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MIX AND MATCH With the small Kenro as a key light and the powerful full-colour Neewer giving a red kicker, these boots really stand out
are. RGBWW mixing technology produces more than 90% coverage of Rec. 2020 HDR colour space – while that is not quite as much as some rival lights, it’s not as expensive either. To set the colours, you can adjust HSI in 1% increments to hue, saturation and intensity, or try RGB with extra cyan and warm white options. A button on the rear panel lets you change the colour modes, and a dial sets the exact figure needed. It’s very simple, which is helpful when you’re tweaking colours on-set. A colour screen tells you everything you need to know.
course, dial in some colour and that output drops, but it is a hugely powerful beam that can easily cope with the largest Bowens mount softboxes or parabolic boxes. If you want to use it as a bicolour, then it offers a temperature range of 2500-7500K, with 0-100% flicker-free dimming. To test that, we pushed it with some NTSC 60Hz settings shooting at 240fps on our Sony A1. Despite being in a 50Hz PAL area, there were no issues at all. Green-magenta adjustment of +/-50 makes for easy, precise tone changes, while the CRI and TLCI of 97+ shows how faithful the colours
Alternatively, gel modes let you set one of 20 Lee or Rosco colours, or switch to CCT mode to set colour temperature and green-magenta shift; all incredibly simple, just as it should be. You can’t manually tweak these gel settings, but very few would find it necessary. As is the case with most full- colour LEDs, there are built-in scene modes and in the case of the Neewer, you have 17 of them. Dial in simulated lightning, paparazzi flashes, police car, candle light, TV screen, explosions, fireworks or more. Since it’s a colour fixture, the effect is pretty believable too.
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