Review: iFootage Anglerfish SL1 130BNA

“Daytime Light” 130W LED lighting

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iFootage Anglerfish SL1 130BNA

I’ve been testing the 130 Watt SL1 130BNA model of COB LED light and covered many aspects in a video.

It’s a light I’ve got for expanding our YouTube video-making capabilities, but also for potential use on some of my industrial photography. As such I was also interested in the capabilities of the new ‘low blue light] LEDs which promise a better colour rendition.

I’ll be re-visiting the capabilities of the lamp with further testing in due course.

The speadsheet and graphs referred to in the video are included in this article.

This can be controlled via the rear settings or via the iFootage Lumin software, which I installed on my iPad and iPhone [[Android version available]

Rear controls and power inputs

iFootage Anglerfish Specifications

• MODEL SL1 130 DN
• WEIGHT 0.79kg
• DIMENSIONS 154 x 96 x 152mm
• MATERIALS Aluminium alloy,
stainless steel, PC
• WORKING TEMPERATURE -15°C~45°C
• SSI CIE-D55 * 83
• SSI CIE-D27 * 91
• IES TM-30 * Rf 96 Rg 100
• CQS *96
• CRI 98
• TLCI* 99
• COLOUR TEMPERATURE 5600K±200
• BRIGHTNESS RANGE 0%~100%
• MAIN LAMP – 100% ILLUMINANCE (5600K)* 3800LUX
• WITH REFLECTOR – 100% ILLUMINANCE (5600K)* 14000LUX
• CONTROL METHOD Bluetooth APP control,
manual button control
• WIRELESS FREQUENCY 2.4GHz
• BLUETOOTH TRANSMISSION DISTANCE 15 METERS

Other iFootage Anglerfish lights

The lamp reviewed here is one of a matching series of lights from iFootage

Daytime Lights

• Anglerfish – SL1 – 60DN
• Anglerfish – SL1 – 130DNA
• Anglerfish – SL1 – 200DNA
• Anglerfish – SL1 – 220DN
• Anglerfish – SL1 – 320DN

All these lights can be controlled by the iFootage software, and using the same LEDs will be easier to match.

Testing CCT accuracy

Using my Datacolor Lightmeter, I’m able to measure the effective output and CCT of the light.

• Info about Datacolor Lightmeter

Measurements at 10/25/50/100% settings were taken at 200K steps to give the data shown here [click on any image to view full size]

Luminance values are relative – as measured by the sensor at the same position.

iFootage Anglerfish output and CCT

Looking at output vs CCT setting, the dual LED lamp shows in the variation of output with set CCT.

iFootage anglerfish output at different CCT settings

The second chart shows measured vs set CCT values.

The key thing to note is that measured CCT varies with brightness [at the same CCT setting] and that this is much less linear at low output settings.

The numerical values are shown for 10% and 25% output settings.

iFootage anglerfish CCT reading vs set CCT value

How is the light to use?

It’s well built and has a capable and well padded bag to carry it. The fan [I had it set on Auto] is very quiet.

If your LED lighting is more than a few years old, the improvement in light quality will be noticeable, although for product photo use I’d still want to make some custom DNG profiles.

I also had the full size Bowens fit adapter which allows for larger/standard lighting modifiers. By having its own lighting stand attachment, it means that you don’t need to worry about the weight of the modifier pulling on the mount of the lamp.

There is an optional battery grip available too – it takes V mount batteries.

Control software [iFootage Lumin+]

This is simple to use and offers refinements like being able to control and memorise presets for groups of lights.

My only reservations being the slightly involved registration requirements and that a few labels in the display were still in Chinese. These niggles didn’t really affect the actual utility of the software though.

Video overview and review