Best value uw video light in 2024?! 🔦🤷🏻‍♂️ Reviewing the Divevolk SL120 underwater video light

[@AquaticRod]

Quality looks pretty good. Pleasantly surprised. I think that 5600 Kelvin is nice, but 6500 Kelvin would had been even nicer.... I do not know why a lot of the manufacturers like Kraken are making lights that are 5000 Kelvin, which causes a lot of issues with mixed light, and make you stay on the editor for hours trying to get all the red out of the shot. In this sense, Divevolk is doing better than Kraken. I was interested in this light, until you spoke about the battery life. 30 minutes is an issue for me, because I do most of my dive with the lights on close to full power. I find that switching lights on and off makes you miss a lot of shots. Also, creatures run away even faster when you change the light intensity on them. 160 degree beam angle would had also been nicer...

[@MatthiasLebo]

Thanks for your inputs mate. Yeah, I understand that 30 minutes runtime is less than ideal. I guess it's the compromise for such a strong underwater video light in such a compact form factor. I usually try to run it at 50% power (which is still 6000 Lumen and quite enough for most situations) for most of the dive and only increase to 100% when really needed. But I totally understand that this is a deal breaker for you. I'm pretty sure though Divevolk will release more models soon and hopefully one that will have a longer runtime too. 😉

[@celestisyn]

Hi, thanks for the informative video regarding video lights. Is it possible to operate regular underwater camera strobes (for stills), like the Backscatter Mini Flash 2 via the Divevolk housing/smart phone?

[@MatthiasLebo]

You’re welcome. ☺️ You would have to attach the fiber optic cable to the front glass directly in front of the internal flash and shield it somehow so it doesn’t cause any reflections when firing. DiveVolk doesn’t have a system for this yet.