Hi Carl here from ProAV TV and today I'm gonna run you through apertures new new
generation if you like of on-camera LED lights specifically they're tiny little
MX light which is incredibly powerful for what it is and they're slightly
larger more traditional on-camera light if you like the f7 so first let's take a
look at the little MX light they call this a successor to their previous m9
light which was another tiny little light like this which I really really
likes but the MX has definitely got an awful lot of improvements over the m9 if
you're used to that light the first thing you'll notice is that the physical
dimensions mostly are quite similar apart from its width this is a lot
thicker it's about twice as thick and about two centimetres thick it's also a
lot heavier the reason it's thicker and heavier is
this red bit on the back it's one huge heatsink and that is very much needed
because this is a really bright little LED it's way way brighter than the m9
was before it when we measured the m9 it gave us luck scores of about 127 Lux at
one meter so you can see from these scores here that will bring up on screen
now the MX is hugely brighter at the same distance away it's also very very
color accurate notice scores of 1990 LCI effectively which is just brilliant for
a little little light like this I absolutely love small lights like these
because you can basically leave them in your camera bag and you barely notice
that they're there when you don't need them and when you do need them they're
really handy really really handy indeed I see a lot of people using these as
catch lights for people's eyes I see a lot of people hiding them in the
background or booming them or clamping them to the sea
in small spaces as a backlight for subjects there's so many new different
uses for a tiny little LED like these so having one that's much brighter gives
you a lot more flexibility particularly if you wanted to hide them in the
background or use them as a backlight things like that you sometimes need
quite a bit of brightness and quite a bit of juice from your little light it's
all run off a built-in battery and that's charged from a USB C slot on the
side and the built-in battery lasts for about an hour of full brightness or four
hours minimum brightness so it's not quite as long as the m9 was before it's
obviously it's much more powerful but I should be plenty long enough for most
types of uses it comes with a built on diffuser on the front I reckon most
people are gonna leave that on pretty much all the time I don't see why people
it really does get a lot brighter without it on but you get much more
cross shadows and it's a much harsher light I recommend most people should
keep that diffuser on most of the time the controls on top are very
straightforward the only thing that's slightly out of the ordinary is the
little booster button this is a temporary boost for the light and it
gives it about an extra 20 percent brightness the reason that they haven't
just made a brighter light with that same technology is that this could
potentially damage your LEDs and make mean that your light have it has a
shorter life cycle so definitely shouldn't overuse that but it's
fantastic to have it there just as a little boost to get you out of trouble
when you need that tiny little bit of extra light overall really lovely little
light nice quarter-inch thread so that you can mount it anywhere you want I see
this being fantastic for pretty much any type of people working in the industry
here I think you should just get one of these and keep it in your camera bag at
all times I think I will
so let's turn our attention to the f7 this first glance is a much more
traditional on camera LED you've got normal array of tungsten and daylight
bulbs on the front no real diffusion on it and to get a lot of punch and a very
simple interface on the back with a Sony NPF battery slot nothing new there looks
like most other on camera LEDs on the market but what really sets this apart
is its brightness it is absurdly absurdly bright I will bring up the
scores now but I've seen one by one panels with a lot less brightness to
them than this tiny little on-camera LED and note another tha high score of 99
these are both very very color accurate lights which really shows that apertures
really do care about the color performance of their panels which is
just great to see so let's run you through some of what they've changed
with this light firstly it's very very lightweight it's only nine two hundred
and sixty grams compared to two hundred and eighty grams on the MX so although
it's a lot bigger than the MX they're very similar weights now of course it
doesn't have a built-in battery it relies on Sony one so you do need to
factor in the weight of your battery as well but you've got several other
flexible power options you've got a USB C port on the side for either pairing
off mains or maybe off of a USB battery bank like this one we've got here from
GP or you've got a full size D tap connection so with the DTaP to detect
cable or a pole to do tap cable you can use batteries like third party DV style
battery some sweats or large relock style batteries if that's what your rig
uses your camera rig it's a power both your camera and this led at the same
time which is so important you don't want to have different batteries going
on this camera rig at once you'll lose track of them and something will die
when the other ones happen it's much easier if your entire camera rig is
running off of one solo battery so that you can keep an eye on just that one
batteries check and swap it out when you need it makes
your life so much easier and so it's fantastic to have so many different
flexible power options you've also got a lot of mounting points you've got one on
the top one on the bottom and one on the right-hand side so for rigging this
either on your camera somewhere or as a backlight and in spaces it gives you a
lot more options now the secret to it being so crazily bright is the array of
LEDs like normal you've got tungsten balanced ones and
then more daylight balanced ones but rather than having those daylight
balance runs at 5600 Kelvin they've actually chose to make them way colder
apertures saying nine hundred and nine thousand five hundred Kelvin we've
measured it closer to soirée thousand it's not quite that cold but what that
does mean is that the sweet spot in between the two ranges when all of the
LEDs are on max brightness at the same time is almost dead on 5600 Kelvin which
is why when it's set to daylight it is so absurdly absurdly bright so that's
why it's so bright but it's also gives you that little bit of extra caught up
at the high end of it so that you could use that for more stylistic looks a
little bit of a bluer look to your light maybe they simulate moonlight something
like that or maybe just first stylized effect you never know it's nice to have
but the main advantage of this is definitely the brightness and it's worth
mentioning just how well packaged both of these lights from aperture are they
come with a nice case that come with all the accessories that you need for such
competitively priced products aperture really do put a lot of attention and
care to detail into their packaging and the accessories and their design of
their lights overall I think these are really fantastic solutions for on-camera
lights and not really even on camera just small LED panels that are
convenient and you can carry with you really really easily I really really
like these but let me know what you think and them in the comment section
down below and if you want to buy either of these lights they're of course
available on the probe website links to them are in the
description down below thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the
next one