NEEWER RH12B Pro 12" 30W High Power LED Ring Light

NEEWER You did it again! I love all of the NEEWER camera accessories I had already and I expected this one would not disappoint... I was right. I run 2 youtube channels. I shoot a lot of stuff on location but I do need to do some stuff in studio and correct lighting has been a challenge. I think about all the time and energy I wasted trying to shortcut the lighting with fluorescent lights and desk lamps not knowing I could have purchased one of these for less money and have it ready to use right out of the box. Where have you been?!. This was easy to set up in about 5 minutes without having to read the instructions. The level of adjustment for both temperature and brightness is infinite and the controller has a digital read out so light levels are repeatable. It also has an on-off remote control too. Being a guy, when I first took it out of the box I didn't realize that an entire stand comes with this too. This is a top quality stand with cam lock adjustments on 3 or 4 sections. The light comes with a ball mount with standard 1/4-20 thread so it will mesh up to any standard tripod (so I learned the hard way :-) the light has at least 2 female 1/4-20 female threads embedded in the outer ring 90 degrees opposed to maximize your ability to adjust camera angle. I really could not be more pleased and I'm sure this is going to be a game changer for my studio video work.

I am very pleased with this setup. The ring light is very bright at 100% and has fairly wide range of color temperatures, although I wish it had even warmer settings. The minimum is 2900k, which is cooler than many warm white bulbs in a home, so 2800k would have been a smidge better. If you were looking to enhance a candlelit scene, something warmer would be needed. That said, for most tasks, the ring light is more than adequate.The primary wire to the ring light is not removable. The issue with that is that it complicates screwing it onto the light stand or other 1/4" holder, as the wire is fairly long and has the controller at the end. It's a lot of wire to spin around the light stand. It would be quicker and easier to mount with a plug connector on the ring light.The ring light control is fairly straightforward, with one button switching between color temperature and brightness, and + and - buttons to raise or lower. When adjusting the color temperature, the temperature shown as 2 digits, with 30 meaning 3000k, for example. There are also mode settings which might be useful if you're shooting video. Options include lightning, explosions, welding, TV screen, Fireworks, and others. The icons on the control are tiny. Too small for my 65 year old eyes.The USB power source is surprisingly nice, being a PD model.The light stand is nice enough. It's fairly heavy, being made of steel, but that's fine with me for light stands. The ball head is very functional and useful. The height adjustments are all secured with simple screw clamps. Nothing fancy, but it works. The thumb wheel on the 1/4" screw mount makes it easy to secure the ring light firmly. The holder for a phone seems well-made and should fit the vast majority of phones. It attaches and removes easily.One little item that had missed my attention in the listing was the remote shutter button. It's a coin battery bluetooth button that you pair with your phone. Its bright orange should make it easy to mask and delete in many editors if you can't figure out a way to keep your hand out of the photo. On my Android phone, it defaults to working as a Volume Up button. Within the camera app, there is a setting for what actions the volume buttons perform. I just needed to setup mine so that Volume+ is the shutter release. One concern is that there is a sliding on/off button for power. It would be easy to forget to turn it off and find it dead the next time you need it. I would prefer that it turned itself off after several minutes. There is a small LED on the corner which lights when powered on, but it's not indicative of it being on or off. It shows as connected on my phone, even after that LED goes off.I might have liked a case for the stand, phone adapter, and shutter release and a removable wire to the ring light, but other than that, this checks a lot of boxes.

This ring light is VERY bright. The stand is sturdy and it adapter for holding the phone worked well with my iPhone 11 in its case The control has two different modes. One is a constant illumination which the controls will let you adjust the brightness. I adjusted it down to about 20% to use in a webcam set up. If you wanted to illuminate a room, it has enough brightness for that. The second mode is a scene mode which I assume is for video effects where it can simulate different things like a lightning strike or welding. There are many different scenes to choose from It comes with a shutter release remote that you can pair your phone or iPad with using bluetooth. I tested that and it takes a picture with the camera app when you press the button. I liked seeing that the power adapter had the safety test house ETL marking on it.

I love ring lights. I never knew the purpose until I started dating my lady, who worked for a photographer for a time. There's no way to get better lighting for your pictures or video than a ring light. I decided to start making YouTube videos and needed a good ring light stand so when I saw this listing I had to try it.It arrived in a nice box and contained the ring stand and a Bluetooth shutter button. Everything was in near-mint condition.Assembly was pretty simple. The ring light screws onto the tripod, then the phone stand screws onto the ring light. The phone stand is the only weak part of this, and where it attaches doesn't hold the best, but it worked well enough.In use, this is a nice ring light! There are a TON of lighting adjustment options, several modes that I don't yet understand. At the most basic level you can adjust the warmth and brightness, which is really what you need for filming. The extra modes and functions are bonuses.The tripod is nicer than I expected, and you can control how far out the legs go. Once deployed there are three quick adjust segments to adjust the height. The tripod is very well built and rugged, I don't think this is going to fail at any point soon.Overall I'm very happy with this ring light. The phone stand part is replaceable, and of all of the features is the only part I want to replace. The ring light itself is excellent, and the tripod is very solid. This is a great kit to get started at photos or videos with a ring light.