Light output change with time (as battery gets depleted)
Not bad, as most of the time it can keep output.
But ideally must be such:
Internals photos
Light has nice compact construction and knobs are fast and easy to adjust, screen is nice.
Led panel is quite complex here, as it has 3 different kind of leds.
Large ones are RGB, one warm and one cool white leds.
Note how nice can see each PWM channel on controller board (R,G, B, Y is warm white, B is daylight white)
Soldering is average, with few small areas with flux remains (I mean board parts, for wires it is usually ok).
Other side of controller board with screen and knobs.
Nice touch is alu radiator, despite that it is small and won't have much effect for leds located not underneath.
I got this about a week ago and am extremely happy with it. It's easy to use, pretty light for handheld work, and has good diffusion as well. The added hotshoe adapter is solid and allows for tilting which is another plus. I'm thinking about getting another one since it would make a great background accent light as well.
RGB mode measurements
Blue
Green
Red
As you can see on CIE chart, colors are very good and saturated, so you can produce with easy much wider gamut than sRGB/Rec 709.
ANDYCINE AL-360 RGB (Tungsten 3200K setting), Measurement using CV600, Russian Lab processing
We cover spectrum, color temperature, and all modern color quality standards, including latest 2016 and 2017 years ones.
Never select light based on just CRI number.
Focus on TM30 and CIE 224 and look for color distortion and Rf values.
ANDYCINE AL-360 is quite good light with light quality suitable for videos.
Color temperature
Note that light is badly calibrated with quite big difference from setting.
CRI color quality
CQS color quality
TLCI 2012
TM30 color quality
TM30 details
All TM30 color samples Rf values
CIE 224 2017
ANDYCINE AL-360 RGB (Daylight 5700K setting), Measurement using CV600, Russian Lab processing
We cover spectrum, color temperature, and all modern color quality standards, including latest 2016 and 2017 years ones.
Never select light based on just CRI number.
Focus on TM30 and CIE 224 and look for color distortion and Rf values.
ANDYCINE AL-360 is good light with light quality suitable for videos.
Color temperature
CRI color quality
CQS color quality
TLCI 2012
TM30 color quality
TM30 details
All TM30 color samples Rf values
CIE 224 2017
Thermals after temperature settled
Video review
@tcarretti This light can work as key light for night portrait (still) if I want to work with continuous light?
@Manu4Vendetta As long as you're not too far away from your subject I think it would work sufficiently for portrait stills. I'm not a photographer, but some of the video footage I've shot with this light looks really nice.
If you ask me - look for lights without diffused panel, and better still - look for narrow angles lights. If you want to light someone face most efficiently and for longer time. :-)
if you want real diffused light check
https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/19487/nab-2018-fotodiox-curved-led-lights#Item_3
Thanks @tcarretti and @Vitaliy_Kiselev the curved LED from Lishuai dont have price yet and the Andycine AL-360 RGB its very cheap.
Quite fun review.
I left a comment about NP-F batteries. It seems absolutely crazy/weird to say that a device that uses them is wrong for doing it. They are some of the cheapest, most popular, and useful batteries in the industry.
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