Ahoj. It's got its own battery but there are no cables. It is quite light
and compact. It can be very soft but it can be very strong as well. I am talking
about Neewer vision 4 strobe monolight which I will review in this video. This is
not a sponsored video, however they did provide the product for a review.
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Let's look at Neewer Vision 4 a bit closer. In the box you will see vision 4
studio flash with LED modeling lamp, lithium battery, 100 - 240 volt
charger for lithium battery, standard reflector and protective cover. Let's
mention some specifications. Power output is 300 watts. Output power range is full
power to 1/64 recycling time. At maximum output power is 2.5 seconds recycling
time, at the minimum output power is 0.4 seconds. This flash weighs 1.8 kilograms.
Let's look at the battery. Charging time is about 5 hours and you will get quite
impressive 700 shots if you shoot at full power. This is how you place the
battery in the flash. To charge the battery you have to take it out, connect
and then charge. You cannot use it and charge it at the same time. Also it
doesn't have auto off function so when you are done using it, you got to make
sure you turn it off otherwise it will drain your battery. I must say that I
really loved the fact that the light has built-in flash. I shoot lot of weddings
for last 13 years and I tried to use flash outdoors during some shoots and
the fact that my external flash doesn't have the built-in battery I had to bring
the external battery with the cords and all that. I found it was really slowing
me down and it was just very complicated. It's a very high fast-paced
environment and it just wasn't working for me so I eventually given up. The same
thing that it comes to swimsuit photo shoots. I love doing swimsuit photo
shoots. I am not a huge fan of very complicated setups
and all those cables and all that I just want to grab the camera and shoot and go.
But with this I can see myself using it quite a bit. You just pop the flash
on a stand, you just grab it and go. Nothing complicated at all.
What is also great that it has pistol grip. So when you are on a locations where
you simply cannot use stand and there are situations when you cannot use stand,
your assistant can just hold the flash for you.
I find this feature super practical. It has standard modifier mount to install
the reflector. Just remove the protective cover by simply pressing this button.
That will release it and then you can insert a reflector. If you don't want to
have harsh light, you can use this diffuser. You can also attach umbrella if
you want to. It is a very versatile light. It has flashlight overheating protection
and a low-voltage automatic power cutoff system. How can we make it work with your
camera? The flashlight comes with this wireless, very compact trigger. You can
also trigger the light with a sync cord, photocell and test button. Let's try it
and see what it offers here. From the top left we have modeling light. The
modeling light stays on only for one minute, then it turns off. When you are shooting
outdoors and you have a lot of light, there's no problem whatsoever. When I
shoot outdoors, I never use modeling light because my camera can you know
focus very easily. If I will be shooting indoors with a lot of light, there would
be no problem whatsoever either but if I would be using this light indoors when I
don't have great light I might have problems with focusing, the camera would
be kind of hunting the focus so you I would have to probably set up another
light just lit up the model to make sure she's lit up properly. So that's
something to keep in mind about this light. This light is pretty much made for
location photography. Here is option to turn on and off photocell. If you turn it
on as I mentioned, you can use another flash to trigger this flash. You can
customize the number of pre-flashes to avoid jamming. You can turn on the sound
with beeps here or turn it off. Bottom-left. The button allows you to
switch between three kinds of menu modes. First menu allows you to control power
output settings, flash drive setting, continuous flash setting and
flash frequency setting. Hold 4 seconds to go to second menu that offers
pre flash setting, radio channel setting and group function setting and then hold
8 seconds to enter last menu that controls pre flash special settings. Here
is test button and on the right is where control all the settings in the menu you
selected. Let's return to the first button on the left. When you press it,
again here you can select flash duration range from f1
all the way to FP which is extremely short flash duration mode. Press left
button again and you get to stroboscopic flashes where you can select flash
frequency, continuous flash numbers. You can take photos of moving objects, taking
trajectory of moving objects. And as I was using this light, I found that it can
be very dim, very soft but it can be very strong, very powerful so it can easily
overpower the Sun. Here are some photos with this flash lights. I was just
playing with it. I was taking photos of myself. I'm also including camera
settings and flash settings for you to see what it can do.
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