NEEWER Ring Light 18inch Kit: 55W 5600K Professional LED with Stand and Phone Holder, Soft Tube & Bag for Tattoo Lash Extension Barber Makeup Artist Studio Video Photography Lighting, RL-18

Had this for some years now and it’s marvelous. The brightest light .. I love the many positions that we can change the heights..it’s pretty sturdy.I am interested in some of the replacement parts that have cracked over time..

This Neewer ring light has transformed my content creation! The adjustable brightness and color temperature provide perfect lighting for photos and videos. It's lightweight, easy to set up, and includes a sturdy tripod and phone holder. Ideal for makeup tutorials, live streaming, and photography. Highly recommended for both beginners and professionals!​

This light is AMAZING... I bought the 18’ ring. It is super duper bright at 100% and a nice soft glow at it’s lowest %. It was easy to set up and it is very sturdy!! I am very impressed with this ring light!! I was a little worried after reading some of the reviews that it would easily topple over,, so that was a concern, that it might fall over on him. Not worried at all because it is sturdy.... if he crashes into it, it will fall but any tripod would. The goose neck tube is very strong and stiff. It also comes with a nice padded carrying case to keep the ring light safe I’m an avid Amazon customer and rely on reviews. This is my honest and unbiased opinion.

This review is going to be a bit lengthy lol. First of all be prepared to receive absolutely NO instructions with this ring light whatsoever. You literally have to sit there and just play with it to figure out how to expand the tripod, how to snap the filters onto the ring light itself, how to mount the ring light onto the tripod once you've gotten the filters on, how to make sure everything is tightened down once fully assembled and finally, how to use the hot shoe camera and camera phone mounts that come with this set. (I haven't even begun to figure out how to use the Bluetooth remote that came with this set, and while I'm THRILLED this is included, it would be nice to have instructions on how to use it lol). This set includes TWO, I repeat TWO power cords, and one is for use in another country! This is great, but without instructions you'll be sitting there confused for a bit trying to figure out what to do with the darn thing. Very annoying!As far as the ring light itself, it's good. I'm a wig maker so I purchased the ring light to take better pictures of my mannequins wearing my wigs. I've attached 4 pics with this review, 2 pics taken with natural sunlight, and 2 taken with this ring light so you can decide for yourself which looks best. For me there wasn't a ton of difference. Natural sunlight looks just as beautiful as the ring light to be honest. The ring light did create more definition in the HAIR itself, but because of the ring light's brightness I lost definition in the mannequin. This kind of evened things out for me in terms of deciding which lighting, natural or ring light, is best for MY particular needs.I did go ahead and give this ring light 5 stars. Why? Certainly not because of the great instruction manual that came with it (scathing sarcasm). Because of the PRICE. Name brand ring lights of this size are literally hundreds of dollars, and I got this one for just a little over $120 on sale. This price, along with the fact that it was well packaged, with all of the necessary pieces/parts and performed well once I fired it up and started taking pics with it earns it 5 stars. But was it this incredible, MAGICAL halo of light that transformed my pics into something out of this world?? Nope. Not at all. For my specific purposes this light is only slightly better than natural sunlight. As you'll see in my pics.In all fairness though, I have to mention that I haven't taken any VIDEO using this ring light, which is typically what these lights are used for. Folks who make videos LOVE and swear by these things, so this may be absolutely fantastic for creating beautiful videos. But again for my purposes of photographing my mannequins/wigs, the difference in using the ring light versus not didn't blow me away. I do eventually plan to make videos using this light so I will come back and edit this feedback at some point once I see how it works for that application.In the final analysis, because of the awesome price of this ring light for what you get, I can definitely recommend it. But had this ring light been $200-$300 dollars or anywhere NEAR, it'd be going back.

I maintain a private web page of technical information and reviews, and have been trying to get more pictures added in to illustrate my choices of hardware and show walk-throughs of various construction projects. Lighting is always a problem for me though, and I bought this ring light recently to try to solve my problems of deep shadows, poor contrast, and glare. So far, this light has worked out really well in all those areas.The light is larger (wider) than the pictures in the listing suggest, and has a large number of individual LED modules in the ring, so it produces a very even lighting. I'm not using it for portraits so I don't need the orange diffuser or the remote. The body of the light is all plastic, which gives it a kind of cheap feel, but it's sturdy and being lightweight should help others. (it might not survive drops well, so be careful with it, make sure it doesn't get knocked over while in use) The stand is a thin metal which also feels a little cheap but that's good for the same reason as the body. The feet extend out quite a bit and create a surprisingly wide support base. Before i attached the diffuser, I found I was seeing speckles of light glare reflected off some of the shinier surfaces, but those "stars" all disappeared as soon as I attached the diffuser. I suppose the orange one creates better lighting for portrait pictures?It comes with a large power brick with an okay length cord. (could be a little longer, but that's not hard to fix with an extension cord) The dimmer is built into the bottom of the light, and has knob to turn to adjust brightness. The control does a great job of adjusting the brightness, and I love the feel of the knob, you can feel tiny "steps" as you turn the knob. It's also fully adjustable all the way down to completely off. Thankfully, the cord unplugs at the light, so I'm not struggling to manage a cord permanently attached to the ring.The light comes with several accessories for use with a regular camera as well as clipping a smart phone. There's also a little remote that I assume you can use with a downloaded app on your phone to trigger the shutter remotely, though I don't have any use for that and haven't checked it out. The light and accessories ship in a nice bag but the tripod is in its own box and cannot be stored in the bag that the light came with, which is a shame. But with the tripod fully collapsed, I've found it can be set snugly below your hand / on top of the bag as you carry it, so that will help with those that need portability. I would also suggest getting a small, stiff-walled zip pouch to carry the light's power pack and phone brackets with inside the main bag, because it has no inner pouch for these and just dropping them into the big bag to run around free is probably a bad plan.And not that I need it personally, but I think a battery pack option would be a very useful accessory with this light, which would improve its portability. The pack is 15vdc 4 amps, which may make finding a battery pack a challenge since I'd expect 12v power to be more common.So this is a great light for the price. There are only a few minor issues with it that can be addressed if needed, totally acceptable considering this light is like 1/3 the price of a more professional set with similar features and performance.

The media could not be loaded. This ring light is very bright. Sturdy on the tripod it comes with. Easy to set up. Dims and brightens easy. Bright and functions well for shooting videos. The ring itself is heavy for the platform it is on and even with the screw tightened,it will still collapse after a certain angle,see video.