La Luz L800 focus/video light

Peter Rowlands · Issue 64, Jan/Feb 2012 · pp. 34–35

Products mentioned: La Luz L800, Fix LED750DX

I’m sure you’ve heard the one about a microchip manufacturer whose business was developing so much that they had to move into a smaller premises, well the same could be true for underwater torch manufacturers. The advent of the LED (light emiting diode) has revolutionised underwater lighting and, when combined with good high ISO performance cameras is starting to offer a credible alternative to strobes. With these cameras being able to shoot stills or video it makes a lot of sense to consider LED lighting. Just as photographic technology is converging to produce stills/video cameras so too is LED lighting to produce aiming/video lights. La Luz Optics is a Hong Kong based lighting manufacturer and their L800 light is based around a single 10w CREE LED behind a focusing lens which concentrates the beam into an 80° circle with no hot spots. The output from such a small device is very impres…