We are taking PRO LED lighting to the next level with the latest technology from Rotolight
In 2021, 640 backers helped fund our first campaign to create the most advanced LED lights, the NEO 3 and AEOS 2. This campaign went on to raise an enormous £641,911, breaking the record for the most funded camera LED light on Kickstarter.
Here at Rotolight, we’ve been widely recognised and consistently awarded as one of the leading manufacturers in our field. Following the successful completion of our campaign, the NEO 3 and AEOS 2 have gone on to receive further recognition with several prestigious awards from respected titles, including T3, Photography News, Digital Camera, and Amateur Photographer.
Fast forward to today and we are back! We’re excited to announce our brand new campaign for what truly is the most advanced lights in the world. Meet the NEO 3 PRO and AEOS 2 PRO, designed and manufactured in the UK for photographers, videographers and filmmakers.
We thrive on feedback from our customers. It helps shape the future development of Rotolight products, enhancing the user experience and inspiring us to keep evolving.
Most importantly, we listen! We received some amazing responses from backers and customers about features they might like to see in future lights. So where did that take us next?
With both the NEO 3 PRO and AEOS 2 PRO available for backing in this campaign, let’s take a look at the extraordinary upgrades we’ve made and the impact these two British-made lights will have on your photography and videography.
Rotolight NEO 3 PRO
Experience unrivalled power and industry-first innovations in a compact form that you can take anywhere. A pocket-sized powerhouse boasting up to 25% more power, NEO 3 PRO is the brightest LED on-camera light ever made – so much so that it has twice the power of its nearest competitor! Powerful and portable, this light is a hero for hybrid shooters – if you can dream it, you can shoot it.
Rotolight AEOS 2 PRO
With the AEOS 2 PRO, the world is your studio. Combining the shoot what you see benefits of powerful continuous light with a High-Speed RGBWW strobe, AEOS 2 PRO offers unmatched versatility for photographers and filmmakers. Uniquely lightweight with an ultra-thin design, it’s never been easier to achieve beautiful soft light on the move. You can choose from over 16.7 million colours and 2,500 digital filters, giving you endless creative possibilities. Effortlessly access key features and recall your favourite settings at a moment’s notice thanks to an intuitive, full-colour touchscreen display. With AEOS 2 PRO, the impossible becomes possible.
A World of Colour at your Fingertips
Featuring state-of-the-art RGBWW chips, NEO 3 PRO and AEOS 2 PRO offer you limitless possibilities to enhance your creativity. Choose from an endless colour palette including 2,500 of your favourite filters from LEE and Rosco. Never has a light so compact packed such a colourful punch.
Unrivalled Colour Rendition
Get the shots you need the first time with Rotolight’s award-winning colour engine. With outstanding colour reproduction and a TLCI of 99, you’ll reduce editing time and achieve fantastic results with beautiful skin tones. You can create perfect portraits with Rotolight’s signature catchlight effect, eliminating shadows and adding a sparkle to your subject’s eye, or why not try the new green/magenta correction control.
Featured on both the NEO 3 PRO and AEOS 2 PRO, this new Green-Magenta secondary control acts like the “tint” slider in photoshop or lightroom, letting you get it right in camera and saving you time in editing, allowing you to produce the results you want the first time.
Both lights also feature the all-new ‘quick-access’ Kelvin presets in CCT mode, giving quick access to popular lighting scenarios including 5600K (daylight), 3200K tungsten, 4600K (midpoint) and 6300K (cloudy daylight).
Brightness Boost
Adding to the already impressive light output, the NEO 3 PRO and AEOS 2 PRO will have up 25% greater light output than the standard models, giving more power whenever it’s required.
Multiple Brand Wireless Flash Receiver Compatibility
Now with inbuilt Godox, Profoto Air, Elinchrom, Pixapro and Neewer flash receivers – an industry first – the NEO 3 PRO and AEOS 2 PRO provide ultimate flexibility for photographers wanting to wirelessly integrate Rotolight into their existing systems, or utilise transmitters already owned with Rotolight’s world first RGBWW flash capability.
High-Speed RGB Flash
NEO 3 PRO and AEOS 2 PRO combine the shoot-what-you-see benefits of continuous light with a High-Speed Sync RGB flash, perfect for more power or to freeze action. For the first time, you can flash in any one of 16.7 million colours or 2,500 digital filters for unlimited creative possibilities. If you can dream it, you can shoot it. With zero recycle time, the NEO 3 PRO and AEOS 2 PRO is a versatile flash lighting system that keeps up with you.
Intuitive. Fast. Responsive
Navigate through menus with ease with Rotolight’s industry-first intuitive, full-colour touchscreen. Revolutionise your workflow and save time on set by effortlessly accessing key features and recalling your favourite settings at a moment’s notice – for when creativity can’t wait.
100+ Masters of Light™ Preset Packs
Our revolutionary lights include over 100+ built-in exclusive special effects, GEL and HIS colour presets and accompanying tutorial videos from some of the world’s leading photographers and Emmy-winning filmmakers. You’ll have access to SFX presets designed by Emmy winner Stefan Lange, (Batman, Tombraider, No Time to Die), Cinematographer of the Year 2021, Denson Baker, (The Colour Room, Ophelia, The Lumineers) and HSI/Gel presets designed by leading portrait and fashion photographers including, Jake Hicks, Sam Nash and Jason Lanier, with more being announced during the campaign. Simply select your favourite creatives’ presets directly from within the light or via the Rotolight app, with an on-screen colour preview, delivering powerful creative options that save precious time on shoots.
And what’s even more exciting is these presets are also available in our pledges for backers and customers who already own the NEO 3 and AEOS 2.
4 NEW Special FX (SFX)
Adding to an already impressive collection of CineSFX™, including Fire, Lightning, TV, Gunshot, Paparazzi and much more, the NEO 3 PRO and AEOS 2 PRO come with 4 new presets: ‘Fireworks’, ‘Candle’, ‘Disco’ and ‘Throb’. We’ve also made numerous enhancements to many of the existing suite of SFX already found in the standard models. Customise, save and instantly recall your favourite settings to reduce time on set and add drama to a scene at a moment’s notice.
True Aperture Dimming (FDIM)
True Aperture Dimming utilises patent-protected Rotolight technology to calculate and display the light output expressed as an F-stop for a subject at a given distance, ISO and shutter speed, eliminating the need for a light meter.
Hardware Upgrades
This is something we’ve been asked for on many occasions and we’re excited to be able to show you this new feature – metallic red anodized handles on the AEOS 2 PRO and signature solid red anodized aluminium dials on both the NEO 3 PRO and AEOS 2 PRO.
Power You Can Depend On
With a bespoke, high-performance, rechargeable lithium battery, the NEO 3 PRO will never leave you in the dark, whilst the AEOS 2 PRO’s superior output uses only a third of the power draw of its closest competitors, making these lights a creative companion you can always rely on.
With the all-new Rotolight app for NEO 3, NEO 3 PRO, AEOS 2 & AEOS 2 PRO, available on smartphones and tablets, you can easily adjust kelvin, brightness, HSI, Gels, flash settings & SFX on up to 20 lights. Featuring a virtual replica of the award-winning touchscreen found on the back of the latest generation of Rotolights, the app offers familiarity and ease of use for existing customers. With real-time two-way communication between the app and the lights, all changes are instantly updated with zero latency, so you’re always in control.
SmartSoft™
SmartSoft™ technology was first introduced in our flagship lights, the Titan™ X2 & X1. This unique software enables you to focus and spread without the need for gels. Like a 216 diffusion on an adjustable dial, SmartSoft™ provides the flexibility of a beautiful soft output and a harder light source all in one, a technology we’ve integrated into our latest designs.
SmartSoft™ compatibility will be pre-installed in the AEOS 2 PRO and will allow you to electronically adjust your light’s diffusion via an electric diffusion panel, which is purchasable separately and will be available in the add-ons soon. SmartSoft™ purchased separately in add-ons.
Rotolight R90 & R120 Universal Parabolic Softbox
Made from a highly durable, reflective material, the R90/R120 are the ultimate softboxes, ideal for your key light for portraiture, wedding, commercial, fashion and video applications. This state-of-the-art 16-sided light-shaper is ideal in both location and studio-based settings, offering stunning, soft light output with a crisp edge that lends dimension and focused detail to the subject whilst producing natural-looking catchlights.
Rotolight Bowens S Mount Adapter
Unlock an endless suite of Bowens-mount modifiers with the new Rotolight Bowens S Mount adaptor for the Rotolight NEO & AEOS range, making achieving great soft light easier than ever before.
Rotolight Bowens S Mount Adapter
- Compatible with Rotolight NEO 1, NEO 2, NEO 3, NEO 3 PRO, AEOS 1, AEOS 2 and AEOS 2 PRO.
- The Rotolight Bowens adapter connects using an innovative fast-mount bracket to a standard Bowens S Mount, allowing movement forward and backwards on a rail and tightened inside your modifier.
- With one small easy height adjustment, the same adapter can be used to mount all NEO & AEOS lights centrally in the modifier.
- Continued access to adjust light settings on the touchscreen or wirelessly control from the Rotolight App.
It’s time to choose your package. We’ve included this handy table so you can see exactly what comes in each perk.
STEP 1 – After you have read through the campaign and decided on the best pledge for you, you can either click on ‘select options’ at the top of the page which will open a window with pledges available, or scroll down to the campaign page and select a pledge from the right-hand side of your screen.
STEP 2 – on this page, you can select from a wide range of accessory add-ons with discounts of up to as much as 40%! Simply find the add-on perk you like and click ‘add perk’. A window will pop up confirming your selection, click ‘continue to payment’. You can add more than 1 add-on perk.
STEP 3 – If you don’t want to take advantage of these exclusive discounts, you can click ‘skip this step’. This will take you to the final page to enter your card details.
STEP 4 – Indiegogo promotes the option to include a tip to help grow its platform. This is optional and if you do not want to do this, select ‘other amount’ and enter ‘0’ and click on ‘proceed to checkout’
STEP 5 – Enter your shipping address and credit card details, note: you may need to update the tip to ‘0’ again before submitting payment so please double-check. Read through and check the box by ‘I agree to terms and conditions’ once you have done this, click on ‘submit payment’ and you’re done!
That’s right, worldwide FREE Shipping – During our continued research and similar to our previous campaign, we are fully aware of the continued rise in global shipping costs, strike actions (UK) and delays at ports. This had originally placed a lot of constraints on the team, however with a lot of hard work and determination over the last several months and to show all our customers and backers our appreciation for the continued support, we will be committing to shipping all pledges and add-ons for FREE* worldwide!
Duties & Taxes
*Importation Taxes & Duty – We will be shipping pledges from the UK, these pledges will not be liable for importation duty as we will ensure they are cleared DDP (delivery duty paid), however, local fees or any additional taxes outside of the UK will be out of our control if picked up by border control and the backers will be liable for additional charges.
VAT
As we are a UK-based company, we will be able to supply a VAT invoice upon request
Rotolight is a pioneering British technology company specialising in creating award-winning LED lighting products for photographers and filmmakers. Known for constantly pushing the boundaries of innovation, Rotolight strives to create products that provide unique tools to image makers, allowing them to realise their creative vision and aspirations with ease.
Leading where others follow, Rotolight has developed countless industry-first features and has been widely recognised with numerous global awards and accolades for its innovation, technical excellence and product quality. As a family business, Rotolight has a unique long-term outlook that allows us to focus on continually investing in delivering outstanding quality products and a totally unique customer experience.
We’re fortunate enough to be partnering with some of the industry’s most extraordinary, world-renowned Photographers and Videographers, known as ‘Masters of Light’. Not only do they portray just how beautiful each subject is when shot using Rotolight products, but they also help us shape the next generation of technology, much of which you will see in the NEO 3 PRO & AEOS 2 PRO.
Following hot off the back of the launch of our NEO 3 and AEOS 2 just 12 months ago, we’ve been working closely with our customers, Masters of Light and independent lighting specialists to bring you a new and exciting line-up of ‘Masters of Light’ PRO edition LED lights, brimming with technology. We knew that the NEO 3 PRO and AEOS 2 PRO had to continue their path of ground-breaking features by adding even more power and functions. We set about reviewing all the feedback we received, as well as reading through online customer reviews, to better understand what changes you wanted to see.
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Press
If you’re looking for our latest press folder, follow the link below which contains images, logos, PR release and product information for the NEO 3 PRO and AEOS 2 PRO
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