Gaffer & Gear 288 - Nanlite Pavoslim 240CL

I swapped the carry handle to have the pin attachment instead of the ball mount.

Pavoslim VS Infinimat 😅

Great review. Very interesting piece of gear for someone like me, who is typically a one-man-band videographer. Popping this up instead of a 220 or 300 with a 4ft softbox would save a lot of time. And price seems pretty good too. Might have to pick this up soon. Thanks!

Solid gold.

I hear low-end dimming isn't great either - Bobbinet should fix that issue and CTO/CTB to fix the lack of spectrum level CCT-Range should solve it.

I understand the cable tie solution, but with all those mounting holes in the centre surely someone has made a locking clip that could go there instead?

Great review as always! I own a pavo 120 which has a very similar ball adapter (minus the handle of course). I've not looked at this but the balls from memory are textured. I wonder if you opened one of those adapters up if you could get in with a Dremel and roughen the sockets up so that the ball and socket joints had a bit more friction with each other.

Thanks for the review! :)

As always great review.

Nanlite are clearly listening to you (and rightly so). You asked for this form factor very recently! But they seem to have rushed this to market without checking back!

The cable tie safety solution looks workable, but shouldn't be necessary. The ball mount is embarassing in this case, and they should have realised that.

I'm seriously considering this light and I'm assuming I would just use the pin mount, the only thing I'd lose is the handle (I think I can cope!) Are there other issues with this thought?

Obviously, the other thing is the eggcrate, They really should understand the importance of this.
And how it is used.

Thank you for the review. Seems like a solid choice.

We have old 4’ Kinos at my work. I’m trying to convince them to replace the Kinos with these. I think it would be great for studio work.
Plus, the number of times I’m in the field and need a big, soft source, I often need to set up a 3x3 or 6x6 and push light through that. (I don’t have a large COB with Bowens softbox). This would be a nice and fast alternative to that setup.

This really speaks the deal for me. Been debating on the godox vs intellytech vs gvm. I love the pop out feature

I spent almost $5,000 on Lite gear spectrum not I'm seeing this option in the market.😢 I barely use the pixel mapping function. Build quality on the nanlux metal actually seems stronger and more robust than the plasticore litmat.

Nice!

Hey Andrew,

Great Review. I’ve yet to purchase any of these Pavo slims. I love the form factor. The Engine feels similar to the Amaran panels. Love them; use on all my Small movie shoots. Hate the Amaran CRMX-less control box and extra stuff I need to make them work on my CRMX IPAD infraestructura…

But honestly my main complaint with the Amaran is that they are really too bright for dark lit movies. 1% is as low as they go and it’s too bright.

How is the low end on these panels? With CRmX can you dim it pretty low if you go 16bit?

Thank you for the review, so great

When is the new aputure storm 80 and 1000 review coming out?

An observation about the ball mount.
I just picked up a couple of 120C's and within the first 5 minutes I'd managed to strip the threads of the tightening knobs on both mounts!
I wasn't doing it any tighter than I would have thought reasonable (It's possible I got a couple of sub standard ones).
However, the point is, I replaced the knobs with a couple of adjustable lever handle type knobs that I had, they have brass threaded inserts.
the mounts now work really nicely and seem to hold very firmly. Not tried with a 240CL though.

would the Kupo Super Grip Double Baby Receiver kcp 412 replace the ball mount ??