Hello and welcome to this review of the AMBITFUL AL-16 light shaping modifier.
So this is an attachment for lights and I
have have the bowens Mount here and it allows you to focus the light and shape
the light using gobos in a way that you can't with other accessories.
And it comes in a bowens Mount, an Elinchrom Mount and a Profoto Mount.
It cost me £170 and I use this with my
Godox SL 60 W which is a continuous Led light.
So if you stay till the end of the video you'll be able to see some examples of how
I use this for videography and photography.
So let's have a quick overview.
So we've got the Mount here and this Mount
can come off if you unscrew four of these holders.
So because you can remove the mounts, you're not limited to a single Mount.
Just in here we have a section where we put the gobo in.
This here is our front lens cap because we
have a lens that we can move in and out to focus the light if we want.
I'll talk more about that later.
So the unit also comes with these two accessories and this is a Gobo holder and
this box contains some gels and some gobos.
What you do, you push your Gobo
in here like so and then the light shines through and takes the shape of the GoBo.
We just put it in like this.
You can see in here that the light is
going to shine that Gobo and it's going to make the same shape as the Gobo.
And again, you can use the front element to focus the light if you want to.
So if you want to add colour to the light, we just unscrew this ring here.
So you're going to attach this to your light and then you're going to focus here
and if you focus like so, you are going to get either a sharper or a more blurred
gobo image and it's up to you what you want to take, but you just focus like.
So if you move the light projector further back, you're going to get a bigger
projection, move it closer, you're going to get a smaller projection.
So would I recommend this adapter?
I would recommend this adapter.
It's so much cheaper than a lot of the
other models out there and it basically does the same job.
It's very good, it's well built, it's all pretty much all metal.
I can't see it breaking.
What I think are the good features are you
can switch the mounts, it's substantially cheaper than its alternatives, it doesn't
get too hot to use and you can add gels to it.
You get 16 gobos included with this, but I do wonder where I can pick up more.
There's also an optional accessory you can
buy which works as an aperture for the lights and just controls the amount of
light that goes through things I don't like about the light are this holder is
going to be the weakest point because it all hinges on this.
These don't look particularly secure to me
and I do wonder whether they're going to wear out or break over time.
If it does break, can you get a replacement?
I really don't know.
And the unit doesn't come with a case so I just had to keep it in the box.
That's not the end of the world, though,
so let's look at some examples of how I've used this unit.