Handheld Light Wand, RGB LED Video Light, Stick Light for Photography Painting with Double-sided Led 1530° Full Color Dimming 2500K-8500K Rechargeable Battery OLED Display Aluminum Body 10 Scene Modes

The media could not be loaded.  NO FLICKER PROBLEMS IN VIDEOS: Firstly, when shooting videos, the Sutefoto wand light does not flicker or have any horizontal bands. LED lights at lower prices flicker and have horizontal bands in videos. On some cameras, you can slow your shutter speed to avoid the flicker and horizontal bands of less expensive lights, but a slower shutter speed will lower the production value. Luckily, you can shoot at very fast shutter speeds and this light will not flicker in the video. GREAT CONTROLS: This light does not depend on a cell phone app to control it as LED wash lights do at lower price points. The controls are easy to understand and use.Durable: This Sutefoto wand light is solid, heavy, and durable. It clearly doesn't feel cheap when you hold it. The power cord plugs into it with a snug fit. I own an electronic drum pad that has a flimsy connection when plugging in the power cord and I always worry if the connection port will break. This Sutefoto wand light is the opposite. It gives me peace of mind it will last. PROTECTIVE CASE: The Sutefoto wand light comes with a carrying case. The carrying case has thin padding built into it to protect the wand light from bumps and drops. Precise Adjustment of Color: The Sutefoto wand light allows for the exact adjustment of R (red), G (green), and B (blue) levels (0 through 255). BRIGHTNESS: This light is extremely bright! SIZE: This Sutefoto wand light is large enough to be somewhat of a soft light source (especially if you buy more than 1 of these Sutefoto wand lights and use them together). If I hold the Sutefoto wand light above my wrist and sideways, it doesn't cast noticeable shadows below my wrist. But the size is also small enough to be very easy to store and carry! It's battery-powered too, so that makes it yet even more portable and useable. DIMMABLE: This Sutefoto wand light is dimmable. This means you can gradually adjust the brightness from dim to very bright. Being dimmable is very important for several reasons. On the other hand, if your subject is brightly lit and over-exposed, then you'll probably want to brighten up your background a lot. Another example is using this light as a practical. A practical is a light that shows up in frame, usually gives depth to your shot, and generally looks cool. For example, a Christmas light in the background of your video is a practical. Similar to a Christmas light, the Sutefoto wand light can be made very dim and show up in your background to decorate. COLOR TEMPERATURE: This wand has a great range to adjust color temperature (measured in Kelvin units). A high color temperature is white like the Sun. Suppose you are filming a subject (e.g. person) indoors and your subject is next to a house window. You can set your Sutefoto wand light to a high color temperature like the Sun's color, hide your Sutefoto wand light out of the camera frame near the window, and it will look like the extra light is coming from the windows. Conversely, a low color temperature will match the yellowish-white color of Tungsten lights. You can show an indoors Tungsten light in the camera frame, set your Sutefoto wand light to a lower color temperature, and hide the Sutefoto wand light out of the camera frame. By doing that, it will look like the light from your Sutefoto wand light is coming from the Tungsten light.CINEMATIC ANIMATION MODES: There are various animated modes. My absolute favorite mode is candlelight mode! It has the color temperature of a candle (more yellowish light than pure white light) but it also flickers and fades just like the flame of a candle. Other modes include police light animations, ambulance light animations, and strobe light animations. Of course, the police mode can imitate a police car in a movie, but the other modes have many possibilities. For example, imagine you are shooting a short movie where one of the characters is a celebrity. The Sutefoto wand light can be put on strobe light mode to bounce flashes off of the character and make it look like the paparazzi is taking photos of the character. POWER SOURCE VERSATILITY: This Sutefoto wand light can operate off of battery power or wall outlet power. The wall outlet power allows this light to go beyond filmmaking and be used as a wash light for weddings and live events. It can be used to decorate the stage background for bands. It can be used to decorate your background in YouTube videos, Zoom conference videos, video testimonials, and more. CINEMATIC BACKGROUND IDEA: For cinematic backgrounds, this light can be combined with full-wave rectified Christmas lights and thrown out of focus. In my photos, you will see examples of this.

I have used this wand for around a month now on various photo & video shoots & have been very happy with it. I already have Sutefoto LED lights so I know their quality is good. The power, build quality & size are great. I’ve worked with similar lights in the past but what sets this apart from the others out there is that it is a double sided light, one side is a CCT light with 2500K - 8500K color temp & the other side has an RGB light. So you can just change it on the fly. It also comes with a custom diffusion which you can remove and use on either side of the light. It’s very easy to use and the OLED menu is very user friendly.After over 10 years of using traditional film & photography lights the one thing that was always a bother was setting everything up, lights, stands, power cords, gels, diffusion, etc... This light wand eliminates a lot of that extra equipment if you want to stay nimble. This is great especially if you are doing smaller shoots or on locations where there's no power sources. I also find this is a great addition to my current light kit. It’s pretty versatile given that you can use it as a back light but powerful enough to use as a keylight or even light up your background, depending on your shoot.It comes with a shoulder strapped carrying case so its easy to take with you. I do a lot of film/video shoots and have started taking this with me on location scouts. I just take a camera & this light, place it standing up right on the ground, change colour if needed and take some test shots. I never used to take lights with me on location scouts but this light to carry, quick to set up & is so easy to use.I’ve also been playing around with the many effects this light comes with. I had used the “Fire Truck” effect for a hallway scene in a short film because we wanted to create a danger alert light & it lit up the whole hallway & looked great. I have also played around with light writing and light trails for photos with long exposures and this really works great for that.So far this light matches the good quality I have come to expect with Sutefoto. It’s served me well for video & photo shoots. I attached some test shots I took with this light & plan on updating this review with a video review soon.