Sirui C60B LED light

Review/video of the 60W mains/battery lighting kit

Keith has been looking at the Sirui C60B LED lighting unit.

Note This review and video are looking at the device purely from the point of view of a photographer – we don’t do video in our professional work.
2025: The C60B has been the standard video lighting for many of Keith’s videos [full index]

It is mains powered, but with the option of using batteries (NP-F style).

It provides a variable intensity light from a bi-colour LED system, giving a colour temperature settable between 2800K and 7000K

The device is available from Sirui:

• Product info

Note – there is a 5% [lighting] discount code of ‘northlight’ if you order. [NB this is not an affiliate link]

In 2025 I reviewed the much smaller Sirui C60X – a ‘Pocket’ lamp with a built in rechargeable battery. It works with the same control software.

See Keith’s YouTube video review of the lighting unit.

Sirui C60B LED lighting

A lot of my commercial photography is out of the studio. Even when of a ‘studio style’ I’m often working in corners of factories and spare rooms where a key requirement for any lighting is flexibility.

The Sirui C60B lighting I’m looking at here, gives me mains and battery power options.

Like many, I know Sirui for their specialist lenses – so was interested to have a look at one of the Sirui C60B LED lights when they asked if I’d like to test it.

What do you get

Actually, a useful feature, since I cart this stuff about in the back of my car – a solid and well padded bag.

The light is a standard Bowens fit and comes with a basic reflector.

The grip assembly attaches firmly (1/4″ standard tripod fitting) and gives a nicely balanced feel if holding the light.

At the bottom of the grip is a standard lighting attachment – it fits the assorted lighting stands I’ve collected over the years.

There’s a mains power supply – the Sirui C60B unit takes 16.8V at up to 5 amps.

The unit can be also be powered by two NP-F batteries.

There are a range of suitable NP-F battery models from 550 to 970 which vary in capacity.  These are not supplied. If you are getting some, note that many basic USB chargers will take several hours to charge the higher capacity version. This is not necessarily a bad thing – fast charging can affect long term battery life.

The batteries are connected in series, so be wary of mixing old and new or different capacity cells.

The LEDs

The LED block is a matrix of cool and warm LEDs. It’s mounted on a sizeable heatsink and backed with a powerful, but quiet fan.

Some shots of the LEDs at different colour temperature settings show how the CCT setting is implemented by varying the relative levels of the warm/cool LEDs.

Controlling the Sirui C60B

The controls on the back vary colour temperature and brightness.

Pressing the set button allows for a range of flashing light patterns. So if you need a flashing light outside a window on a theatre set, to give the impression of lightning, this is for you… [image from Sirui]

The button is also used when you want to pair the bluetooth connection with your phone, using the Sirui app.

The phone app works quite well – once I’d got it set up to control the lighting.

Now, any issues were more likely because I rarely carry a mobile with me, so bluetooth is not something I normally have any use for (yes, seriously ;-)  )

You can control multiple lights and groups of lights.  I tried it at about 10m distance and it worked OK – good for what I’m likely to need…

Sirui C60B colour accuracy and camera profiles

Experience with LED lighting tells me that whilst it’s improved a lot over recent years, if you want more accurate colour rendition, then making a custom DNG camera profile can help.

With the free ColorChecker camera calibration software you can create a profile for a single light setup, or if it’s variable make a dual illuminant (DI) one. See my LED ring light review for more detail about profiles and making them.

For the C60B I’d suggest single illuminant profiles at a known temperature if you are setting up a product shoot for example. Watch out for other lighting in the room though. Setting your lights to a nominal 5600K for ‘daylight’ when the room has some warm white lighting (~3000K) can cause problems with colour in shadows. I know from experience working on location at companies, that you don’t always get the ideal place to set up your kit.

Using the Sirui C60B lighting

Up until recently I’ve used flat CFL lighting panels for portable supplementary lighting for product work. However they are fixed output and lack the flexibility I want both for real use and for the bespoke product photography training I do for businesses of all sizes.

I do use flash for some work, but find it takes rather more setup and can also lack the flexibility of the LED lighting.

One area I’m looking forward to using the lighting, is for supplementary lighting on interior shoots. This is where a full lighting setup may not be warranted, but variable colour temperature fill lighting may be just the job.

Conclusions – Sirui C60B LED lighting panel

The variable lighting is great for matching ambient lighting – something I always appreciate given where a lot of my industrial work is carried out.

It’s powerful enough for a good range of uses – remember though that I don’t do video, so that’s for stills applications.

I’m keen to explore using this light further for some of our product photography training, maybe with a medium softbox.

Sirui also do a fixed light version, the C60 – similar, but without the variable colour temperature – it is somewhat brighter than the C60B

–ooOoo–

You can find the Sirui C60B lighting and more info at [code ‘northlight’ is good for a 5% discount on lighting products] Note that this is not an affiliate link.

• Product info

Specifications

• Weight: 700g
• Size: 92mm x 96mm x 110mm
• Luminance at 1M 2300 lux  (C60 3000)
• Battery model: NP-F 550/570/750/770/950/960/970 etc.
• CRI 96 average (TLCI 98)