Review Lencarta Quadlte Continuous Light:

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Well decided after a bit of looking about to get myself some Lencarta Quadlte Continuous Lights to use for Video work, have to say was a bit worried they might not be up to the job, but after reading some reviews pulled the trigger and got them.

On arrival of the package I was surprised, not sure what I expected but the package that was delivered was allot bigger than I expected. Well opened the box to check them out and soon realised why the package was so big, the bulbs where huge :) first thing I wanted to try was putting the Softbox together as normally struggle with them, the Softboxes came in there own bag, unpacked and liked the little touches like the rods all being kept together in a single cap at each end, putting the box together was very easy, in fact probably the easiest I have ever done.

Got the chance to give them a test run at the weekend when testing a new model, set them up to do some video, and at the same time decided to do some stills while shooting the video, well I can say was very happy with the results, plenty of light for shooting both video and stills, stayed cool which is one of the reasons I went with them, would love to show the video, but the content would not be allowed on the site, and as it was a test shoot don't think it would be fair on the model to link to it, sorry.

All in am very happy with them, they give enough light for my needs, seem to be well built, the only down side is portability, one of the things I wanted as shoot all over the place, but can live with that.
 
Hello there, thank you for the review. This does look like a good option.

So it comes with the lamp, bulbs and a softbox? If it does come with the softbox you mentioned, is it square or rectangular? I saw an article about this product which said at a distance of 1 metre and with 800 ISO, at full power you would get a proper exposure of 1/60th second at f/13 (or 1/800th at f/4).

I like the thought of shooting at f/13 handheld, but would rather not have to increase my ISO above 100 (I don't have the best camera in the world, so noise is quite obvious).

Could you please test this again and tell me what settings you managed, to push this lighting setup, but still produce good quality, sharp images? Also note your distance from the model.
 
ISO800, 1/60th sec @ f13 would give you 1/60th @ f4.5 at ISO100 at 1 metre this does not give much scope for moving the lighting.
 
If I get chance will shoot some stills, mainly got them for video though :)
 
EdBray said:
ISO800, 1/60th sec @ f13 would give you 1/60th @ f4.5 at ISO100 at 1 metre this does not give much scope for moving the lighting.
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True, but the benchmark 100 ISO used to express the capability of studio lighting is just that - a benchmark. Most people with modern DSLR cameras are happy to use them at ISO settings of at least 800.
 
Garry Edwards said:
True, but the benchmark 100 ISO used to express the capability of studio lighting is just that - a benchmark. Most people with modern DSLR cameras are happy to use them at ISO settings of at least 800.
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Very true, but then I was only responding to Sheepdisease who stated he didn't want to go above ISO 100
 
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