Rotolight Pro - Surprising and disappointing Results 

i have the Neo 3 and that 1/50s setting on the light is pretty important: i believe that is the light’s t1 flash duration (my speculation, not confirmed by Rotolight) which means to achieve this output your camera’s shutter speed needs to be 1/50s or SLOWER. your temp also needs to be at 4600K (this one is in the manual). i have a video that attempts to explain this as i did experiments all day today to find answers. now i kind of understand why there’s a flash duration setting on the lights (which no other OEM does): Rotolight knew it’s impossible to get full power at SS faster than 1/50s…so they need to let user adjust flash duration…however by adjusting it (to make it faster) you ALSO lose power…that is why they “recommend” to keep it at 1/50s.

Congratulations on telling some truths about these lights. I also had some trouble initially getting my AEOS 2 to trigger from my Profoto flash trigger but after a day, it started to work fine. Like you, I actually love the lights for their versatility in color gels. I am old school and remember the days of bright and very hot, hot lights. I am not keen to return to the days when models squinted through the brightness. The flash power is low (about setting 4 on my Profoto B10 plus - that is about 8ws.) I can do it if I have to but I will continue to cut gels for the foreseeable future. There is a very good reason why the ‘hard sellers’ claim the lights are soft as you point out, they are not bright enough to put in a soft-box or shoot through a scrim unless the iso is pushed significantly. The color tech is brilliant, no question but the half-truths are disturbing and unnecessary.

If I could choose one more time, I would buy profoto. Completely disappointed with this product, waste my money.

interesting for sure, thanks for all your hard work

Did you say you’re not getting high speed sync at 1/80 of a second? Even 1/180 is too slow. I don’t know what the sync speed of your Leica camera is, but it should be faster than that. I would assume it would be faster than 1/250

Well said, it is frustrating when it works intermittently. I own the NeO3 myself. Have you try on the Nikon Z series cameras….. apparently a lot of triggers Does not work. Many thanks.

Also on the Titan when you would switch between max and max plus on the flash, it would actually color shift to 4300 K and warm up the image. I haven’t experienced that on the Aoes’s twos. But because I know that can’t happen I almost always shoot a custom white balance.

the miss firing youre experiencing isnt because of thyhe rotolight its because of your camera . I had the same problem with my canon R6,but when i switched over to another camera those issues were gone so this review is pointless.

Interesting results on the flash power. I’m going to test mind this week and see if I come up with the same results.

When you swapped from Rotolight to Rotolight Flash did you turn the controller on then off after changing to flash?

Elinchrom remote works for us on Canon R5