Ring Light Recommendations?

[Daniel John]

Hi All-

I have an upcoming shoot where the director has requested an on-camera ring light. Any suggestions would be appreciated as I haven't used one of these in many years. It would
be going on a Weapon with Leica R's.

Thanks in advance.

Daniel

 

[Jamie A]

I recently bought the Ikan iLED-RL ringlight. Has 15mm and 19mm rod mount options. Comes with 2 Sony NPF batteries and 2 batteries can mount on the back. Each battery lasts about 2 hours at 50% power.

I can definitely recommend this ringlight...

 

[Ben Scott]

F&V R300 is inexpensive and puts out a lot of light.

 

[Hugh Scully]

I was an actor on a feature that had a doc-found-footage vibe. They used a ring light. I thought that it might not work but that light looked a lot better than I thought it would. It's obviously fronty but pretty diffuse. The effect was to vignette the scene with pretty good fall off without being blowing out even on close ups.

 

[Daniel John]

Okay, thanks Jamie and Ben. Going to look into those two options..

 

[Steven Grevis]

+1 for the F&V Ring Light, used it a lot for nightclub work very soft diffused light. Like Ben said, throws out a lot of light