Hello I'm Graham and I hope everyone's having a great day welcome to my product
review for this le 168A pro video light marketed by a company called Alliebe
who operates on the Amazon website I'll put links to this product description in
the video description below so you can actually check out the product yourself
now this particular LED light source is 168 LEDs in a matrix no the compactness
of the LEDs means that you're not going to get the micro shutters that you
sometimes find with these LED light panels if the LED spacing is a little
bit too large you see the shadows from each individual light but these are
nicely spaced so you're not going to get those micro shadows it measures 6 inches
by 4 inches by around about 2 inches that equates to 150 by 98 by 51
millimeters weights for 350 grams but that will depend on the power that use
and to drive this unit at the moment I've got the probably the batter that
you'll liked as a user this which is this Sony NPF 55 you can get the larger
ones at 970 but these are quite heavy batteries and if you're going to use
this on top of a camcorder then you are having considerably to the weight that
you're going to be carrying around so with this budget you're going to get
about two hours filming so it's probably couldn't be good enough for most
applications and you carry a couple of these batteries you're going to get
extended runtimes you can power it from alkaline batteries double a type or
nickel metal hydride such as the any loops which I've been using to test this
unit now in terms of other power options you've got the courrier which will allow
you to use Kalen batteries a carrier which allow you choose the nickhun
batteries and a carrier to use Panasonic and I'll expand on the types of butter
you can use in the video description you also have the option to use an external
power supply from 5.5 volts up to 9 balls now I've been using a power bank
which has got a 2 amp output capacity and a 5 volt to nine volt adapter so
that can go into the back of the units when you turn on the power bank then
you'll be able to power this unit from the power supply and run
for an extended period of time so you've got for many options there for powering
this device now on the back of the unit is a push button and that allows you to
test the capacity of the battery that you've got plugged into the unit and
I'll suggest it's going to be using the lithium ion as the main source of power
and this will relate to the hundred-percent 75% 50% and 25%
indication as the remaining part in the battery it's better if you turn the unit
on and turn it up to full power and then press the check button to see what the
indication is rather than trying to do it off load which might give you a false
indication of the power remaining now the unit does have a diffuser which just
slides into a channel on either side of the lamp and in that diffuser are four
holes which locate on some small pips on the plastic molding so it won't slip out
other designs I've seen used magnets which I think are a bit better to fit
than Hubble to slide this in and trying to locate it on the pins but that's
another show stopper in the case of this light as well as the clear diffuser you
get a diffuser which is designed to change the color temperature from the
daylight 5500 Kelvin down to the tungsten 3200 Kelvin so again it's just
a CTO and some diffusion and if I turn on the unit you can see that we've now
got an orange light rather than the normal daylight light obviously you're
going to reduce the power output from the light because you're adding
filtration to that white light now in terms of light output with the diffuser
fitted to the front of the unit and with the light sets one meter away from the
camera the exposure to give a normal exposure was one sixtieth of a second F
5.6 at iso 640 and with a light meter that gave me a lux level of 740 lux at
that 1 meter distance obviously we're going to fit the car tempera orange
filter you're going to reduce that output but I am naturally checked that
level now the construction of the light looks fairly good and I've actually
disassembled this to have a look at the electronics to see how they've been
assembled and how clean they have been after they've been assembled
and they're average for this type of product there's still a little bit of
residue of the flux on the circuit boards which normally with the
professional equipment all that would be taken off and topical eyes but in this
case it's normal for this type of product my only negative concern on this
particular light is the way that you adjust the intensity the knob is quite
small and it's quite close to the budget ray the knob itself acts as the on/off
switch as you turn it away from these home position the light comes on and
then you continue to increase the intensity to what you want but it is a
small knob and it's quite close to that so if you've got a big finger and thumb
you might find it a little bit more awkward to change the intensity now it
is possible to tandem these units together to give you a bigger light area
but it's probably better but buying a larger panel in the first instance
rather than each one of these on its own battery and charger etc probably a
better price buying a 12 by 12 panel instead of buying four of these units
and probably the price is about the same now they are intended to fit on the hot
shoe of your camera or camcorder and they do provide this adapter which
allows you to fit the unit onto the hot shoe of the camera just slides in place
and as with most flash guns this will lock down and lock onto the hot shoe now
that distance of one meter the camera it's probably the distance you'll be
using for your interview so the light level is going to be adequate for normal
video production so no worries about the light level and of course you can dim it
down if you want it to do so well that's it for my review of the le 1:6 a tape
Riley delight marketed by Ally be on Amazon websites so that's it for the
video thanks very much for watching please do check out my photographic blog
and I'm going to put a link to that in the video description below you'll find
lots more information on general photography more information on LED
light panels and in particular there's a lot more section here on photography
using Panasonic Lumix cameras and Canon full-frame cropped sensor and the CSC
EOS m series so until my next video as usual thanks very much for watching
please do take care and I hope to see you all in the next one
goodbye for now