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And this one will be comparing
and reviewing the Spectrum
Crystal Luxe, 13-inch LED light.
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So I've got the Crystal Luxe 13-inch
LED light with me here on a stand.
LED lights are increasingly becoming
popular and can be used by a variety of
different creatives, such as photographers,
videographers, or content creators.
You can use it for still photography.
You can use it for film.
You can also use it for content creators.
Some examples include in photography.
Because they are daylight-rated or
they are colour temperature adjustable.
You can use it for still photography,
such as portraits product photography.
Or if you're taking shots for like
food photography, they're perfect.
When you can't rely on ambient lighting such
as natural light, and you need to supplement
it with some sort of lighting that you
know is going to be accurate and you can
adjust and you can fine-tune to your scene.
You can also use it in film,
they're light and portable.
And you can actually use them in run-and-gun
setups or set them up quite easily on a stand
just like this, they can be battery operated
or powered by AC and also for content creators.
If you're a content creator on YouTube, for
example, or a streamer, or if you are like
a makeup artist, or if you're just doing
videos, short videos, they're perfect to
use because you can rely on this light source
You don't have to rely on
something that's always changing,
such as natural light from a window.
The Spectrum Crystal Luxe, 13-inch led light is a
fairly unique led light in regards to its shape.
So you can see here, it's quite a wide
light, so it's 13 inches in length
there, and it's also quite narrow.
So you're spread of light's quite wide.
So going through some of the physical features
here, firstly, you've got a slide in diffuser.
Now when you slide that off there
it reveals all the single LED bulbs.
There's quite a few LED bulbs
there to produce that output.
We'll do some tests shortly and
comparing it to other lights.
Now, when we slide this back in, it's fairly
easy to just slide the diffuser back in.
You just need to.
Line it up and then it
slides straight in like that.
Now jumping into the back here, you
can see it's currently plugged into AC.
So the actual plug here just goes into
the side of the top right side here,
and it also supports battery operations.
The battery operation, the battery, it
supports is the Sony NPF series batteries.
That's the same from the majority of LED lights.
Um, but you can see, it actually
only requires one battery to operate.
So that's great knowing that you don't need
two batteries for some larger led panels.
Um, you need to operate.
You got the on, off switch here as well.
And you've got a little toggle button
here that toggles between the intensity,
as well as the colour temperature dial.
So when you press that down, once
more, you can see the LCD display has
changed to the color temperature, and
it reverts back to the output there.
And you've got up buttons and down buttons here.
And, and if you.
Press that it all obviously
goes up in terms of output.
It's going up in one step increments,
or you can hold it down if you'd
like to speed that up quite a bit.
And the same for when you're pressing it down.
Now it's the same when you toggle
over to the colour temperatures
and now it's set on 4,300 Kelvin.
If you wanted to drop it down, you can
go all the way down to 3,200 Kelvin.
And all the way up to 5,500 Kelvin can see that.
Now the great thing about the Crystal Luxe
light is the colour temperature
and the power adjustment dial.
So you can see there when I was
just showing the colour temperature,
adjusting, it actually adjusts in
10K increments.
So you can really fine-tune exactly what
it is in terms of the colour temperature
that you'd want in terms of the settings.
And also when we were adjusting the power output,
it was going up in one step increments as well.
So you can adjust that if you
want it at a certain output level.
Now there's some accessories that are
included with the actual light itself.
So the light has the diffuser
panels that I mentioned.
It also comes with a ball head bracket
here, which has a quarter-inch thread
that mounts to most light stands.
And that ball head bracket is a
360-degree ball head bracket.
So that allows you to angle your light
perfectly also comes with an AC
adapter there.
And some kits also include carry cases or you
can get them in pairs or, or triple light sets
if you're after a complete lighting setup.
Some other great features of the
Crystal Luxe 13-inch are that it has
aluminium heat sink here at the back.
So that allows it to disperse the heat
evenly across the entire LED panel.
To some LED lights have fans or,
um, some are made from plastic.
So the heat distribution on these light's are a lot
better, especially if you're using it for extended periods.
LED lights, in general, lasts a lot longer
than fluorescent lights or other forms of bulbs.
So they don't produce much heat at all, but
if you leave them on for a longer period
of time, you'd still want to make sure.
The heat is evenly dispersed.
So when you go up to touch it and it doesn't
feel hot and it's safe to touch. On top of
that, you've got some mounting points here.
So you've got a quarter-inch thread
at the top, as well as the bottom.
So you can see we've mounted the
Ball head here to the bottom of the
light to Mount it to the light stand.
But that quarter-inch thread is fairly universal
and you can mount a variety of different things
such as hot shoes, or if you have a different
type of bracket that you can mount that to light
stands, boom, arms, all sorts of different things.
So it's great to see that there's two mounting
points here, but besides that, um, you
can tell it to unique shape is quite wide.
So what we'll do now is compare it to
some other LED lights that are in market.
Some popular brands, such as Aputure or
Yongnuo, and then we'll see the comparison in
terms of output as well as the spread of light.
I've got a couple of popular LED
lights here with me right now.
So firstly, we've got the Aputure HR672C.
We've also got the YN600 Air and
that's from the Yongnuo brand.
So all these lights here, including the
Crystal Luxe, 13-inch, our bicolour LED lights.
So that means they can adjust between 3,200
Kelvin all the way up to 5,500 Kelvin.
And the way bicolour LED lights work is basically
there's multiple LED lights on the panel itself.
You can see there.
And the same when you slide off the diffuser
on the crystal luxe and each of these
LED lights have a different, they split
between the different colour temperatures.
So one will be,
a warmer colour tone, and the other
will be a daylight colour tone.
And basically when you hit the middle
point of the colour temperature adjusting is
when all of the LED lights will be on and
that's when it would represent full output.
So that's roughly about 4,300 Kelvin
for all three of these lights here.
So you can see there's different shapes
and sizes available for led lights.
So.
You've got a more rectangular shape here.
And then you've got like a larger
rectangular shape here, and you've
also got a quite wide shape here.
So the way the beam is
dispersed is a little different.
Um, you know, obviously the wider it
is, uh, physically, um, in general,
you'll get a wider throw of light.
Um, but some may think that this particular light
the Crystal Luxe LED will be sort of like a strip
light and the beam of light will be quite narrow.
Um, but surprisingly not.
So because the actual beam of the
LED bulbs themselves, the individual
bulbs are quite wide as well.
So all of these lights are comparable
in terms of their features, um, the bicolour
features and also the type of output
they produce and how you power them.
So you can power them all with NPF
series batteries or AC adapters.
And basically what we'll do is actually
compare the output of the light compared
to popular brands like these two
heat, as well as their price points.
So all of these sit at different price points.
Um, if you're looking for a complete kit, which
will include a light stand, um, some sort of
bracket, the light itself and the powering
option, including like an AC adapter, just as
a starting option, you're looking at about.
$270 here for the Crystal Luxe LED
13-inch and that's in Australian
dollars or you're looking at about 280
Australian dollars for the Yongnuo light.
And then lastly, it's sitting about 400
Australian dollars for the aperture.
now some of the differences between the lights.
Firstly, you've got.
The Aputure light and the Yongnuo
light here, you can see at the back
here it's made from a plastic casing.
So in terms of heat distribution in
on the light itself, um, it does have
events here that you can see at the top.
There are both fanless designs.
So that means there's no internal fan
that's producing any noise, which is great
for videographers, wherever there's no
sort of heat sink or metal that's used
in the casing or the chassis design.
Whereas the Crystal Luxe, 13-inch, you
can see there, we've got the, um, Aluminium,
casing and heat sink here at the back, which
helps distribute the heat a bit better.
Um, that being said, uh, you've also
got different powering options here.
So you've got the AC port,
which this one is plugged in.
You've also gotten, uh, AC
port here for the Yongnuo.
Um, but what you'll notice is you need
two batteries operate both of these.
If you're wanting to be portable with
the light compared to the Crystal Luxe, 13-inch,
where you only require one battery.
So these are all the same batteries,
the Sony NPF series batteries.
And besides that the majority of the
features are the same in terms of colour
temperature adjusting, and also fine
tuning your power output controls.
The Aputure does have a remote.
However, with the Crystal Luxe 13-inch, you'll
just basically jump in and control it manually on
the light here itself, the finetuning options of
being able to control this in one-stop increments
and also the 10K increments here for the colour
temperature adjusting, uh, has a little bit more
more fine-tuning capabilities than the lights here.
On my side.
So let's jump into the output now in
terms of rating the Lux output at one
metre, um, and that basically rates
the power of all three of these lights.
So in this test, what we're doing is positioning
the light source about one meter away from the
Lux meter, the Lux Meter measures, the output.
Of a light and drew to the
different sizes of the lights.
Uh, it's a great indicator of output level.
Firstly is the Aputure light, the
Aputure HR672C, which is the colour temperature
adjusting version of this light.
When it's positioned at about 4,300 Kelvin.
It reads at a Lux Meter rating of 1,638 Lux.
The next light is the Yongnuo, YN600 Air also
positioned one metre away from the Lux Meter.
You have to control the two adjusting
dials to switch from zero to 99%.
So there is no exact color temperature
rating, but when both light switches
are two 99%, you'll see that.
All the LEDs are on and at full output.
So the reading is 836 lux at one metre.
And lastly is the Spectrum.
Crystal Luxe, 13-inch LED. Same thing,
This is also positioned one
metre from the Lux Meter source.
And the reading at 4,300 Kelvin is 1,339 Lux.
So despite the wide size and what appears to
be a smaller panel, it actually has a higher
Lux reader meeting.
So that means it's quite strong.
It sits midway between the
Yongnuo and the Aputure.
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