Review: Adorama Flashpoint LED Lights

The Last Setup: Greenscreen

The last setup was a greenscreen setup where I wanted slightly more dramatic lighting on my daughter for her presentation about the island of Vanuatu.

I had two softboxes on the background to get the color as even as possible, and went for a shadowed look on my daughter, with the Flashpoint serving as key light with daylight spilling in from my windows as the fill.

I positioned the light close to my daughter without any heat-related complaints, and the light's color temperature matched the daylight coming in from the window perfectly. As you can see in Figure 8 (below), the soft light produced by both sources modeled the face beautifully.

Figure 8. The Flashpoint was on my daughter's right as the key light.

So where does that leave us? With only 250 incandescent or daylight-balanced lights, the 500C feels like a niche product suitable primarily for producers who need to support both incandescent and daylight-balanced light in single light. Given the improved mounting options and fit and finish, I'd recommend it (and buy it) in a heartbeat if it offered all daylight-balanced bulbs.

The 500 worked very well in my tests, but the quality issues that I and actual buyers experienced make it tough to recommend. Perhaps in a few months, if lots of positive reviews appear on the Adorama site, it might make sense.