,
green screening, all sorts of variety of different functions.
It's marketed as a video light,
but as I mentioned, you can use it,
it's really popular for newborn photography and children photography
because the light is not strong or too much
for the toddler or for the baby that you're taking a photo of.
Especially compared to flash.
And it's also perfect with video production.
So, having continuous light with true white colors is perfect
for video production professional quality output.
Especially if you're green screening or using it outdoors even.
So, firstly we'll unbox this.
Inside you got a couple of styrofoam pieces
just to protect the light and the SL200.
This is the unit here.
So, that's the unit wrapped up.
I'll just unwrap that quickly.
So, we've got the the head there.
The head is in a mono block shape,
which is a really familiar shape similar to the EF200.
Also has a cap protector here at the front.
So, the SL200 actually comes with a seven inch bowens reflector.
So, it features the bowens mount similar to the EF200.
But this model in particular has a bowens reflector included which is great.
There's the AC cord.
And lastly is a remote control.
So, the remote control also comes standard
with the SL200 watt.
And this is the RC A5 remote by Godox.
So, it's a nice sleek remote.
It looks like a mini Apple TV remote or something like that.
It's about the same size as that.
And just the box of course. So, I'll just inspecting away.
Okay. So, that's basically what's included.
So, we'll run through some of the features of the SL200 Watt.
And also just check out
some of the features of the back panel here.
And also, do a lightning test. So basically, as mentioned,
there is a familiar mono block head here.
It's fan court as well, similar to the Jinbei EF-200.
And we'll run through some of the features here.
So firstly, on the front panel here,
it's got a cap reflector cap there that just protects it.
So, it's a cap protector. And it's a bowens mount.
So, all you need to do is just hold down the tab
and twist to unlock,
and that reveals the high powered LED chip there.
So, being a bowens mount, it's actually suitable
for a range of different lighting modifiers
including softballs, softboxes, beauty dishes, snoots
and all sorts of different lighting modifiers
that you could mount onto a bowens type light.
So, it comes with the included bowens reflector.
So, this is a seven inch reflector.
And it's really easy to mount.
The reflector itself actually has a hole here,
which you can feed an umbrella through.
So, using this and a simple umbrella,
you've got a really simple lighting modifier
that can soften the light for you.
So, all you need to do is twist to lock there.
And there's that hole there at the bottom
where you can feed the umbrella through.
At the bottom of the actual light
is an umbrella mount here as well, which you can--
There's also a small knob there to tighten the umbrella.
So, that's a really basic lighting modifier
that you can set up with the Godox SL200
watt, especially considering it includes the reflector already.
On the back of the panel here, it's really similar
and it's familiar
because we've seen it before on the EF200 by Jinbei.
So, it has an LCD screen here. So, when we turn that on,
you can see the LCD screen coming on there.
I'll just reduce that to the lowest intensity.
There's a few different components here
on the back panel. There's the antenna.
So, this antenna here is for the RC A5 wireless remote.
There's the LCD screen.
The LCD screen shows you the channel
and the group functions. It also has the power intensity.
So, the lowest intensity is 10%. And it also tells you
the degrees of how hot the actual unit is.
So, right now it's on 26 degrees,
and that's on 10%.
So, as you increase the actual intensity of the light,
the degrees or the temperature of the actual unit
tends to go up. It's a really surprising feature
to add on to the actual light itself.
We've seen it go all the way up to about 40 degrees at 100%.
It's definitely safe to work at the high temperatures
because it is fan cooled.
And when you actually touch it even at 40 degrees,
it actually does still feel cool
because the actual unit is made from an aluminium chassis.
So, it actually cools the unit.
There's a heatsink inside, and there's also a fan inside.
So, that actually ensures the unit is really safe,
operating, especially even in full output.
So, there's that twist dial as well.
So, the spin dial actually increases the intensity
and decreases the intensity.
It twists, and you can also press it.
So, pressing sets the particular particular function
that you that you want to set.
So, for example, the channeling group.
When you press that, it actually it actually flushes.
So, if you want to change the group,
you can set it to Group C, for example.
And then once you're done, you press down and it sets it down.
You can press it twice, and it will change the channel
and the channel number would blink.
And you can just spin the dial,
set it to whatever channel you need it to,
and then press down on the dial to set and lock that in.
So basically, it's really relatively straightforward.
On the bottom of the actual back panel here is the AC plug.
And just above that is an actual fuse compartment.
So, the fuse compartment houses the fuse as well
as the spare fuse as well. So, that's just some of the--
That's a quick look at the back there.
And pretty much other than that,
it's relatively straightforward to use.
You've got the knob here
that locks it into place for the actual light stand.
So, the light stand then and it just locks it into place.
And lastly about the tilt knob here.
So, it's a large knob, which is great.
It's easy to control and then you can just tell your light up
and down how you need it.
And just twist to tighten. There you go.
So, what we'll do now is we'll test it out
with a couple of different lighting modifiers,
including the 50 cm softball,
which is a really popular modifier
for newborn and baby photography,
as well as the softbox is 60 by 90 softbox.
And we can show you different ways to throw the light.
We'll also do a quick lighting test
on the actual power output up against myself
using that as the only light source in this video.
So, this is the popular 50 cm softball.
It's a spherical ball.
It's completely translucent all the way around,
so the light spreads evenly.
It's perfect for continuous light
or high powered continuous light such as this.
It's a bowens mount. So, it's three from bowens mount
and it can be mounted onto this Godox SL200.
So, I'll do that really quickly here.
All we need to do is line up the prongs.
And once you line it up just twist the lock.
So, there you have it. So, ensure that the handle here
is nice and tight to prevent tilting,
because it is a heavy ball.
And it is a very unique lighting modifier as you can see there.
And what I'll do now is I'll just quickly show
you how to operate this with the remote control.
So, this is an RC A5 remote control.
It's a really straightforward remote.
It takes two AAA batteries.
And you just quickly turn that on.
So, you turn on the remote.
And what you'll need to do is actually turn on the unit
from the dead switch here at the back with a panel.
And once you do that, you can actually control
the intensity of the light.
So, make sure first and foremost,
whatever channel and group you have it set on the back.
Make sure you have that set up as well.
So, I've got this on channel seven and Group C.
So, I'll make sure that I changed that over.
Group C and channel seven.
And then once I do that, I can actually control the light now.
So, as you can see there,
the light increased quite substantially.
So, the lowest intensity
you can actually have this light on is 10%.
But for some reason on the remote,
the lowest intensity you can go is 25%.
So, I can't go any lower than 25% on the remote.
So, as soon as I press minus or plus,
it actually goes down to the lowest
that the remote can handle which is 25%.
So, that brings it to 25% there.
And you can increase that all the way up to 100.
As you increase the intensity of the light,
this is at 100% now.
You hear the fan noise start to increase a little bit.
It's still definitely silently running.
It's not going to be too obtrusive in videos,
especially if you use low pass filters in your microphones.
And also you see the temperature increase as well.
You see the temperature increase on the unit,
as I mentioned earlier.
As I mentioned, it's definitely safe.
It's at 33 degrees now,
and I don't feel any warmth or heat at all.
So, it's definitely safe to operate this
for extended periods.
The actual LED chip is rated to last 100,000 hours,
which is basically seven years continuously on.
You won't have to replace the chip
unless it's obviously dead on arrival,
oh, there's a manufacturing fault.
It will last a long time. So that's really great.
So, you can obviously control the light on and off
with the remote. You just need to make sure
that the dead switch on the back of the panel is switched on.
So, you can turn that on and off wirelessly.
And it's a 2.4 gigahertz wireless.
So, that means you can roam freely,
pretty much 50 to 80 meters around the unit.
So, if you're using this outdoors,
and you have an AC supply, somehow,
you can still use this in and out wirelessly.
So, this is the 50 cm softball lighting modifier.
As you can see here, it's a spherical ball
and the light flows through, gives the throw a light
all the way around 360 degrees almost.
And this is on 10%.
So, this is the lowest intensity of light.
What I'll do now is I'll use a remote control.
And as I mentioned earlier, it will bump it up to 25%
as soon as I use the remote control.
So, I'll press that. So, that's 25% there,
and I'll increase the intensity, show you the spread of light.
So, this is increasing. It's up to 50, 60, 70,
80, 90, and this is now full strength.
So, the throw of light's really unique
from this lighting modify. As you can see, here,
it comes through even at the back, I'll decrease.
I'll dim this a little bit,
so it's not overexposed in the shot.
We'll reduce this back down to 25%.
I'm about one meter away from the actual ball here.
So, the light comes through almost 360 degrees
around the entire light here
and it throws the light across the entire room.
It gives an even spread.
So, some people liken it to light from the sun.
If you're shooting outdoors.
This is really great because it's a white light.
It's nice and accurate. It's 5500 Kelvin.
And you know that the colors are going to come across nice
and accurately.
So, here we have the Godox 60 x 90 cm rectangular softbox
mounted onto the SL200 Watt.
As you can see, you can use a range of different
lighting modifiers on the Godox SL200 Watt.
Godox is a really reliable brand because they actually supply
really high quality flash strobes,
continuous lights, as well as lighting modifiers.
So, with Godox, you actually have a range
of different lighting modifiers. You've got soft boxes.
You've got octagon soft boxes, strip boxes,
and a range of different lighting modifiers to use
with this particular light.
So, you can be sure that once you purchase the light
or once you get the light,
you can actually go through a different range
of lighting modifiers to use with this particular light.
So basically, we'll turn this on now.
So, when you control the light,
even through the dial or the remote,
the actual lighting intensity increases by 1% increments.
So, this is different to the Jinbei EF200.
The Jinbei EF200 goes up in 5% increments
or 10 Watt increments.
So here, you actually have 1% increments,
which is really handy.
So, if you really want to fine tune your light
for that particular lighting scenario.
So, with this softbox for example,
it would be perfect for portrait photography,
or green screening or video production.
But if you wanted to fine tune their lights,
so you needed just a little bit more light.
That way, you can increase it by 1% increments.
It's a lot easier to do that. Otherwise,
you'd have to go through with on the back of your camera,
change some camera settings to adjust to the setting.
But being able to control the light in this way,
is perfect for continuous light.
So, that's one advantage over the Jinbei EF200.
Another advantage is that it does tell you
the temperature at the back. So, that's a new feature.
There's two indicators actually on the back of the panel.
One is if the fan is not working.
So, right now you can actually hear an audible
sound on the fan. So, if the fan does not work,
it will give you a small indicator
at the top left corner of the back of the panel
that'll let you know that the fan doesn't work,
which means that there's something wrong with the unit
and you may need to get it replaced or repaired.
So there's that indicator.
And also with the temperature, it actually tells you
the temperature of the unit itself,
so you know the safe operating temperatures of the light.
So, the Jinbei doesn't do that.
If there's something faulty or wrong with the Jinbei unit,
what we've found is that it just has a red blinking light
and the light simply doesn't work.
So, with this at least you have some indicators,
you know what's going on with your light,
and you have full control.
Because they are high powered lights
and they're always on as you can see here,
despite being LED, similar to funnel lights,
or all red headlights,
you want to know when there's something wrong with the light,
especially you're leaving it on for extended hours.
This is the reason why it's perfect for newborn
and baby photography,
because even leaving it on for an extended period,
you can leave it on all day, and you barely notice any heat
coming out or warmth coming out from the actual unit itself.
And it's safe to operate. So, if something does happen,
at least, you know it's not going to
cause an accident or something like that.
So, that's a really great advantage of this Godox SL200.
So, this is the lighting test with the Godox SL200 Watts,
and the 60 by 90 centimeter softbox.
So, I'm standing about a meter away
from the actual softbox here,
and we have it on the lowest intensity which is 10%.
So, the lowest intensity you can control on the remote is 25%.
So, as soon as I start pressing the buttons here,
it will automatically go up to 25%.
And then I can only increase it from there.
So, this is 10%.
As you can see the lighting probably comes across quite nicely
at this particular setting.
So, once I increase that it will increase all the way up to 100%.
So, that's at 25 now.
So, so as soon as I press the button,
it went to 25% which is the lowest intensity of the actual remote here.
And we'll go all the way up to 100%.
So, I'm increasing that.
That's 30, 40, 50, 60, 70,80, 90, 100.
So, about one meter away, as I said, as you can see here,
it's probably overexposed as it's coming across on the camera there.
But it really is a strong light.
So, it's a really strong light.
It's perfect for things such as baby photography.
So, if you have some props set up,
and you have a child lying down on your props there,
then it would be nice and easy to use this slide.
It's not going to be too much for the chart.
It's not like flash photography is.
Continuous lighting is really easy.
It's simple on and off switch, off like that, on like that.
Really easy to use with the wireless remote.
And overall, it's a great light.
It's a really great unit.
The alternative is fluorescent bulbs.
LEDs are definitely becoming a lot more affordable in the market,
and they're a lot more reliable
because you can actually use different lighting modifiers.
They're more versatile to use.
So, these are definitely great options for your continuous lighting solutions.
So, that was a quick look at the Godox SL200 Watts.
Includes the RC A5 remote as well as the seven inch bowens reflector here.
It really is an overall great continuous light solution.
It's an affordable solution,
and we find it's perfect for photography and video production requirements.
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