Rotolight NEO II

I purchased this and its big brother, the Aeos II, for a recent promo shoot in Paris. The Aeos II provided solid constant light, but this little beauty mounted on my hot shoe really saved the day. It's very well made, with excellent control over brightness and temperature. The included filters are a nice touch and came in very handy. It's not as bright as a typical flash, but it is well bright enough to light up a subject several meters away. The portrait shots I took were occasionally slightly over-exposed if anything, so there was no issue with light levels from this device. I was able to adjust in camera RAW, and the results are excellent; magazine quality, and soon to go into print. I will have this with me on all still and film work and I think it's very good value at the price.

This is a great little light. And quite powerful for its size. I normally avoid multi-colour lights as you don't get the power of single colour equivalents but I made an exception with this one - and I'm glad I did. I've already used the adjustable colour several times and I've even used one of the special effects - which I'd written off as a gimmick. I'm looking forward to having the opportunity to use other effects. I haven't used the flash yet as I use TTL flash normally but I have no doubt it works well. I carry this around with me on every job. Even in daylight it's often useful for putting a little sparkle into my subjects' eyes.

I bought one of these nifty little light units a few months back. I haven't used it that much, but when I have, it's been a great product. You really do need to put lithium batteries in it, because alkaline batteries won't last long at all. The light output is no use in normal sunlight, but in a darker room for example, it's very useful. I shot a promotional shoot using one of these attached to a monopod held over the actor's head for key lighting and it worked very well indeed. You can also add it onto the hotshoe of your camera. It's way more powerful than the little Manfrotto LED lights available. But it's expensive. Not for everyone, but a good piece of kit.

Compact and lightweight, I bought this as a fill-in light for video conferencing and presentations. It’s really powerful and spends most of its time at 10%! Build is plasticky (it’s plastic!) but solid. Buttons work well and all I would wish for now is a remote control. Delivery was sooner than promised and the packaging was excellent. Came with filters and a belt case.

I love this - it also comes with various colour filters which are great to give some accents to shots. The only issue I had was that I ordered it last minute for a shoot only to find that in order to trigger the flash function, you need extra items. Luckily my colleague had spare ones. You can of course just use it as a light and hold it over your subject, but I wanted it to take action shots. I found it worked with my regular rechargeable batteries though it recommends using some rather expensive Rotolight ones!

Very expensive for what it is, a bunch of LED's sold at a crazy high price. Rotolight must be nuts to think the ordinary joe soap can then go onto purchase a trigger for another 300 quid then bard doors just to be able to mount the softbox all sold at crazy prices. With that said from reviews its light that it produces has a better reputation for more accurate colour temperature than any of the cheaper products such as the Godox LED panels etc. Build quality is OK but the plastic feels like it will crack if it gets a bang or is dropped, would feel better if it was made from more of an impact resisted material (maybe it is made form this stuff but it feels more brittle) The size is lovely, operation is flawless. It says it on the manual and plenty of review sites that this light is NOT suitable for alkaline AA batteries it needs high performance Nimh cells. This is not an exaggeration sticking some shop bought alkalines into it, it lasts about 10mins max and complains of low battery if you ramp up power to past 50% after a minute or two, this is due to Alkaines not suited for high draw where their capacity quickly diminishes, Nimh cells though are better suited to be able to supply enough umph to keep this light working better. I was initially unimpressed with the output of the light when looking at it with the naked eye, but it appears to be enough to use for head/shoulders shots if you ramp up the ISO on your camera when shooting stills. The good: Lovely light, Lovely size, very versatile. Flash mode with PC sync and HSS flash mode with the crazy priced dedicated trigger. The bad: The high price

The light is really good to use, I had an issue linking it to the Elichrom flash sender and I contacted Rotolight, their customer services is second to non and issues were resolved in a couple of minutes. The light is outstanding to use and I'm sure as I use this more it will get even better for me.

Its a great light, lots of features and control. Very bright and super portable. Its rather costly, but since its aimed at a Pro level user, it is what it is.. Love it.. now want more :) I use it with the approved battries and they last ages too, so super handy for long shoots.

I put a 5 star cause the item is good but, it is extremely overpriced for what it is! flash will work good if the subject is within 5-6 ft the most, the light is not as powerful as they make it seem. there are definitely better options out there for less $$$. lets not talk about the trigger being ridiculously expensive as well!! great seller though!!

Estoy muy contento con el Rotolight Neo II, después de ver cientos de reviews me aventuré a comprarlo y no puedo estar más satisfecho. Las características de este modelo en relación a sus modelos anteriores es la potencia que es tiene mucha mas luminosidad y el disparo con sincronización en modo flash. Este último no tiene tiempo de reciclado por lo que puedes disparar 200 flashazos sin parar haciendl una ráfaga si lo deseas. Sin duda una gran compra.

Ich habe mir die Rotolight NEO II als Kopflicht für meine Panasonic GH5 gekauft. Die LED-Lampe macht einen sehr hochwertigen und haltbaren Eindruck. Die Helligkeit ist als Kamerapoftlicht absolut ausreichend und die Einstellung der Helligkeit und Farbtemperatur macht sie für mich in jeder Situation einsetzbar. Ich betreibe Sie mir 6 AA Akkus und ich habe bisher noch keine Probleme gehabt, dass mir der Strom ausging. Wir die Lampe stationär auf einem Stativ betrieben, liegt auch noch ein Netzteil bei. Die beigelegten Fabfolien nutze ich nicht wirklich; da ist der Weißabgleich wichtiger. Schönes zusatzfeature: Die Rotolight NEO II lässt sich auch als Blitz verwenden. Sie erreicht zwar nicht die Helligkeiten wie ein echter Blitz, aber ist extrem hilfreich, wenn man Videomäßig bei Veranstaltungen unterwegs ist und zwischendurch auch noch Fotos mit Blitz schießen möchte. Die Blitzfunktion ist auch um einiges heller als die Dauerlichtfunktion (subjetiv). Schade ist, das für die kabellose Blitzsynchronisation ein elinchrom transmitter gekauft werden muss, der nicht ganz billig ist. Auf der Kamera montiert, kann man ihn aber auch kabelgebunden über ein PC-Flash-Sync kabel ansteuern. Toll ist auch die mitgelieferte Tasche so wie die weitere Effektlicht-Funktionen wie Lagerfeuer, flackernde Leuchtstoffröhre, Schußsimulation,... Fazit: Tolle Lampe, von der ich mir wahrscheinlich noch welche holen werde, um von den einfachen Softlights wegzukommen und eine klassische Dreipunktausleuchtung mit den Lampen durchzuführen.

Accessoire pour photographe professionnel incontournable. Facile d'utilisation, complément de lumière indiscutable avec une gestion de l'éclairage très facile. Qualité de lumière au rendez-vous et peu gourmand en énergie

Sono ancora incerto se tenerlo o meno nel senso che: la luce che emette dei led in modalità luce continua è molto potente e sopratutto per chi è alla ricerca di una bella luce avvolgente per ritratti magari usando anche un ombrello o un softbox tipo Godox ... ( più economico e con uguali risultati rispetto all'originale che tra alette e softbox ci vogliono più di 200 euro! ) il dubbio invece è usandolo in modalità flash che è vero che ha un tempo di ricarica tra un flash e l'altro inesistente ma è anche vero che per chi vuole utilizzare la modalità flash in piena luce del sole in esterni la potenza è veramente esigua, inoltre per chi usa il flash come me per eventi che eseguo a Venezia, (vedi alcune mie immagini con flash sul mio profilo INSTAGRAM: maurizio_torresan_official ) che lavoro in stile reportage e non ho il tempo di calcolare la giusta luce flash emessa dal NEO II , la funzione TTL è fondamentale. quindi tanto marketing in internet per funzione flash, ma vi come spiegavo all'inizio ci sto pensando se vale la pena spendere circa 400 euro se poi lo userò solo per la luce led continua ... e se volete una buona luce morbida e soffusa per ritratti su Amazon è piena di alternative più economiche di led e softbox ...