Newhooter declare Rotolight NEO Light Kit as Best Solution Yet

When Newsshooter said they wanted to review our latest edition to the Rotolight family, the NEO 3 light kit, we of course jumped at the chance. Matt Allard, who would undertake the review, is an award winning, freelance director of photography with 25 years experience, meaning he was well placed to put NEO through it's paces!

The Rotolight NEO 3 light kit is built upon the next generation of on-camera LED Lighting, the Rotolight NEO, a revolutionary on or off camera LED lighting fixture designed for the most demanding of professionals.

NEO includes three groundbreaking features that set it apart from the field. Designer Fade mode for custom fade up / fade down production effects and True Aperture Dimming which accurately calculates the correct aperture (F-Stop) for your subject at a given distance. Finally, an arsenal of Cinematographic Special FX (CineSFX ), provides customisable creative visual lighting effects, on set or location (Strobe, Lightning, Fire, Cycle, Throb, Police & TV). It is impressive to see a light of this price have these capabilities said Matt Allard ACS, Technical editor, Newshooter.com

The most important factor for me when choosing a light is colour accuracy.

The Rotolight NEO received one of the highest ever TLCI scores for an on-camera/ENG LED. NEO performed very well at 5600K, 6300K and 4500K and needed almost no colour shift on the ARRI Amira .

When Newsshooter compared NEO to the Litepanels Sola, Allard stated you could see just how much colour shift there was. At its normal daylight operation the Sola had a +3.3 colour shift, meaning the camera needed a lot of magenta added to the image to correctly white-balance. The Sola was even worse in 3200K when using the included CTO gel, showing a massive colour shift of +4.0 CC .

NEO boasts an industry leading Skin tone CRI of 99, something Newsshooter specifically highlighted in their review The NEO handled skin tones very well and provided a nice soft source that didn't create harsh shadows .

One of the unique features of the NEO is the True Aperture Dimming function. This allows NEO to calculate the correct F-stop for your subject at a given distance. This is a very clever feature the results are very accurate indeed. It can save you a lot of time when setting up your lights declared Allard

The Rotolight NEO 3 light kit is the ultimate location/studio lighting kit and includes 3 x NEO lighting fixtures, 22 filters (including diffusion, skin tone, magenta and colour FX), compact lighting stands, Hot-shoe adapters, 360 ball head swivels, and power supplies, all of which fits into an injection-molded, impact-resistant case, which includes wheels and retractable handle, ideal for airline travel.

All in all, Newsshooter found the Rotolight NEO three-light kit to offer very good value for money Not only do the lights produce a nice soft light, but they are very colour accurate .

Every compact three-light kit I've seen is a compromise but the Rotolight NEO is probably the best solution I have tested

Head over to Newsshooter to read the full review.

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