Sima SL-20LX Ultra Bright Video Light (Silver)

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review




Impressive For The Price, November 11, 2009
By Brian M. Edwards (Edinburg, Texas USA)
Even though I read several reviews, I was still pleasantly surprised with this gem-of-a-light which beat my expectations. It arrived well packaged on time and after charging it for a few hours, I tried it out in a few different scenarios.
It seems to work best where there is some ambient light even if quite dim.

I tried shooting children in near pitch dark at a nearby park and although it lit up the kids well enough to record some decent video, light drop-off was significant beyond about 12 feet. I recommend shooting with foliage or a wall/fence/whatever at about 15 feet to catch the light and avoid having nothing but black beyond your subjects.
This light is very impressive when shooting video indoors, it really made a big difference, and the colors look much better. I did not experience any hues, blue or otherwise using this light.

The build is OK, and it is very easy to use and fits easily on the hot-shoe on my camera. The biggest downside to this light is that once the battery dies, you either need to stop filming (or stop the function you are filming) but on the plus side, I got about 1 hour and ten minutes of use out of it and it still had some battery life left. Over the approx two hours I used it, I was careful to switch off the light between filming.

It works well as additional light when using flash and can be used in place of flash but comparing photos, I found photos were better with either a flash or using the light to assist the flash( great for eliminating red-eye!)
All in all, it is a very useful light which takes up little space in your camera bag but works very well.
I deducted one star due to the none removable battery otherwise it is a super little light and I wholly recommend it.




excelent, November 3, 2009
By Clara Ines Reyes Torres (Bogotá, Colombia)
the light is perfect por dark shots. the only problem is the shot batery life. it was perfect if you can used it when is charging.



SIMA LIGHTS LIT THE WAY, October 5, 2009
By Donald Valentine (Boyertown, PA)
I ordered two of these SIMA SL-20LX lights for my camcorder. I ordered two because of the wedding reception event I was filming ws going to be about 3 - 4 hours. The lights performed well and gave me more than adequate lighting for the shots I was getting. I turned the lights off when they weren't in use and was able to go the whole night using just the two lights. People have commented on these lights as casting a slight green tint to their subjects. This can easily be fixed by setting the white balance in your camcorder. Though I did not notice any green tinting. I did not have to adjust my white balance. Extremely great product for the price!



Recomended, October 2, 2009
By E. Gonzalez (Los Angeles)
It is a good buy for the price and easy to use,
but I would have liked if it had more light power.



Great Item, September 30, 2009
By Chris Labuen (Palm Springs, CA)
This item is blindingly bright, up close. It doesn't have much of a range but it's good enough. It has a slightly blue tint so maybe some color gels would be useful to add warmth. This item charges fairly slow considering the amount of usage time (about 45-60 minutes on a 3-4 hour charge). It would have been nice to have the option to use AA batteries. Overall, you can't beat this price for an item like this. This is a great value and would be extremely useful for home video type recording. Best of all, these lights are stackable.

Despite the description stating it's silver I got it in black, which was a plus for me because my camera is black.