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Godox, a institution known for its maestro photography cogwheel for illustration flashes and reflective umbrellas, has announced a caller lighting merchandise for smartphones. Its MA5R is simply a magnetic powerfulness slope pinch an array of diffused color-changing LEDs connected nan backmost that tin amended telephone photography while keeping artillery interest successful check. It’s priced astatine $49 and while you tin preorder it done online specialty stores, charismatic readiness isn’t known.
The MA5R attaches to MagSafe-compatible iPhones, smartphones supporting nan Qi2 wireless standard, aliases mobile devices upgraded pinch a magnetic ringing connected nan back. It tin too beryllium utilized handheld, but Godox didn’t spot a modular tripod equine for attaching it to stands — an overseas omission fixed nan company’s lineup of pro gear.
The MA5R uses color-changing LEDs to reproduce a wide scope of colors and colour temperatures.
Image: Godox
The accessory tin beryllium controlled done nan Godox mobile app complete Bluetooth, which allows its colour somesthesia to beryllium adjusted crossed a wide scope — from 1800K (warmer) to 10000K (cooler) — truthful you tin lucifer nan lighting successful almost immoderate environment. You tin too opt for a wide scope of colors if you’re looking for a overmuch melodramatic lighting effect, aliases return 1 of “14 pre-programmed emblematic effects” which could beryllium useful erstwhile shooting video.
The MA5R includes an further smaller LED connected different broadside that tin beryllium utilized to amended nan lighting of selfies.
Image: Godox
On nan different broadside of nan MA5R, adjacent to its magnetic mount, is simply a mini show showing artillery life and lighting brightness. There’s too a smaller front-facing LED ray that tin beryllium utilized to amended selfies by rotating nan accessory while it’s attached to a phone. It offers a smaller scope of colour somesthesia adjustments betwixt 2800K and 6500K.
The added lights mean nan MA5R is 13 millimeters dense truthful it’s not precisely going to vanish erstwhile attached to your phone. And it’s only sewage a 5,000mAh artillery inside. That’s tin to support its LEDs moving for up to 3 hours and 40 minutes astatine afloat brightness, aliases up to 7 hours and 20 minutes astatine half brightness, but not alternatively tin to afloat recharge galore smartphones overmuch than once.
Wireless charging too stops while nan LEDs are turned on, truthful perchance deliberation of nan MA5R’s charging capabilities arsenic a prize characteristic for what looks for illustration a coagulated portable lighting solution.