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So...
I went ahead and got myself a MicroBeam 256 from FloLight. Hadn't read anything bad about it, so I though what the heck.
Turns out it's actually a nice little powerful LED for the price... BUT.
The first night I tried it out on a test shoot, the sheer weight of the battery (NP-F attached to the NP-F mount on the back of the light) turned out to kinda lose connection with the pins or... something, anyways the light would not stay on, if I held the lamp itself without supporting the battery.
Apart from that, it had scratch marks, marks from having been mounted with the accompanying hotshoe mount, the dimmer was unresponsive / with latency and the color filters were scratched / full of dust. ( I documented this as soon as I opened the package... which by the way had been opened and resealed with hardwarestore brown tape, ie. not factory seal)
Now when I made the payment, I expected a pristine product, not something used or demoed.
I contacted Proav along with Prompter People in the UK. After some back and forth I agreed to return it at my own expense for a replacement.
So, it went away and I waited 2 weeks and finally got the package just now. Now, am I wrong to say that anyone having experienced the above would be on their toes at this point? Atleast I was....
Here's what I found:
- Looks like they resent the same filters... only now they had them stuffed in one of those small transparent plastic bags you get at the supermarket for food.
- There were still scratch marks and small bumps, including the mount mark around the mount hole.
- There's now a mark on the dimmer knob as well, as if it hit something and some of the plastic was chipped off or dented.
- They put it all back in the same box as before, sealed it with more of the same brown tape over the old tape and now the box has a dented corner as well even thought it was tightly wrapped in bubble wrap.
Alas I don't have a battery here, so I can't test it yet, but frankly... to me it looks like they resent the same product after having beaten it up a bit more.
No need to say how incredibly disappointed I am with this... I don't know who to blame, but I only wish to say, that I can't endorse either proav.co.uk or Prompter People / FloLight.
In short... check one of the other shops out before going for the MicroBeam 256.
I went ahead and got myself a MicroBeam 256 from FloLight. Hadn't read anything bad about it, so I though what the heck.
Turns out it's actually a nice little powerful LED for the price... BUT.
The first night I tried it out on a test shoot, the sheer weight of the battery (NP-F attached to the NP-F mount on the back of the light) turned out to kinda lose connection with the pins or... something, anyways the light would not stay on, if I held the lamp itself without supporting the battery.
Apart from that, it had scratch marks, marks from having been mounted with the accompanying hotshoe mount, the dimmer was unresponsive / with latency and the color filters were scratched / full of dust. ( I documented this as soon as I opened the package... which by the way had been opened and resealed with hardwarestore brown tape, ie. not factory seal)
Now when I made the payment, I expected a pristine product, not something used or demoed.
I contacted Proav along with Prompter People in the UK. After some back and forth I agreed to return it at my own expense for a replacement.
So, it went away and I waited 2 weeks and finally got the package just now. Now, am I wrong to say that anyone having experienced the above would be on their toes at this point? Atleast I was....
Here's what I found:
- Looks like they resent the same filters... only now they had them stuffed in one of those small transparent plastic bags you get at the supermarket for food.
- There were still scratch marks and small bumps, including the mount mark around the mount hole.
- There's now a mark on the dimmer knob as well, as if it hit something and some of the plastic was chipped off or dented.
- They put it all back in the same box as before, sealed it with more of the same brown tape over the old tape and now the box has a dented corner as well even thought it was tightly wrapped in bubble wrap.
Alas I don't have a battery here, so I can't test it yet, but frankly... to me it looks like they resent the same product after having beaten it up a bit more.
No need to say how incredibly disappointed I am with this... I don't know who to blame, but I only wish to say, that I can't endorse either proav.co.uk or Prompter People / FloLight.
In short... check one of the other shops out before going for the MicroBeam 256.
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