Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

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.