In this video, we're going to be taking a closer look
at the Sokani X21 LED video light.
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Let's get into it.
So let's give it a quick unboxing.
I'm just opening up the package.
Then, there's a little carry pouch
and what appears to be some coloured gel filters
and a screw thread adapter
and also the product manual.
Inside this carry pouch--
this carry pouch here is a double zipper carry pouch.
It's got two compartments there
and a little carabiner hook on the back here
that allows you to attach it to a bag or perhaps a belt.
Inside the first pocket is the light itself.
It looks like there's a couple of magnetic diffusers on the front here.
So, there's an orange and a white diffuser.
In the back pocket is a USB micro to USB cable
and...
...a little hot shoe mount with a ball head on the top.
So, that's all that's included.
I've got the Sokani X21 LED light on a mini light stand here with me today.
As you can see, it is a really small LED light.
It's about the size of a credit card and it's quite thin as well.
It's a lot thinner than some of the other similar lights on the market.
It's actually made from a metal aluminium casing which is really nice.
Some are made from plastic, so that's really a good feature.
On top of that, what they do have as an added bonus is magnetic diffusers.
These magnetic diffusers are included.
There's the soft white and the soft orange.
And they simply just mount on just like so.
So, you're able to mount the white or the orange or both at the same time.
if you're wanting just to soften the white LED, you can do that,
otherwise, you can go for the 3200 Kelvin or a warmer colour temperature.
On top of that, some of the buttons on the side here.
There's only three buttons overall,
so there's on/off button
and then there's also the plus/minus button at the back here.
So, the plus/minus button controls the intensity of the light.
There is no colour temperature adjusting features on this light.
It's a simple 5500 Kelvin light.
If you want to change the colour temp to a warmer colour temp,
you'd use the orange filter there.
On the back here, they actually have a little screen.
This screen is actually an OLED screen which is really good.
It's just a little indicator that shows your battery power
and also the intensity that the light is at.
So, that's a nice little screen to be able to determine
and fine-tune your output with the light.
Now, some of the accessories that are included are
the 12-colour filters as you can see here.
These 12-colour filters are made from a coloured paper.
They're sort of like a transparent coloured paper.
They come in a range of different colours; yellow, orange, red, purple, et cetera.
You can actually mix some of these colours up if you're wanting
to cast a different colour on the actual light itself.
Because the light itself is really strong, you're able to really tweak your lighting
depending on what you need for your sort of creative lighting jobs
if you're wanting to do product shoot or a portrait shoot, something like that.
They also include a little screw adapter, which I just grab here.
This screw adapter allows to mount it
to change this little included camera ball head adapter.
This has a little hot shoe on the bottom,
but on the bottom of that is a 3/8 inch screw.
So, you can actually mount that there.
If you use the adapter,
that allows you to mount it onto something like a ¼ inch thread like so.
So, if you're wanting to mount it directly onto lights
then you can do it with the included camera ball head and the adapter.
This camera ball head is really good as well,
because as I mentioned, it does have the hot shoe
so you can mount this directly to the hot shoe of your camera
and then from there you can adjust the light in 360º angle,
whichever way you want.
Now, another good feature of the light is the inclusion of a charging cable.
This is just a simple USB charging cable.
This USB charging cable, it's a USB to USB micro
and the micro input is just on the side over here of the light,
just below of the power button.
What you need to do is just simply charge that
and plug it into one of your USB charges.
So, if you have like an iPhone charger or a mobile phone charger--
most people have one of those nowadays,
so you can plug that directly in just to charge that.
It has an internal battery.
It's a 1600 milliamp battery.
That means that it does last quite a bit,
so you do get quite a bit of life from the light itself.
Another added feature is that you're able to actually use an external battery pack
something like this, to charge your light.
So, if you're wanting to charge it using the external battery pack,
you can do so there
and simply turn on your battery pack
and it starts charging up the light as well.
So, it's a great feature.
So, just running through some of the controls of the Sokani X21,
firstly, you've got the power button to the side here.
Simply hold that down for a couple of seconds
until the screen turns on.
You can see the branding comes up.
Now, at the top here you see the battery indicator
which shows your battery level.
On the bottom here, you've got the percentage output.
What you'll notice is although it's on,
the actual light itself is not on, so the LEDs aren't on.
What you need to do is turn the light on, and the LEDs on.
You simply press down once,
you can see the LEDs have now turned on.
Now on the top here you've got the minus and plus buttons.
That controls the intensity.
So, you can fine tune the intensity by 1% increments
or you can simply hold down
and that speeds it up by 10% percent increments.
You can go all the way down to 1%
or all the way up to 100% with this light.
Now, lastly, just how to turn it off
is simply hold down the power button once again
just for a few seconds and the light itself turns off.
It's really that simple.
Now, just some uses for the X21.
It's really a great light.
It's a small portable light.
So, you can use this as a lighting setup,
a small continuous lighting setup for a small studio.
So, if you're doing a product shoot, for example, you can do that
or you can even use it as some key lighting or some fill lighting.
So, if I'm going to just be using this as some key lighting now
I'll just quickly turn this on.
You can definitely see that across my face.
It can definitely be used, a couple of them perhaps,
as a lighting setup for videos.
You can definitely use that.
On top of that, you can use it on top of a camera
with the hot shoe mount included.
A simple run and gun set up.
If you have that mounted on your camera hot shoe
and you can use that for filming videos or even photo shoots,
using that as a source of light in low-light situations.
So, that was just a quick run through of the Sokani X21 video LED light.
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