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farss wrote on 9/1/2011, 9:30 AM
John,
thanks for posting that. I was going to make a short video but no point duplicating what that guy has done.

Just a couple of points not covered regarding the Z96.

1. Inside the box, under the moulded cardboard insert, you will find the plastic peg thingy you need to stack two Z96s vertically. We've had a few people discard the box and the peg.

2. If using a Sony battery to power the light remove the AA batteries. It seems both are wired in parallel and the 8V or so from a charged Sony battery will cook the AA batteries. So far nothing overly dramatic apart from the plastic blistering off the AA cells has happened but the batteries will be dead.

Bob.
amendegw wrote on 9/3/2011, 5:55 PM
Okay, my CN-160 arrived today (shipping is quick when you live 10 miles from an amazon.com warehouse!) First, the good news... It works!


Next, the bad news. This thing us huge! I guess I should have done a better job of researching this before I ordered it, but it's dwarfs my favorite camcorder - the Panasonic TM700.

...Jerry

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Former user wrote on 9/3/2011, 7:45 PM
Yep. I got mine today as well.

1. It is kinda large (~5.5 x 3.5 x 2.5), of course it's got to be big enough to hold 160 LED, but doesn't weigh too much even loaded with 6 AA batteries.
2. It works well and the dimmer feature makes it easy to use for really close-up images.
3. It doesn't have the multi-jointed hotshoe arm as shown in most photos of it, but has the single joint type which is very stable.
4. Someone mentioned the back when used with AA batteries. Yes the back appears that it would allow the batteries to fall out, but the door does keep the batteries in place just fine.
5. It comes with a minus green filter (kinda pink) to compensate for a slightly green tinted output. Although I took stills using it without the filter and the camera whitebalanced correctly.
6. It was mentioned that it vingettes quite a bit, but with the diffuser on, it's not that noticable.

So far, so good.

Jim