RGBlue video lights

Phil Rudin · Issue 104, Sep/Oct 2018 · pp. 51–55

Products mentioned: RGBlue System02-2, LM5K3000M light module, BM6700B/BM6700G battery module, RGBlue condenser lens, RGBlue snoot kit, RGBlue fiber optic remote control, System03 Twin Light Head, AOI Japan Co. Ltd.

AOI Japan Co. Ltd. is a company that many have only associated with its line of Acrylic and glass dome ports. Starting with the Olympus mirrorless camera housings ports, compact camera housings and recently released ports for the Fantasea Line housings. What you may not know is that AOI also produce the expanding line of RGBlue Video lights, Spot Beam lights, Twin beam lights, Screen Magnifier systems, compact tripods for U/W use, snoots and more. AOI distributes products in Asia, Europe, Oceania and The Americas. RGBlue’s excellent video lights are the subject of this review. The last time I did a dedicated video light review was for UwP76 in Jan/Feb 2014. Since the 2014 review in addition to video lighting I have been seeing video lights used more and more for stills both on and off camera. For still imaging video lights work equally well for both wide angle and macro. Many macro shoot…