Godox Flash "GodoxPhoto" Mobile App Remote Off-Camera Flash Operation Test

The Godox flash is currently recognized as a second-tier product with fairly high cost-performance; at an inexpensive price you can buy usable equipment, and the gap from the flash systems favored by professional photographers, such as Profoto, Norman, and Broncolor, has already shrunk to the point where people compare them.

When the author purchased the Godox flash system, the wireless trigger (TTL Wireless Flash Trigger) chosen was their “X2T,” which provides Bluetooth wireless transmission, allowing a phone to directly remotely control the various indices and flash settings of the flash via the “Godoxphoto” app.

Please refer to the image below. The Godoxphoto app interface is simply designed, with only five major functions: camera, flash, LED light, settings, and Bluetooth.

Godoxphoto

The flash and LED light functions are similar. Please refer to the image below; you can directly adjust the flash power (LED output power and color temperature), channel, and modeling lamp in the app, and it is directly reflected on the connected flash unit.

However, during the author’s testing, although the flash power could be conveniently adjusted via wireless transmission on the phone, the modeling lamp’s action could not be stably controlled, showing that there is still a gap between the app’s design and actual application.

Remote flash adjustment

The camera function is similar to the built-in camera of a general phone, with the addition of adjustable ISO sensitivity and shutter speed, but this is not very meaningful, and is not as practical or interesting as the “ProCamera” mobile app the author paid for.

Originally the author thought that some small items could be shot directly with a phone or tablet, without having to bring out a large camera, and good photos could be triggered and taken via Godoxphoto, then edited and sent on the tablet, everything imagined to be beautiful.

But with Bluetooth transmission between the phone and the trigger, and the manufacturer’s own proprietary 2.4GHz wireless transmission technology between the trigger and the flash, the combined delay made triggering the flash for a shot via the phone almost an impossible task. The author shot ten consecutive frames, and not one captured the flash’s light (gazing into the distance).

One piece of advice for those who want to buy the Godox flash system: don’t be like the author and imagine it beautiful. Specs like built-in Bluetooth or phone photography should be treated as marketing, and can be completely disregarded as purchasing criteria.