Godox’s New Flexible Twin Light

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Godox has announced the Flexible Macro Twin Light MA2, a new hot-shoe lighting setup for macro and close-up photography. It uses two LEDs on separate flexible arms, so you can position each light independently around smaller subjects. Both sides have their own A/B controls, with brightness adjustable from 1 to 100% and colour temperature ranging from 2800K to 6500K. Godox does not give a guide number or lumen rating, so these probably are not super powerful lights. At close distances, though, they can be used as the main light, as fill, as modeling lights when setting up a shot, or as continuous lighting when shooting macro video.

The two LEDs can be adjusted separately, and the MA2 can also be combined with Godox’s wireless flashes and lights for more complicated setups. Small Godox flashes can even be attached magnetically directly to the flexible arms, so you could use the LEDs to set up and preview the lighting before switching to flash for the actual shot. Godox shows one setup using four iM20 flashes, with two positioned around each LED, and the system also works with compact flashes including the iM22, iT20, and iT22. There is a limit on how much you can hang from those arms, however, with each one supporting up to 90g. The LEDs themselves are rated at CRI 96 and TLCI 97, and Godox includes a magnetic diffuser as well.

Power comes from a built-in rechargeable battery, which is rated for up to 3.3 hours at full brightness. Since the LEDs are continuous, you can also keep them running as fill alongside separate flashes or simply use them on their own for slower-moving subjects where you do not need much power. The Godox MA2 Flexible Macro Twin Light is priced at $79.