Godox SL200III, SL200W III SL-200WIII 215W Bowens Mount Daylight Balanced Led Video Light, 95600lux@1m, CRI96+ TLCI97+, 8 FX Special Effects, Ultra Silent Fan Continuous Lighting

The media could not be loaded. First of all, I love this light, my love for Godox is increasing greatly these days. They are making products competing with big brands in a budget. I’m a professional photographer starting to do videography soon was searching for a good light the suits both photography and videography. Seen a lot of products, read a lot of blogs, reviews and there seems to be a lot of them to choose from on the market. As I have limitations on my budget I came back to Godox and to this product Godox SL200WII especially as I like the specs. I went through the details fully and found this should work best for what I’m planning to do. There's one downside, I don't see many comments/reviews on it, but I've taken the opportunity to try it. Hope this review helps others like me who are in search.Talking about the product, I have ordered this from Amazon, as always, they and the seller are pretty quick and shipped the product on time. Once opened the package, I amazed by the size of it, as a photographer the ones I own are slim and small but this one looked solid. It is made of metal and hard plastic weighing around 10LBs. It comes with a standard reflector and a wireless RC-A6 remote. The power cord included is long enough to move it around the studio without changing the power ports. Also, it comes with a fitted Bowens mount a U-shaped holder that is pretty solid and flexible.Once powered on I see what it can do, suddenly it looked like a second sun ;) after adjusting it to full power. It has four buttons, two adjusting nobs, and a power switch to control it. Two of the buttons are for adjusting channels and groups and one of the others is for toggle between the effects which I’ll talk more about later and the other is to change fan mode to increase at higher power. Looking at the fan (I like the yellow color) through the vent on top I felt it’s going to be loud even though it said silent but to my surprise, it's actually near to no sound for the time I worked on. I have tested the light Godox SL200WII with other systems existing around with different channels and the built-in Godox 2.4G works pretty seamlessly as any of their other products.Talking about the Built-in 8FX special effects, it has 4 kind of effects with different frequency’s that simulates flash, storm, TV and broken bulb. Out of all I love the broken blub, well this is my first time seeing such an effect live. The flash and storm are good as well with 3 frequencies each. And TV options good for straight on video. With all these the sellers is nice enough to throw in 8 color filters with looked nice.Now coming to technical aspects, the max power of 200W is good enough to light a decent-sized studio. It surprised me when I tried it in the sun, at 100% brightness it emits almost 74000 LUX bright at a 1-meter distance which is good enough to compensate the sun in daylight. Even at that intensity and wattage the max temperature never crossed 95F. Even though the color temperature is fixed around 5600K we can add color gels to meet our color requirement. I think an ask for an adjustable color temperature at this price is a big one. Lastly, it’s 2.4G wireless frequency has 32 channels and 16 Groups ranging from A-F and 0-9.

The media could not be loaded. I spent a little time using this light in different scenarios so that I could give an honest review. This light has actually been a workhorse that made capturing video and photo really simple and enjoyable.I have used it side by side with higher priced lights such as 300d and Forza 300 and it definitely can stand against those more expensive lights with no issue. For the power it offers it is a very small form factor and is great for indoor and outdoor use.Check out my video for a more in depth review. I also included a few images that I captured using the light as well.