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Colbor CL220R RBG LED light

Not that long ago, if you wanted to use coloured continuous lighting, you needed either to spend a lot of money, or to buy a set of gels for your standard daylight head. However, in recent times the price of RGB LED heads, tubes and panels with red, green and blue colour diodes has dropped in dramatic fashion. By this, I mean that the technology has become so cheap that new manufacturers are coming on the scene with very low-cost units.

We’ve seen a lot of one-colour and bi-colour lights from brands like Nanlite and SmallRig, but not so many with full RGB non-tube heads. So this CL220R from Colbor is a little unusual.

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The Colbor CL220R is a revised version of the firm’s CL220 220W bi-colour head, but with the introduction of RGB LEDs to add some colour to the mix. While

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