Here is a run down on a dual ring light for your smartphone. I go over the pros and cons of this device and if I will ever buy one myself.
How’s it going everybody this is beat the bush the gpe store sent me this dual 12 inch ring light and i’m gonna give you an honest review on this today now why would you need a ring light generally it provides more even lighting let me turn this on and demonstrate this is at its lowest brightness setting on the box over here it does say stepless dimming now i find
That this is not exactly true i can move the knob one step and there’s a detent to stop it from moving over this is the second step third step and so on now watch the brightness very carefully if i move it up one step it actually goes up two steps i only moved it up one step and you can see it went step and then another step so this is step one step two three
Four five six seven eight it seems like eight or nine steps and it is at full brightness therefore you see this is not a stepless dimming but it is actually eight or nine step dimming you can also change the color and i’m gonna do it as many steps as possible one two three four five six seven eight nine it seems like nine step or so and it fully went from a
Really cool white to this kind of warm orange color now i’ve set this as high as i can just to give you an idea of how high it can go it’s about 55 inches to the center of this ring circle thing in terms of the minimum height it can go as low as 18 inches i think build quality wise of this thing it’s pretty basic because it’s not high tolerance kind of stuff if
You kind of move it like this you can see there’s a little bit of play everywhere it comes with three smartphone adapters and two charge ports so if you have the third phone and you want to keep it charged you probably need another port although i really have a hard time finding how i would actually need to use more than one smartphone unless you do live streams
With multiple phones there are two cold shoes on the left and right over here and just to show you you can attach something to it there there’s my mic input you can individually control each side of these ring lights just push the button on whichever side that you want to control and this becomes the brightness knob of this side and the other knob becomes a color
Temperature adjustment of the same side so i can just change the color of this one and then let’s say i want to adjust the brightness and color temperature of the other one you just push that button it blinks a little bit and this again is the color temperature and also the brightness and then if you want to go back to having both of them controlled at the same
Time you push both of them and they both change at the same time these do come mounted on a ball joint so you can loosen them up and point them downwards upwards kind of fold them in or down a little bit like this there is a wire over here that connects to the back my first thought is that these exposed wires is just slightly unprofessional i would have liked it
A lot better if at least they put some kind of heat shrink or shroud or something around this so that it doesn’t expose these colored wires over here but it still works you can just plug it in and it will light up if you compare this ring light to other ones it seems like it diffuses the internal led light a lot better the way you can tell it doesn’t diffuse very
Well is if you can see the individual leds like little circles of brightness but here you can see it’s pretty evenly lit this is on the lowest brightness setting and if i turn it up all the way you can’t even tell that there are little individual leds inside this is the remote you can turn it on and off left control increase brightness change the color temperature
Right side change the brightness change the color temperature and control both of them again lower the brightness this is like a macro 50 brightness 100 brightness yellow white both colors okay turn it off the remote uses two aaa batteries comment on this ac wire here although i do like there is no ac adapter box because that just kind of weighs things down the
Cable could be a little bit longer maybe instead of six feet it’s 10 feet or so so if you really want to be able to drag this thing around in your studio you might actually want a power extension cord let me attach my phone you can see you can just pull this out this is as far as it’ll go put your phone in there just like that and then you plug in your phone okay
Normally i would use two of these really bulky studio lights it has four led bulbs inside each one of them if you’re trying to be portable you have to take these down there’s a lot of setup time with these whereas with the ring light it’s a bit more portable you just fold them together and you’re ready to go however you can see it only has the smartphone adapter
Here so i can’t carry a real camera on top of this thing this thing seems like it’s meant for a streamer that is exclusively using their smartphone now right now i have both of the lights on and also this ring light let me turn off the ring light to show you what this looks like so this is without the ring light and let me turn off the studio lights also this
Is the phone without the studio lights now let me turn on the ring light i’m going to adjust the temperature to my liking this is on the cool side this is on the warmest side so a little bit warm and this is the maximum brightness let me turn it off and turn on the studio lights they both function about the same but the ring lights are a bit more portable the
Difference here is if you look very very closely at my eye and zoom in you can see that there are two squares on the left and right side however if i go and turn on these ring lights you can see it has two little crescent images that is basically reflecting the two rings that is shining on me now having both of them on probably looks the best would i get this i
Probably personally don’t really need this because i don’t stream on my cell phone at all this is especially useful for people that streams on the go if you guys are interested in this product check out my affiliate link down in the video description below you
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Dual Ring Light for Smartphones Review By BeatTheBush
