Perfect light for small areas and on the go!
By Tucker
Rated 5 out of 5
Date: 2025-02-20
This thing is small but powerful! It has proved to be the perfect light when I am lighting scenes in a tight space and there is no room for bigger lights. Easy to mount, easy to adjust, and tons of different mounting and accessory options! Not to mention this thing is extremely bright for how small it is. Would reccomend to anyone looking for a compact high quality light!
Extremely Poor Quality, DO NOT BUY
By Dennis
Rated 1 out of 5
Date: 2024-08-17
I have bought a ton of lighting gear over the years for my news shop and personally. I have never seen anything this bad. One of the most critical connection points - the accessory mount of the fixture is held by a tiny plastic pin, see pictures. It's ridiculously thin and fragile, and the whole mount is plastic but that pin won't hold even for a couple of days under moderate use, trust me. It's so thin and tiny, it barely locks anything new out of the box. The Bowen's adapter accessory is even worse, extremely flimsy and again, secured by a very thin, fragile plastic knob and pin. See picture. The tiny reflector accessory is also of the worst quality I've ever seen in a light, I mean to the point that it's comical.
The biggest use case is to have a compact, very bright light is to travel and use it with bowens mount accessories and soft boxes as big as 36 inch (I mean it's 150w, it can handle easily), but guess what, it can't hold any accessories because of how bad the mounting on the light itself is and the bowens adapter itself. Another very poor design choice is the round knob on the bowens accessory unit, it's so small and non-grippy, you simply wont be able to secure your softbox, fresnel, etc. That tilting connection is very cheap plastic, it simply won't hold anything. My photogs drew a diagram on how they should have designed it to make it usable, using metal levers instead of plastic knobs and switch sides on one of them. Also, use metal, aluminum or something similar for the tilting point. See picture. I mean guys, this is not rocket science.
Seriously, who designed this light? Sirui, wassup? You actually make decent monopods and things. This light quality is very poor even for Temu, what were you guys thinking selling this on BH? I haven't seen quality this bad for $15 lights. I'm not exaggerating. In our news shop we have lighting gear raging from $15 to $8K per fixture.
I'm very open to changing the review if you make the critical parts metal or made of any durable material, like the locking pin on the mount. Switch the redesigned lever to the other side so they don't hit each other on the bowens mount. Redesign and use harder plastic with locking metal pins for the bowens adapter, immediately. It's completely useless. The only quality piece is the actual mount on the bottom of the light, it's solid. The heat sink is solid as well, everything else is very cheap but the mounting points are completely unusable. Also the mounting point has no reference, a bad design choice. This product completely ruins your brand name and reputation. Shame.
Otherwise, this light has potential if redesigned, I think the brain may be good (only time can tell), it's just you cannot take this light anywhere on travel, you'll be stuck with a broken unit you won't be able to mount anything in the middle of your trip. $2 quality, incredibly poor design and manufacturing choices.
Sirui, fix these issues and let's talk. Otherwise I would like to warn everyone to not waste your time and money. Do not buy this light. I'm returning it, my whole news shop got a very good laugh out of this, a nice joke on a Friday night. Now it't time for it to go back where it came from.