I feel an urge to get the light grey in the same fabric as my brown backdrop, so I can do a mixed drop style image, have a lighter colour to start with and a back-up. For $120au 2.8x4m coverage with matching textures, just different shades. Alternately, I may just get a second 3 or 4mtr piece, so I can do a joined 3x3m with off-set panels (or not).

In other news;

The Neewer NL140’s arrived today.

I was trying to put off getting the second Selens 150w and managed to spend more on two of these lights, but they were cheaper per light.

First impressions;

Very cheap.

The body is very light, very plasticky. The barn doors are plasticky-stiff, the pivot locks etc feel like they will not take much punishment and the design, in two parts, seem overly complicated and quite large. The cases they came in could each easily accomodate both of my other LED panels or indeed, two COB lights..

The lights are bright, but not much more so than my 480 RGB, which to be fair did cost twice as much and like a lot of things, is getting even dearer in this troubled world. They are quite comfortable to be in front of though, so maybe they will fill a niche.

They do run a fan, which is quieter than the Neewer COB’s, but not as quiet as the Selens.

Another small thing, likely related to their app-run nature, they are always set to 3200k, 0% when I turn them on.

The limitation of wall power only without a V-mount battery or optional V-mount to NP adapter is ok I guess, but I have to wonder how many people would have multi hundred dollar V-mount batteries and buy these cheap lights, and the adapter costs half as much as the light! NP slots would make a lot more sense.

The known issue of (repairable) power spike capacitor blow-outs may be a pain, so I will use a spike protector on them.

All up not my best Neewer purchase (although I am glad I did not pay $250+ea RRP on the Neewer site) , I guess they will be used as studio fill lights, maybe head shot specialists, but will not get much other use and in reality the second Selens (bought anyway), would have been a better purchase.