hi so i'm literally wrapping up the edit of this video and i'm sitting here and i saw jt from new
layer start this conversation about like working out with nan light who makes a lot of the lights
that i use and then like aputure responded to me in that thread and before i knew it about
10 minutes in and i am this is one of the most hilarious threads i've like ever been a part of
on twitter it looks like jt is gonna try to put together some workout competition between like
creators and the lighting companies aperture namely i i don't know if this is real or not
i guess in a world where logan paul can fight a undefeated professional boxer then why can't
creators and lighting companies uh do pull-up challenges i don't know they were talking about
winning prizes and stuff so aputure nan light i don't know if you were being serious i think i saw
jt says may make something for his channel so i'll leave a link to his channel down below but
leave a like if uh you guys want this to be a real thing a workout challenge for creators and winner
wins lights okay let's just get to the video welcome to my living room now when you look at
this composition and the scene there's nothing necessarily inherently wrong with it right when
it comes to lighting i mean i got my key light right here we've got some natural window light and
then we have a bunch of practicals but with those practicals there's a lot going wrong first of all
in this light right here there's actually a bulb missing because like two or three go in there one
event is burnt out this is a slightly different warmer tone than this light which is different
from this light and then in this hallway we have a much cooler new led bulb now to a dp someone
who likes to have control over the lighting the composition the color temperatures of everything
that is a total nightmare and so that's why today i'm stoked to test out the aputure b7c
eight light kit now this isn't necessarily a brand new product it's been out for a little bit of time
and aperture sent it out to me a little over a month ago so that way i would have a good amount
of time to play with it i actually just recently used it on a short film that we actually got
honorable mention one of 12 over 700 submissions for the russo brothers for the agbo film festival
so yay go team if you want to check out that short film it's finally live you can check it out in the
link in the description go comment and say that you came from this video yeah so these bulbs i
have been wanting something like this for years actually late last year i shot a short film where
the entire set uh was lit with one light bulb suspended from um just a typical wire and i used a
kind of cheap i think it was like a life fx smart bulb or something and so you know i could change
the color temperatures and the rgb colors and it was bluetooth i could control it from my phone
and so it was decent but it still wasn't perfect because it was missing some of the key components
that a good filmmaking light has one color accuracy that thing again for the average consumer
it's a cool rgb light bulb right it's just not going to have the same color accuracy that
these bulbs are going to have the other thing it was missing was power options obviously it was a
regular light bulb so it had to be in a socket now we were in the middle of a garage so there were
outlets nearby but it was still kind of a hassle because we had to run um the actual like light
hanging cable straight down from the ceiling and then i had to duct tape a bunch of extension cords
to the ceiling one of the outlets wasn't working so we had to completely reroute all the cables
to the other side of the garage it was just a lot of wasted time so the fact that these
have both options where you can run straight into a regular light socket and power it through ac
through the wall like normal light bulbs would work or you could be out in the middle of
nowhere or some place that you don't have easy access to power and run it off of the internal
battery which at max output will give you over 70 minutes of run time and in my use case it's been
fairly accurate and a lot of times i'm not even using it at full power you know it's speaking
of what they look like let's go ahead and fix the scene so i'm going to replace one two three
four five and six light bulbs so that way we can get a consistent look for these practicals let's
go ahead and replace some light bulbs by the way before removing either these bulbs or any bulbs
uh know that most of the time they get very hot so i don't have any grip gloves on me right now um
so i'm just gonna give them a few minutes to cool down and then i will replace these guys
all right so now we've got them all installed now we're going to go ahead and mess around with
the app and i'm going to show you how to change the color temperatures and all that in a second
the first thing i do want to point out which can be a con is the actual size of them so this is the
little light bulb that was in here now because there are no fans in here it is
just passively cooled through the metal housing here it is significantly larger and significantly
heavier so if you have a really small light fixture you will see it kind of stick out or
it may feel a little kind of wobbly or something like that so keep in mind that you know you can
look at the lamps i have here i mean these are all hanging they're not like ridiculously heavy
these aren't about to fall out of the ceiling or anything but if you have a light fixture that
easily topples over you may want to find a way to secure it better because this is a lot heavier
than this also they do have this kind of unique design to it so here's another kind of traditional
bulb that i pulled out of one of the lights if you're doing a close-up or anything like that
you'll also be able to tell the difference just because from the side it looks okay if you get the
top part here it has that kind of traditional bulb look but if you kind of you know if it's
upside down and you're shooting underneath you're not going to have that kind of total round look so
again i'm guessing this has to do with the cooling maybe the light output i'm not exactly sure the
purpose of this design i'd be curious aperture let me know what the reason why you didn't go with
just a traditional kind of fully rounded bulb look compared to uh this look i'd be really interested
in that answer all right so now let's go into the situs link app i didn't end up replacing this one
because it was too hard or whatever so we'll just match it to uh this color temperature so let's see
we got one two three four five and here on the app we see one two three four five so we can see
all of our fixtures the rest obviously are still in the case so i can easily turn them
on and off with one i can change the intensity so this is a hundred percent on all of them now
i can also go in and individually turn them on and off so if i want this one to go off at a certain
point or i can slide and change the intensity so i can dim that one down a lot uh these back ones i
kind of do want to dim down a bit so i'm going to go down to about 50 percent and this one because
the lamp is more diffused i want to keep it at 100 so i go all the way down you really start
to lose it because my key is relatively bright it already isn't sticking out too much if this were
at night a night scene this one would be a lot more prevalent and then of course we can go in and
change the color temperature of everything now if i wanted to go for some party thing
i can go to the palette and go like green or something i'm going to just say all the fixtures
and now we can see that they've all turned green now once i've set up the group i can't actually
go into that group one since i have them now i can change from very cool to very warm and again the
nice thing is compared to the lifx or the phillips hue lights here i'm actually kidding numbers that
i'm used to seeing on lights i'm getting my kelvin for color temperature i'm getting
my green and magenta shifts that i can change and of course the intensity everyone has but
it's just nice to be able to be like okay i want to set this to daylight balance and any other app
i would just have to like kind of guess it and get it close to there or if i want to match a
light bulb that's around 2400 make it really warm then i can go for like this wow this very heavily
diffused i promise it is on you can see right there maybe i should have done this at night but
you can see those pictures really nicely kind of looking a bit uh ugly that's my green shift really
harsh that looks nice and warm now again if i wanted to match this hallway for example huh
actually grab the box for this light here now just eyeballing it i thought i put this around
5100k on the actual box for the lights uh has lighting facts and it says that it's 5000 kelvin
so again the nice thing is i can just set it right at five and boom now that's matching so maybe you
have a light that you have existing on the set and you just want everything else to match to it
that's really simple and easy to use now with the siduslink app you can get pretty crazy you
can link these to other aperture lights and do some crazy effects i haven't used any of that so
i'm just going to shoot some aperture b-roll over top of this section because i just haven't been
in a situation where i have to use any of those features all right so now that we've got the
scene looking a little bit better more consistent a little bit more power output back there so it's
a little bit more prominent in the scene we've got it matched to the other light in the hallway
things are looking a little bit better there now let's go back to the design of each ball
real quick one thing that i love that they did is have the instructions engraved onto the side
so these bulbs are also very different because they have controls on the bulbs themselves so if
you never use the app or you just need to change one bulb manually you can just grab it at any time
and there's a power button there's a plus and a minus and so obviously by default the minus
and plus are to change the intensity and the power button if you press and hold that that turns it on
or off but then you can also do things like change from the ac to dc power you can change the color
temperature and if you forget how to do that you simply just look on the side and i can see
that to change uh my cct switch is power so i double click the power so one two and now we're
in a warm and then there's a couple other shortcuts that you can mess around with
but it is nice to have individual control right from here so again if you're on set and you just
need to quickly unscrew and change the intensity of a bulb you don't want to have to go find the
person who has the app or anything you can absolutely easily do that and we've talked
about the individual bulbs which of course you can buy as a standalone product but one of my favorite
things about the eight light kit is the fact that it comes in this case now this isn't a normal
pelican case this is a fully custom case that you may have already seen it has a little outlet
out here that's super cool uh and when you first open it up you can see that you have eight slots
uh for the various bulbs laser cut out whatever foam and what's cool about these is you don't have
to like unscrew them they kind of created this quick release system they kind of just wiggle
it and pull it out give it a little bit of force and then you kind of just push it back down and it
sits in there super secure it's not coming out as i drop the power cable however but as you noticed
off to the side here uh it comes with extra fuses so for whatever reason if you do blow a fuse easy
access right there then it's awesome because you literally just take this power cable out plug this
into the wall flip the on switch and now you're charging all of the lights at the same time now
aperture recommends that you of course charge the lights when they're off um they will still charge
when they're on but of course that's not the most efficient pretty common sense but the other
big thing is that when you are charging them when the case is plugged in keep the lid open do not
close it whether the lights are on or off because of course when they're charging they're still
going to heat up and because when it's closed it's such a tight snug fit of course you open up to the
ability of fires or just overheating and burning something or ruining something so when you're
plugging in the case to charge them always leave the case open so nice to be able to put them all
in there you have the charging case uh the only thing about this case is that it's not waterproof
my guess is that the majority of it is but the fact is that this cover is exposed i'm
a little bit surprised it didn't come with like a rubber cap that kind of flips down this is a very
standard power cable outlet actually i may go online and just i'm sure for like a dollar you
can find a bunch of rubber caps and i may just get one to put in right there not to necessarily make
it waterproof but just to make sure any accidents or dust debris gets in there and one other big use
case that kind of just popped into my head that this has been very useful for is flickering or
lack thereof anytime you shoot high-speed footage a lot of times you will see a lot of flickering
going on from traditional light bulbs and it's not just crazy like slow motion cameras or anything
if you adjust your shutter angle or shutter speed at all you'll usually see flickering happen again
since these are made for the purpose of filmmaking uh you're not going to see any flickering up to
at least 120 frames per second on here 240 on my iphone that's the highest frame rate i have access
to right now and i didn't get any flickering at all so who should buy these lights right that's
one of the most important things is who are these kind of made for because kind of like a specialty
macro lens or something it's not really meant to be your first purchase if you're just getting into
filmmaking you don't have any lights at all this probably isn't going to be the first light that
you buy and gerald undone did a good test on this whether or not these could be your key light and
i think he only used one it was obviously very dim not gonna be too good and you can see here
with thicker levels of diffusion you almost can't even see the light these are meant to
be for practical use kind of background lights so to speak now i think you could use these
as a key in a special type scenario again that short film that i shot last year this would have
been perfect for but that was a completely blacked out garage with a single light ball pain from the
ceiling so the light bulb looked really bright in the environment but if you're a content creator or
filmmaker and you want to have more realistic controlled sets then this absolutely can be
a great addition to any lighting kit practicals are the most often overlooked pieces to any
set they're subtle but they can absolutely elevate the look and just the overall aesthetic
to any composition or filmmaking thing that you're working on so if you're interested in picking one
is up you can check them out in the link in the description below huge thanks to aputure for
sending this out for me to test there was no money exchange this isn't a sponsored video they didn't
pay to see this they haven't seen it before me posting it for you guys so take that information
and judge it however you want thanks so much for watching guys i'll see you in the next video you