Review on Bolt VM 110 Macro Ring Light by Carlos Macy

Funny! I SEE A RING in my photos! I have two wide angle lenses, one 28-135mm (diameter 72mm) and the other 19-35mm (diameter 77mm). In both cases I see light when I attach it to the lens. It looks like I'm watching a 1970's TV movie through binoculars. The light itself seems to work well and I really wanted to use it, but had to zoom in a lot to bypass the light or drastically crop each image. It's just really, really stupid. Okay, I've spent a few hours on this. I can't say good things, rather bad things. It makes this loud, very high pitched, very annoying beep all the time while it's on (continuous glowing). I bought it for videos, not photos. My camera microphone picks up sound. Completely unacceptable - this thing is actually useless. The audio is muted when you turn the lights to max brightness, so the audio must be an artifact of how it dims the LEDs - doesn't matter, does it? Secondly, the battery is continuously drained within two minutes after switching on. The light started blinking even though they were fresh when I put them in. However, I will say that I left the light on for another 15 minutes and although the battery gauge is still flashing, the gauges are still lit, so I think this issue is probably more related to the battery gauge not knowing what's saying than with the fact that it consumes too much electricity. . That thing just doesn't work with wide-angle lenses. So if you have to work with close-ups, this is a big mistake. It can still work for photography.