Great review. Very interesting piece of gear for someone like me, who is typically a one-man-band videographer. Popping this up instead of a 220 or 300 with a 4ft softbox would save a lot of time. And price seems pretty good too. Might have to pick this up soon. Thanks!
We have old 4’ Kinos at my work. I’m trying to convince them to replace the Kinos with these. I think it would be great for studio work. Plus, the number of times I’m in the field and need a big, soft source, I often need to set up a 3x3 or 6x6 and push light through that. (I don’t have a large COB with Bowens softbox). This would be a nice and fast alternative to that setup.
I understand the cable tie solution, but with all those mounting holes in the centre surely someone has made a locking clip that could go there instead?
Great review as always! I own a pavo 120 which has a very similar ball adapter (minus the handle of course). I've not looked at this but the balls from memory are textured. I wonder if you opened one of those adapters up if you could get in with a Dremel and roughen the sockets up so that the ball and socket joints had a bit more friction with each other. Thanks for the review! :)
Nanlite are clearly listening to you (and rightly so). You asked for this form factor very recently! But they seem to have rushed this to market without checking back! The cable tie safety solution looks workable, but shouldn't be necessary. The ball mount is embarassing in this case, and they should have realised that. I'm seriously considering this light and I'm assuming I would just use the pin mount, the only thing I'd lose is the handle (I think I can cope!) Are there other issues with this thought?
@@jackson3967 No weather protection is probably the only things I didn't mention. I just purchased 3 with my own money, so I feel confident in the product
@@gaffergear When you use the light horizontally the handle is out of the way. Vertically you need reorient the grip head as well which is annoying but still helps carry the weight with micro adjustments.
Thank you for the review. Seems like a solid choice.
Great review. Very interesting piece of gear for someone like me, who is typically a one-man-band videographer. Popping this up instead of a 220 or 300 with a 4ft softbox would save a lot of time. And price seems pretty good too. Might have to pick this up soon. Thanks!
We have old 4’ Kinos at my work. I’m trying to convince them to replace the Kinos with these. I think it would be great for studio work.
Plus, the number of times I’m in the field and need a big, soft source, I often need to set up a 3x3 or 6x6 and push light through that. (I don’t have a large COB with Bowens softbox). This would be a nice and fast alternative to that setup.
I understand the cable tie solution, but with all those mounting holes in the centre surely someone has made a locking clip that could go there instead?
Great review as always! I own a pavo 120 which has a very similar ball adapter (minus the handle of course). I've not looked at this but the balls from memory are textured. I wonder if you opened one of those adapters up if you could get in with a Dremel and roughen the sockets up so that the ball and socket joints had a bit more friction with each other.
Thanks for the review! :)
@@thelightpainters it's worth a shot, but it's solid metal, not like the plastic balls on the old kinoflow.
Definitely worth a shot
As always great review.
Solid gold.
Nanlite are clearly listening to you (and rightly so). You asked for this form factor very recently! But they seem to have rushed this to market without checking back!
The cable tie safety solution looks workable, but shouldn't be necessary. The ball mount is embarassing in this case, and they should have realised that.
I'm seriously considering this light and I'm assuming I would just use the pin mount, the only thing I'd lose is the handle (I think I can cope!) Are there other issues with this thought?
@@jackson3967 No weather protection is probably the only things I didn't mention.
I just purchased 3 with my own money, so I feel confident in the product
I hear low-end dimming isn't great either - Bobbinet should fix that issue and CTO/CTB to fix the lack of spectrum level CCT-Range should solve it.
Obviously, the other thing is the eggcrate, They really should understand the importance of this.
And how it is used.
I swapped the carry handle to have the pin attachment instead of the ball mount.
@@auroraborealis7472 That was my 1st thought. The handle hits the grip head.
@@gaffergear When you use the light horizontally the handle is out of the way. Vertically you need reorient the grip head as well which is annoying but still helps carry the weight with micro adjustments.
Pavoslim VS Infinimat 😅
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