Westcott Ice Light? Any opinions

If you're going for portable, powerful, and daylight... save your money and get a Yongnui YN-300 would be my suggestion...
 
omnikron said:
If you're going for portable, powerful, and daylight... save your money and get a Yongnui YN-300 would be my suggestion...
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Yeah I have to agree with that. I have added a spigot to the YN-300s I have so that I can use them on stands and I really like them. I have them set up to use with my Sony batteries. You can also put in the Sony batter adapter AC adapter and use them with AC power. I really like the lights and for the price is right. I would pick up a couple of YN-160s also. They can be powered by AA batteries and stuck anywhere.

The Westcott light looks very cool but $500 bucks for the equivalent of a 150 watt tungsten just does not make sense to me.
 
I am just wondering how they figured 1160 lumens is equivalent to a 150 watt quartz halogen filament. I would also like to see how bright that would equate with the tungsten color correction gell clip on. Also I see many images demonstrated with the unit up close like around 2 to 3 feet away from the subject.How does one get a head to toe shot WITHOUT getting the unit in the frame. Or is it just for tight waist-up shooting ?
 
Norman99 said:
I am just wondering how they figured 1160 lumens is equivalent to a 150 watt quartz halogen filament. I would also like to see how bright that would equate with the tungsten color correction gell clip on. Also I see many images demonstrated with the unit up close like around 2 to 3 feet away from the subject.How does one get a head to toe shot WITHOUT getting the unit in the frame. Or is it just for tight waist-up shooting ?
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Yeah I thought it looked nifty until I saw he was just a couple of feet away from the subject. For the price it really isn't worth it. Maybe something like that with 4 or 5x the lumens that allows you to change temperature, dim and maybe Hue would be worth 500$
 
A TV station here has a couple of those ice lights in their inventory. They swear by them, love them and are their weapon of choice for promos and commercial shoots.
 
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I rented one the other day. Good for a hair light or nook. Nice smooth wrapping effect. No punch, not worth the $ IMO
If they were $200, I'd buy three!
 
John Foundas said:
Only if you're trying to grow weed LMAO!
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I have a couple of lights like that. The only time I used them was to light a night car interior for a poor man's process shoot back in the SD days. Their use is limited, but I still keep them around.
 
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save your money and get a Yongnui YN-300
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the problem with all those "array" style LEDs is you have to diffuse the hell out of them to keep from getting "multishadows" and by then youve killed a good chunk of their power.

id be really curious to see just how effective a naked ice would be compared to a similarly priced (and diffused) array-stye fixture.
 
I did make a single shadow led with high output like around 2400 lux at 3 feet by using a rectangular reflector to project a rectangular beam of 70 degrees wide by 40 degrees vertical. The design called for two 10 watt leds placed as close as possible to each other acting like a single led source. That was possible by filing down the 20mm star board of the leds to halve then and then cementing them in place with a gap of .25mm between them. The light outputs the equivalent of a 150 watt halogen yet consuming around 24 watts from the battery.
 
wgzn said:
the problem with all those "array" style LEDs is you have to diffuse the hell out of them to keep from getting "multishadows" and by then youve killed a good chunk of their power.

id be really curious to see just how effective a naked ice would be compared to a similarly priced (and diffused) array-stye fixture.
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that frame grab I posted was a naked Ice hair light
 
“sounds interesting. do you have photos or performance shots of that?“
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The two round TIR optics are of a very narrow 15 degree spot. Both combined to output approximately 30,000 lux at 3ft. When I really need to get the brightest illumination at a 75 ft. distance.( like when the bridal party is announced at the reception)
The rectangular reflector houses the two side by side leds that projects a super wide rectangular almost 16 : 9 HD ratio. Even light distribution without any center hot spot.
This is a custom build. It has a switch to choose the beam angle or both if needed for a centre highlight spot. There never was a 20mm star board that has 2 leds mounted. The light measures only 3 inches wide and is powered by a single Sony NP-F760 battery that slides in the back of the light. Chassis is aluminum and dimmer is 0-100%, no banding issues as led driver is non PWM type. Battery lasts 80 minutes at full pop. I do not sell the unit as it is a one off.
 
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