18 inch RGB Ring Light | 45cm, 480 LEDs, Three Phone Holders and Remote

The short version

A 45 cm ring light that does colour as well as white. 480 LEDs sit behind the diffuser: 416 of them run the RGB range, and a separate 64 handle the white spectrum from a warm 2700K through to a cold 7000K. So it works as a proper key light when you are filming a face, and as a colour wash when you want the background to do something.

Three phone holders sit on a bar across the middle, each on its own gooseneck. One films, one runs comments or a script, one takes a second angle.

What you get

Dimming is stepless rather than stepped, so brightness moves smoothly instead of jumping between fixed levels. That matters when you are matching the light to a window that keeps changing.

Colour rendering is rated RA80, which is the honest number for this class of light. Skin tones hold up on camera; it is not a colour-critical light for product photography where exact reproduction is the point.

• 416 RGB LEDs plus 64 white LEDs
• 2700K to 7000K on the white channel
• Stepless dimming
• RA80 colour rendering
• 36 W
• Three independent gooseneck phone holders
• Remote control included

Worth knowing

It mounts on a yoke with a thumbscrew so it tilts and locks, and the clamp underneath takes a standard stand thread.

It runs from a mains adapter, not a battery. At 45 cm and 36 W this is a light that lives where you film rather than one you carry to a shoot.

The RGB and the white channels are separate sets of LEDs. That is why the white is clean rather than a mixed approximation, and it is the main thing separating this from a cheaper ring that fakes white by running all three colours at once.

You will need a stand or a desk clamp with some reach. A 45 cm ring does not perch on the edge of a laptop.

Specifications

• Ring diameter: 45 cm, 18 inch
• LEDs: 416 RGB plus 64 white
• White range: 2700K to 7000K
• Colour rendering: RA80
• Power: 36 W, mains adapter
• Dimming: stepless
• Phone holders: three, each on its own gooseneck
• Mount: yoke with thumbscrew and a standard clamp
• Boxed: 48 x 45.5 x 6.7 cm, about 1.3 kg

In the box

The ring light, a gimbal head, gooseneck phone clips and a remote control, with the mains adapter.