I know nothing about this, but I do have a pretty good understanding of how the manufacturing system works in China.
Worth pointing out maybe that Godox is just a Profoto rip off.
Not so. Godox, and many other manufacturers closely copy all products that are both expensive and popular. Profoto and others, especially Aputure, are obvious targets because of their very high prices.
Neewer has been selling rebadged Godox kit for as long as I can remember. I had a Neewer flash that worked with their triggers about 7/8 years ago.
They've been re-badging everything for as long as I can remember. But, they now also have their own manufacturing plant, turning out a wide range of stuff, some of which seems to be pretty good.
They no longer seem to just rebadge Godox but assume they have some sort of agreement with them still as they have quite a few that work within the Godox system.
I don't know, but Neewer are a very large and successful business, I'm sure that they have the engineering capability to produce identical or near-identical products, and they have the financial clout to get away with it, in a country that pays little attention to intellectual property rights.
I saw a Neewer ad the other day where it appeared that someone was using a Godox X trigger to control a new Neewer flash (basically a V1 ripoff).
I’ve just been to look at the flash on
Amazon, and there it is, with Godox compatibility mentioned in the sub head , and the V1 clone is £180 vs £300 for the Godox (64Ws).
Is this the beginning of Neewer doing to Godox, what Godox did to the rest of the market?
Has anyone got one? Does it do what it says on the tin?
And there you go . . .
Yongnuou started the copy and undercut process with their flashguns and triggers, they were so incredibly successful at it that they completely dominated the market, to the point where they ran out of customers
Then Godox adopted a similar business model, they are hugely successful, a very large business that has diversified into non-photographic products too, with good reason, and their prices keep going up and up, continually. How can what is, after all, just an ordinary flashgun, possibly be worth £300? There's nothing special about it, they may make strange marketing claims about the round head producing a beautiful soft light, but it's just an ordinary flashgun, so we shouldn't be surprised if other manufacturers see and grasp the opportunity to undercut them.
