Hi, Carl here for ProAV TV, and today we are looking at the Lupo Superpanel.
Now I don't exactly keep my love for lighting a secret here at ProAV and i've done several
videos on different LED panels here on the youtube channel.
Mainly on the lights which I use myself here in the showroom, the Lishuai Edge range of
soft lights which are fantastic lights.
But the most important thing about lighting is that there is no one light for every situation.
Different subjects and different jobs are going to need different approaches.
The Lishuai Edge range are soft lights, which means that they trade some brightness for
a nice soft light output.
If you compare them to the "average LED panel", They will normally be not quite as bright.
So what about if you want to tip the scale the other way.
What if you don't need that soft light output, you want a hard light and lots of it.
This is where the Lupo Super Panel comes in, because this light is very very bright.
To give you a quick idea of just how bright it is, this video So far has been shot with
a Lishuai Edge 1380 at full brightness as my key light.
And now I have swapped out the key light for the Lupo Superpanel, its so bright I can hardly
look at the camera and I should be pretty overexposed.
So that should give you a good impression of just how bright the Super Panel is, but
lets make it a bit more scientific.
The Edge 1380 which is the light that's on me right now, I measured at about 3500 lux
at one meter.
The Superpanel clocked in at hugely impressive 21,000 lux at a meter.
That's 6 times as bright!
While we are looking at the light meter results, lets also look at the colour, they both perform
very well.
The 1380 as we know has fantastic colour and gets a TLCI of 98.
But the super panel is very nearly as good, coming in at 96 TLCI.
So theres no problems here at all with colour, anything above 90 is perfectly good enough
and shouldn't cause you any issues with colour at all.
So lets look at the actual light itself.
Its a traditional 1x1 size and has quite a nice design in my opinion.
It looks and feels like a quality light.
It is made of plastic but it feels very sturdy and solid, plus the plastic keeps the weight
down, the whole light only weights 2.3 kilos which is pretty light weight.
The LED's are arranged on the front with what looks like an intensifying lens on each one
which I assume is what makes this light so powerful.
I also assume they focus the light a bit as the Superpanel has a 40 degree beam angle
which is very different to usual LED panels which have wide beam angles, often up to 120
degrees.
This will help you control the light a bit better and stop unwanted spill.
If we look at the back, we get a dimmer dial here, and a colour dial here if you have the
bicolour version.
In between these we have a simple LCD display and some control buttons to navigate the menus.
Then below this we have a fan.
Because this light is so powerful it does need a fan to stop the LEDs from overheating,
but it is very quiet and shouldn't be an issue most of the time.
If it is becoming an issue though, maybe a sound guy is giving you the evil eye, you
can turn it off in the menu's which is very helpful.
This does mean the light wont let you go any brighter than 50% though otherwise you'd damage
your light.
Underneath the fan is where the power happens.
Out of the box they have a transformer which clips onto the back letting you power it from
the mains.
But you can get an optional battery plate to attach a V-Lock battery there, so that
you can run it on batteries.
Strangely though it wont actually transfer power through the battery plate, it gives
you a D-tap connection and a D-tap to XLR cable like this one to send power to the light.
We do recommend you use a high power draw battery though, like one of SWIT's new range
of V-Locks as the superpanel draws a maximum of 110W.
This is beyond what's recommended on most normal V-lock batteries, so make sure your
battery can cope with it.
The new SWIT's which we recommend have a max power draw of 150W so will manage fine, you'll
want the 160 or 240wh versions though as the small 80Wh version wont quite cope.
Lupo make a few accessories to go with the super panel, theres a bag which is nice, Some
barn doors, a simple diffuser and the battery plate I mentioned previously.
You can see all the accessories we recommend with it as well on our website.
Overall I think the Lupo is a very versatile panel.
This is the brightest LED panel which we have seen on the market so far which gives you
the option to bounce it off the ceiling or through some heavy diffusion to soften it
up.
Or to blast through a window maybe.
Basically this will be very useful for anything where you cant be right next to your subject
or if you need to light a larger area.
There are so many reasons you might need a brighter source, and if you do, I think the
Lupo Superpanel is a solid choice.
For more information take a look on the website, the link to which is below.
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Thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next video.