Hey everyone, its Rob from Hypop
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In this one we're unboxing the brand new
Godox MF12 Macro flashlight.
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So, I've got with me the brand new Godox MF12 Macro flashlight.
You can see here there's two boxes.
firstly. is just the single flash itself which is called the MF12.
And you also have a twin pack here
which is the MF12 K2.
So, that's a twin light pack.
It also has the adapter ring
and everything included as well as a carry case.
So, let's take a closer look at what's included inside.
So, in the single pack here that I'm opening up you can see
it comes in a nice little carry pouch which is great.
Now, Godox is really stepping up their game
in terms of packaging here.
You can see it's got the Godox branding.
It's made from a sort of hardcase here,
sort of mixture of a soft and hard case.
And you can open this up here.
And also inside we have the user guide.
You've also got a little hot shoe plate.
It also has a quarter inch 20 Mount at the bottom.
You have a--
This is called the MF-CS
which is basically the cold shoe holder for the MF12 flash.
You've got the MF12 flash itself.
And you can see there's also a diffuser here.
It's actually removable that you can take off to snap on diffuser
made specifically for the flash.
So, you can go either barebow by using this diffuser
to obviously soften the light a little bit better.
And you've also got a USB cable here.
So, this is a USB type A to type C
because the flash itself is not powered by AA batteries
but powered with an internal lithium ion battery
which is definitely a great bonus.
So now, let's take a closer look and unbox the MF12 K2.
So, similar to the single unit, it also comes with a carry case.
Once again, it's really made from a similar type of material
as you can see from the single flash there
and you can see it's obviously larger
to fit all the components.
But the great thing about Godox is packaging now.
You can see it's a lot more minimal.
But on this particular model anyway,
they've listed out everything that's included.
So, it's good to every time you receive a new package,
you just go through
and make sure you receive all those accessories.
Now, we've got a piece of foam here.
We'll put that to the side.
So just to start off, you've got the two MF12 flashes.
You have the little ring that attaches the lens ring.
And you've also got the two cold shoe plates there.
And you have a bunch of adapters here
to suit different lens threads.
So, you have the 49 mil, 52, 55, 58, 62, 67, 72 and 77 mil.
Now, I believe this particular lens ring here
supports up to 82 mil.
However, there is no 82 mil thread adapter included,
but it's something that you could potentially purchase aftermarket.
In here, you have a little box
and this box here includes a bunch of different color filters,
which is great.
So, it has a color effects filter.
And you've also got a color temperature adjustment set.
It looks like you've got three different types of colour effects sets.
So, you can see at the back there it actually has the model number
which is the MF 11 C, MF 11 C and then MF 11 T.
So, you get two of the 11 C and one of the 11 T.
Sorry, two of the 11 T as well.
So, you can see it's 2H.
And you've also got a little snap on plate here
for the front of the flash.
There's two of them for the two flashes.
And that's to use in conjunction with the color filters there.
So, you put the color filter on and the snapper on the front.
So, that's great.
They've included additional accessories like that
because you know other brands typically will charge you
for those accessories.
Now, you have two cold shoe plates there as well.
These are useful for not only Desktop mounting.
So, if it's just on a table top like so,
but because of the thread there at the bottom,
you can mount them to stands.
Then you have two USB type A to type C charging adapters.
And lastly, of course, the user guide.
Now quick thing I just noticed, with the single kit,
it also has this set up here that you get the color effects,
filters as well and the color gels.
And I just found this little pouch in there too.
So, that's tucked in in there too.
It's black in color.
So, it could be a little bit camouflage,
which is why I missed it.
But you can see here it's a little carry pouch.
It also has the holder there for the color filters,
as well as the MF-11C and 11T
color temperature and color effects sets.
So, that's also included with the single kit,
but you only receive one of each rather than two of each
for the two flashes on the double set,
just running through the main features of the Godox MF12.
Firstly, it has an internal lithium ion battery,
which is 1700 mAh.
So, that battery allows you to have 500 full power flushes
and an output of approximately guide number 16.1.
And about 12 watts of flash output.
So you can see it's not an entirely,
you know, super strong flash,
obviously due to its size and its use case,
which would be macro photography primarily.
But you can see here, it is definitely a compact unit.
And it has that built in lithium ion battery,
which is why they provide you these cables.
And you can actually charge this on the go
using a portable power bank or a portable battery.
You can also plug this into any device
that provides a five volt two amp charge.
So that's definitely useful.
As you know, most people have one of those devices now you can
even perhaps plug it into a laptop of some sort.
Now, the great thing about these flashes
are obviously their use case.
So, you'd be using this primarily for macro photography,
or even for food photography,
or something a lot of up close work.
So it's really great for that.
This flash allows a recycled time of 0.01 seconds
to 1.7 seconds at full output.
You also have a flash duration of 1/1200 of a second
up to 1/34000 of a second.
You also have two modes of flash here.
So, you've got TTL mode, as well as manual mode.
The only caveat I guess is if you want to use this,
you'd actually need to use some sort of Godox trigger,
which is sold separately.
So, you can see here I've got the X Pro trigger,
it also supports the X2 trigger,
and the older X1 trigger.
Now, we've compared those triggers in a video already.
So, if you want to take a closer look at that one,
click the link up above.
Now, the macro light also has a LED modeling lamp which is great.
So, if you're taking photos of really sensitive objects,
having that modeling light on allows you to see where
the light falls on your subject before taking the shot.
It has 10 stops of brightness with the modeling lamp.
And the flash itself has eight stops of brightness.
So, you can go from 1/128
all the way up to 1/1 or full output.
And the light itself is quite light.
So, it's actually only about 144 grams.
And the dimensions are about seven and a half
by six and a half centimeters.
So, you can see it's a compact light, as you'd expect,
especially if you'd be mounting it
on the front of a lens here.
Now, we've got a smaller camera here
the A6400 with a Tamron lens here,
which isn't necessarily a macro lens,
but we can show you and demonstrate
how to mount this onto the camera itself.
You can see here, the light itself is quite nice.
I mean, it's made from a plastic build,
even the sort of bracket here
that tilts it's made from plastic,
So, you just got to be really careful with that.
However, all in all the package
and what's included at the price point is definitely great.
Now, this is actually competing with a similar type of model
from a different brand which is Yongnuo
and that's the YN24EX.
But for Canon only.
So, that particular macro flashlight
or it also has two lights just like this,
is specifically for Canon.
Now, the advantage of Godox is obviously that it works
with pretty much most camera brands
that has an inbuilt receiver
that's compatible with those x triggers.
That means you can match it up
with the likes of major brands such as Canon, Nikon,
Sony, Olympus, Panasonic, as well as Pentax.
And yes, definitely just an overall great light.
Now, to just to set this up,
you can get this cold shoe adapter here.
And this is if you're wanting to use it
for a sort of tabletop setup.
However, if you're wanting to use it along the ring,
I'll show you how to do that shortly,
you'd have to use these adapters here,
but if you're wanting to use it with the cold shoe adapter,
all you need to do is just move the top bracket out like so.
And you can grab this
and it actually just sort of slides into place like that
and you'll hear it click
and that basically means it's secure now,
and you're now able to either mount
this directly to a stand or a camera tripod
as long as it has a quarter inch thread
or you slide it into the cold shoe plate here.
And there you go.
And you can also mount this to a standard tripod like so.
But there's a lot of times,
I guess, there are a lot of instances
where you'll be taking photos of really close up objects
on a tabletop, perhaps really small.
A great example of this would be jewellery photography,
or small figurines, or insect photography,
or still life photography,
even having this setup on a stand like so,
pointing in into food photography type situations.
So, definitely lots of use cases for this particular light.
And doing this on the second one here.
Okay, so that's your typical setup here.
Now, when it comes to your camera,
what you'll need is to grab the trigger
that's going to be suited to your camera.
So we have here the X Pro trigger.
You can slide that on there.
And that's how you'd be able to connect directly
with the flashes wirelessly.
So, that's a great thing too.
Now, with these flashes,
they obviously have groups and channels.
So, that means you have up to 32 channels,
and you have about six or so groups
that you're able to use.
That means you can pair this up with not only the MF12s,
but also other Godox lights too.
So, if you wanted to use this in a lighting configuration,
you can do that most definitely.
Now, if you're wanting to mount this to a lens,
I'll quickly show you how to do that.
Firstly, you'll need to remove that coldshoe adapter.
So, you don't need that
because this will slide onto the plate here
as you can see.
There's a location where you can slide this on,
it's actually to the side here,
you can press down on this button along the wheel,
you can see it has a little arrow indicator,
and you can press down on that slides in.
And then from there,
you can hold down on the two locking buttons here.
Just move it around the ring as you need it.
And you do that for the second one as well.
Same thing just holding down, clicking that into place
and then sliding it along the ring as you need it.
Now, what you'll notice for the mounting ring here
is that there's a half sort of semi circle ring there,
that slides into the lens adapter that you'll be using.
So, with this particular case,
we'll be using the Tamron 17 to 70 mil here,
and it's 67 mil thread.
So, we'll grab that.
That's really easy.
Even if you have a filter of some sort on the front,
that easily still screws on there.
And just screw to tighten to make sure that secure
because you have the entire weight of this setup
here on the front of your lens.
Now all you need to do is actually just
that open semi circle part from the lenses from the speed ring there,
you just slide that in.
There you go.
So, that's pretty much your setup there.
And then you can obviously just adjust it as you need.
And you can also move the lights around as you need to.
Now there's a couple of things that we did notice
with this particular setup,
especially if you have in this particular configuration here
where you have two
that are sort of the left and right diagonals of the spring.
Depending on I guess your use of the light itself,
it tends to get quite loose here at the adapter
when it's mounted to the lens.
And then sometimes it's sort of just slides down like you saw there.
Because it loses tension when mounted.
So if you're shooting and then all of a sudden,
the actual light will do that.
Now, Godox have come up with a solution to this,
which is something that they'll be releasing soon.
And that's basically rubber stoppers
on the inside of this lens ring here.
And you just basically attach it into that part there.
It doesn't come straight out of the box.
I believe they may change that in future packages.
But that's something to take note of.
You don't actually encounter that issue
if it's evenly balanced on either side, like that.
So, you can see I can pretty much move that around.
It does tend to move, see and loosen over time.
So that is something that you could potentially, you know,
take note of and perhaps fix or request from the store
that you purchased from if they have those adapters yet.
Now, lastly is just mounting the provided or the included
color temperature adjustment sets and color fix sets.
That's relatively simple.
So, first thing we did was remove the diffuser there.
And you'll be using the CLI holder here.
And you're able to just grab one of these from the packet.
This one here I've got is the color temperature
adjustment set, which is the MFL--
Sorry, MF-11T.
And just moving that into
there and snapping that into place.
So you can see now I've got that orange color gel installed.
And you're able to obviously double up on these depending
on what you're trying to achieve in terms of color temperature,
adjusting color effects.
They provide you with multiples of them.
So there's three or four here of the orange filter.
So you're able to obviously double up on that
if you want that effect to be a little stronger than intended.
Otherwise, obviously using a single one is perfectly fine too.
So, that was just a quick look and unboxing
at the brand new Godox MF12 Macro flashlight.
The single kit and the double kit.
These lights are perfect to use for many use cases
including obviously macro photography,
you have product photography,
you can use this in the medical profession.
So, if you're taking before and after shots.
So many different uses for these particular lights.
And being able to pair them up with not only one or two,
but multiple of them using the Godox trigger
here to wirelessly control them.
Having built in lithium ion batteries,
which means you don't have to worry too much about power on the go.
And having all the different accessories that are included
including the hot shoe plates,
the color gels and all the different lens adapters that you're able to use
with your camera and your lens configuration really is a great setup.
Now, for more videos just like this, don't forget to hit that subscribe button.
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or if you have any questions about the Godox MF12.
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and visit our website hypop.com.au.
Thanks for watching.