Rotolight NEO 3 Streamer Lighting Kit

In my experience, Rotolight has always focused more on the quality, than the quantity of light from their fixtures. With the Neo 3 you get both. Years ago, I bought the original Neo, and although it's output was significantly lower than the Neo 3, I found the quality to be superb, especially when rendering skin tones. At that time several other manufacturers were producing LED lights, with much brighter output, for less money, but the light from most of them added a dreary gray cast that was especially unpleasant when trying to render skin tones. (Unless of course one was making a vampire movie.) Let's face it, whether you make your living in fashion, portraiture, television, film, or just about any other field of photography that involves people, when it comes to color space, nothing matters more than skin tones. And when it comes to LED lighting, no one does skin tones better than Rotolight. But the NEO 3 goes so far beyond beyond beautiful skin tones. The built in SFX, instant access to 2500 matched gel colors from Rosco and Lee, and millions of colors that you can create on the fly, makes the NEO 3 indispensable for anyone who wants or needs the ability to add color to a scene, but doesn't want to carry around a huge pack of gels. (The fact that the folks at Rotolight actually made the effort to sample all those gels in the first place is kind of unbelievable.) And as if all that isn't enough, the NEO3 can easily link to your cell phone, for complete access to the onboard controls! So when your NEO is mounted in a hard to reach spot, (like 9 feet above the studio floor) you can still make any changes you need with a couple clicks and swirls on your phone. My favorite mounting method when using the NEO 3 off-camera, is to screw an Impact Double-Ended Spigot with 1/4-20 threads into the bottom of the light, and clamping the 5/8 stud into a gobo arm on a C-stand. After test driving my first NEO 3 I immediately ordered a second one. Not only do Rotolights newest LED fixtures produce gorgeous light with an essentially infinite color palette, they provide a remote interface that is far superior to DMX. I applaud CEO Rod Gammons, his family and the Rotolight staff for their decision to steal the high tech interface from their Titan line, and add it to the NEO, AEOS, and ANOVA lines. You can now get the same fantastically intuitive interface and technology of a Titan, at a fraction of the Titan price. Last but not least, the lights are actually designed and manufactured in the UK, not a communist country. For the money, whichever model you choose, Rotolights are worth every penny.