Sony HVL10NH 10W Battery Video Light for Compatible Sony Camcorders

Product Details

What's in the Box
Video light and accessory shoe adapter.

Product Reviews

(1 stars) - Terrible light in every way
I have this light for my Sony HDR-HC9 and it is horrible. Let me explain why:

1. Too expensive. As you can see from the other cons below, don't waste almost 100 bucks on this thing.

2. It's HUGE. It literally feels like it doubles the size of the camera when it's on.

3. It WILL NOT hold a battery charge. It blows through non-rechargeable batteries at a record pace, and don't bother trying
rechargeable ones unless you want to use it for 2 minutes. Oh, and don't leave the batteries in it, cause it'll drain them even when it's off.

4. It's a pain in the butt to turn on. There's a safety lock on it that makes it almost impossible to turn on with one hand. It turns off with one hand fine, but you won't have to worry about that b/c it'll run the batteries out before you have to turn it off manually anyway.

5. The battery temp light starts flashing after about 5 minutes, assuming the batteries actually lasted that long.

6. The shape bugs me. It looks like you've got some sort of weapon attached to the top of your camera. Or rather, since it's so huge, it looks like you've got a small conveniently-sized camcorder attached to the bottom of a weapon.

Yes, the one I have might be defective, but I had it replaced once already and it's had all the same problems. I'm going to toss this light into a river.

I also feel like I should apologize to anyone who bought this recently for not posting this sooner since I've had it for 6 months.

(3 stars) - Okay light with flimsy shoe
I bought this toplight for my Sony HVR-HD1000U prosumer video camera. It's only okay, not great. It's very much a spot-light type of toplight with little-to-no diffusion. Also, the mounting shoe is fairly flimsy molded plastic. It doesn't fit all too well in the on-camera mounting base as it is and it snapped really easily when a little pressure was applied to the light.

I had to go buy a new one less than a month after buying this one.

(3 stars) - Sony camcorder light
I found the light to be only useful for close-up work where light is required. It provides little for anything more than a close one on one video recording. And that is what I wanted it for anyway!

(1 stars) - WILL NOT HOLD BATTERY CHARGE AT ALL
This is an extremely poor product. It constantly shuts off and states that there is a low battery charge. It is so unreliable that I'm looking for another light for my camcorder. I do not recommend the product becuause it simply doesn't work.

(4 stars) - If you have a DCR-SR40 - it's your only choice...
a little heavy - and although the adapter bar is nice - it would be even nicer if the camcorder (DCR-SR40) had a 'hot shoe' to use directly with the light...I'm a little turned off that I have to use special batteries (it strongly recommends using SONY rechargeable AA alkaline batteries and warns against using regular AA alkaline batteries - so that's a minus in convenience...this is the ONLY light I was able to find that was compatible for my camcorder but overall, the lighting is good. Lastly, this was the ONLY light that SONY admits to being compatible for my camcorder - but that's more a minus for the camcorder itself I think!

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