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Jeff Goodman, Wildlife and Underwater Cameraman, reviews
the Ikelite Pro-V8 Led Underwater Video Light for Cameras Underwater.
Underwater Video lighting is a fine art and part of the difficulties
lie with equipment that is not up to the job. Hot spots, frequent
leaking, poor coverage, short burn time from batteries all contribute
to an unhappy dive and cameraman
While running my wildlife underwater video filming courses
I need a small compact light that will be easy to handle and
give a good even light with no hotspots. The Ikelte Pro-V8 fills
both those requirements with the added bonus of being fairly
well priced at around £209 which includes vat.
The 3 x 5W high intensity white LEDs give around 350 lumens
and with a full battery pack of 8 x C-cells will last for about
10 hours, which theoretically is around 10 dives. Which is very
good. But, I would have liked the option of a rechargeable battery
pack which in the end would save on overall cost of batteries
as well the additional weight of spares when flying out on holiday.
Otherwise the light handles well in the water and is robust
enough to take a lot of punishment when handed back into the
boat where the nice man has 5 others divers all hanging on waiting
for him to take their gear.
The method of opening the light to change batteries (and look
for leaks) is easy and very uncomplicated. A dimmer on the on/off
switch would have been a good option but now I’m being fussy.
The flexible arm gives a good option of fitting the light to
the camera housing if that’s the way you like to work.
Good filming.
Jeff
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Light
source: 3 x 5W high intensity white LEDs. 350 lumens.
Colour temp: 4500
- 5000K (daylight)
Power source:
8 x C-cells, Alkaline or NiMH.
Depth rating:
90m
This ball is not a 1 inch ball and can't be used with
a clamp attached
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