so hello and welcome thank you for joining me for a product review this is about the small
rig mini led video light rm01 kit and this is my model today this little deer mouse now the
reason i'm showing you the deer mouse as my subject is because they have huge eyes and
look what you see in the eyes catch lights you can tell how many lights were used to shoot the
sequence by looking into those eyes and right now there's two lights from the small rig rm01 kit
and this is valuable for video because we can't use flash for video we want to control the lights
and these lights are tiny as is the mouse and i'm going to show you the kit in great detail
but i wanted to open with this little subject because the other thing is these lights make no
noise they have just one color spectrum but as we pan back here you can see how they're set up
look how dramatic that is and these are at the lowest height for these tripods
at four and three quarters of an inch in height to the quarter twenty threaded tops there
now we look into the eyes and on his right eye our left we see that there's two lights so now
we have a three light system all at eye level to a mouse so if you're working small this system's
for you and now that we have his left eye to us we could see for a moment there all three lights
in it and i'm going to go over the features of the kit and how the light modifiers that come with it
are really pretty good so here's the cube from the back and it shows mini led light model rm01
and it runs up five volts 3.7 amps and this is a little tripod that comes with it and this is
in the shortest setting again at four and three quarters they extend up to six and three quarters
here's the control buttons on it and there's a diffuser a grid on the front and we're showing
the back and the sides which is where the usb connects i'll go over that later here's the
box that it comes in a very nicely laid out case with a nice textured fabric on the top
by small rig and a zipper shut it has a good handle on the end look at these tiny barn doors
you can put these light modifiers on these tiny led lights and get a lot of control again for very
small subjects so here we go there's a magnetic receiving plate on the front there
that is removable and the barn doors adjust 180 degrees out so you can have a vertical slit here
as shown here for dramatic effect you can also just pull it off because it is magnetic and
then you get a horizontal slit also for dramatic effect look at that high key light right there
so then we're going to show you the other light modifiers that come with it too but this offers
a lot of control open them light up spread light everywhere but it is still a hard light
you risk having blown out highlights when you have this and for video this kit has no competition
there's nothing this small out there so here's the grid that gives us some light control again
it keeps the light from spilling over laterally from the light itself and now look at this a snoot
so this has magnets on it a snoot gives you a very focused beam of light so we're going to put that
on there and look at that totally controlled so if we went down to a one light system or killed
all the light in the room you could do rembrandt lighting or some other dramatic effect like that
but it also has a tendency to overheat the topic light wise so you can blow out your highlights
but it also tips down i wanted to show how articulated this is there's a groove
on one side there on the tripod so you can actually point it down the tripods
are stable and don't seem to want to tip over at all and we'll use these barn doors as our
subject see how they're blown out in the middle so look how dramatic that light is
folds up nicely and those pack in the very first cover that you encounter when you open up the kit
now we have the grid back on so you can light the textures exploit contours and
cast a nice shadow and the shadow gives away how hard the light source is you also have an
option here with a quarter twenty 20 mount that goes onto what's called a cold shoe so
you have other small rig equipment you could put that on a video camera you could put it on
your small rig cages and extend the lights forward and get more control for video work
now i'm going to show you how we can soften things up they include diffusers these things
feel like they're made out of translucent silicone nice and soft we have to pull that
magnetic frame off because the silicone is not designed to go over that it's designed
to go on the cube by itself what this does it has a bulb that sticks out hemisphere and that
throws soft light in every direction look how the shadows have softened look how everything is lit
nicely and so when we put one on all three then we're gonna kill all the hot spots we get a nice
soft diffused light so if you don't want harsh shadows watch the shadows dissipate
and now we're looking in at that cold shoe adapter and look how there are no blown out highlights
even though it's a black object and my fingers are light in comparison so you can do a three
light system single light system or two light system on very small scale and you have control
of the intensity of the light with that button on the top of each of the cubes
and if you hold the button it will turn off or if you hold the button it will turn on
and so there's a lot a lot of nice storage in here
every little space cut out perfectly for the snoots now in this kit these little translucent
storage bins we have color filters a whole bunch of them i'm not a big fan of color
filters myself but it gives you options creatively to light things with different colors which would
add accent or kicker lights to a subject that you're covering so let's show how that goes in
and they just insert into that magnetic frame that clips onto the sides there of your light
there you have it we have a red filter we're also going to keep the soft diffuser the white light
as the main light and then we're going to throw on another color probably green here and you line up
the little tabs on the filter with the wide tabs that are in the small rig frame here goes in flat
then you clip this back on to the body of the light cube
and now we have green and red so we can use green and red side lights hatchet
lighting whatever you want to call it and the really soft diffuser light as the main
so you have lots of options i was actually really impressed by this
this is a very inexpensive kit when you consider the entire thing is less than a hundred dollars
the lights last a very long time i did not do a longevity test that's been done already
on youtube and you can certainly look that up and see how long your lights will last
they will go for hours of course and the lower the setting for the light power the
longer they're going to last so that's the on off button on the top also it adjusts the intensity
there you go there seems to be a large single light emitting diode in there
so the stands are metal the housings are nicely textured they're supposed to be
all weather although i did not take them out into the weather
and then of course here's the quarter 20 receiver looks like it's made out of brass nice touch there
and this is the door that you will have to open if you're going to charge them now the cool thing
was they arrived fully charged so here's a little door it's spring loaded 5 volts in
s type c type connector anyway the usb adapter cords come with the kit also
so now we're going to put them away and that's how you store the soft diffusers
on the cubes and there's a little cut out for all three of them here
so nothing's going to bump into each other this case is not going to make any noises in transit
it's going to be very handy to take it wherever you need it to be
and it's going to be great for video work no noise from the lights which is really critical
if you're videoing small mammals or insects which i do by the way
now we're putting the barn door away you can see the little receiving areas for all three of the
barn doors so you have options and then of course down in those little kits on the bottom here
you put that screen in there and of course the magnetic ring that
holds everything plus those filter light colors
very simple
nice and out of the way the tripods go over the top of that
and we're good so by the way this kit was not provided to me i paid full price
for it i bought it on amazon and look for the amazon link down in the video description below
these are the usb connections to charge your pods and as i said they showed up
fully charged as a green indicator light on the back thanks for watching