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I was looking at a Neewer TL60 a while ago for a backlight/rim light. Any reason to not purchase them? Ideally I’d be able to get something second hand off someone who is recovering from Gear Acquisition Syndrome :)
Alternatively, anything else I should consider? I already have a decent key light. I just need something a bit more interesting for a second light.
 
Is your current key light an LED or flash?
I think that looks like an interesting special effects light, but if I needed a second flash in a studio, then I’d buy a second flash. That’d be something with the same trigger system as the key light
 
Cheers. The current key light I’m using is an LED. I’ve got a couple of flashes, but I just want something that’s continuous that I can use as an accent light.
 
Thanks! Mind telling me your opinion of them please? The Neewer ones were half the price of the Godox for similar functionality and power I think.
 
I don't know the product, neither do I know who actually makes it. Neewer is a massive and very successful company that typically buys products from actual manufacturers and re-brands them, often at very competitive prices. Some of those products are really good, others are not, and without knowing the actual manufacturer it's pretty much impossible to work it out.

They also now have their own factory, doing fairly modest batch production runs, they tend to make pretty specialised equipment and what I've seen is pretty good.

So, I can't help with this, but looking at the manual and the specs, it seems to me to be nothing more than a gimmick, I can't see any real use for it, or at least not for still photography, I suppose that some of the "special effects" could be useful for music videos and similar.

And, the power output seems to me to be very low. They claim 20 watts power consumption, which isn't a lot, but it has variable colour temperature, so how is that variable colour actually achieved? The colour temperature isn't actually adjustable, it just has an array of different LED's, if you turn the colour temperature down you are, in effect, turning off the white and blue lights, which significantly reduces the actual power, reducing a small amount of light to a tiny amount. At full power, white light, and at a distance of 1 metre, the light should be about the brightness of a well-lit office.

Any form of continuous lighting, compared to any type of flash, is always a poor choice. If you had flash as your key light you wouldn't have to worry about lack of power, high iso, lack of modifiers or anything else, but if you're OK with continuous light and if you feel that this product is potentially useful, it might be safer to buy into a known make such as Godox
 
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I've had them 3 years now and they're still like new, battery lasts a very long time and they're well built
They have a simple to navigate menu, nothing fancy like the neewer ones look to have.
I like them but there's a few things that irk me about them.
The clamp/mount isn't the best, you can see the individual LEDs sometimes, as others like Nanlite has better diffusion.
The LED's don't go right to the ends as the power input is on one end and DMX on the other. Which makes mounting on the ends impossible.

Looking again at the Neewer ones, they look very good and I like the idea of the flow effects and that their LEDs go right to the end.
 
Cheers. I’ll check them out! Please let me know if there’s a supplier you recommend,

@wilt thanks for that. I was looking at the Godox ones, but they were a bit too spendy. Neewer seem to have a sale on at the moment. It’ll be one of those if I pull the trigger.

@garry any reason you’d prefer a flash over a continuous light for fill? I like seeing what the end result will be before taking the image. Admittedly, light power isn’t my main concern. I can sort of get some of the way there with a gel, or a coloured diffuser, but why bother if I can push a button on an app and get the exact colour I want without faffing with gels and the like right? :)
 
Cheers. I’ll check them out! Please let me know if there’s a supplier you recommend,

@wilt thanks for that. I was looking at the Godox ones, but they were a bit too spendy. Neewer seem to have a sale on at the moment. It’ll be one of those if I pull the trigger.

@garry any reason you’d prefer a flash over a continuous light for fill? I like seeing what the end result will be before taking the image. Admittedly, light power isn’t my main concern. I can sort of get some of the way there with a gel, or a coloured diffuser, but why bother if I can push a button on an app and get the exact colour I want without faffing with gels and the like right? :)
I prefer flash over continuous light for everything related to still photography. Please see https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/tutorials/led-lights-or-flash.152/
But, the choice is yours of course
 
I prefer flash over continuous light for everything related to still photography. Please see https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/tutorials/led-lights-or-flash.152/
But, the choice is yours of course
Thanks for the link to the other post. Definitely food for thought. The WYSIWYGness is high on the list as I’ll need it to double as a continuous light for video too.

I wonder if there’s a halfway house that allows selectable colour - maybe preset even - and doesn’t need you to mess around with gels?
 
Using gels is a piece of cake. Here's a very basic tutorial https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/tutorials/using-lighting-gels.141/

I only use the primary colours (red, blue, green) because that’s all that’s actually needed for producing a very wide range of different colour effects. Combine any two to get even more colours. Control the saturation by adjusting the amount of light.
 
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