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I've got with me the Falcon Eyes F7 RGB LED here
and its box as well as a separate package here
which has a couple of diffusers.
So, these diffusers here, first one is a sort of frosted cover.
It's made out of silicon material.
And that looks like it slips straight on to the light
to be used as a diffusion panel for the light.
And you've also got a silicon material honeycomb grid here as well
that has some sort of similar mounting point as the diffusion cover.
And we've got the box here.
Let's open this up.
We've got the F7 light itself.
So, the F7 light is pretty substantial in weight, which is great.
It feels like it's a high-quality build.
And it's probably about the size of an iPhone or the larger iPhones.
Just as a size comparison, I've got my phone here with me.
So, you can see that it's about the size of an iPhone.
This is an iPhone 10.
You can see it's about the same size.
And that's the light.
There's a user manual and user guide.
There's also a little sticker here.
So, this sticker here is like a little reference sheet
that shows all the different lighting effects that the light has.
There's 18 different lighting effects for the light.
And inside here, we've got a little padded pouch or a carry case.
And it's got a Velcro tab here at the back.
It only looks big enough to either slip in your arm
or just to wrap it around some bag straps or something like that.
But, it's a little Velcro tab, which is great.
And it's got a nice zipper here.
And inside this bag,
there's the charging cable that's a USB-A to USB type-C charging cable.
You've got a male post quarter-inch cold-shoe adapter.
And you've also got a mounting bracket here.
So, this mounting bracket looks similar to an articulating arm
where it's got just a single knob there to loosen both ends.
You've got a quarter-inch 20 threads on either side.
And you've got little locking screws here on the end.
And they swivel around like a ball head, so you can reposition.
This is so it can be mounted on to
the different mounting points all along the light,
which is actually only on the bottom here.
So, it's actually on the bottom only to mount that straight onto there
and you can position that either onto a camera cage or gimbal
or another mounting point that supports quarter-inch 20.
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I've got the F7 set up on a stand here
and we'll run through some of the physical features.
Firstly, there is a USB-C charging port here.
The cables provided inside the box, you can use it with quick charge.
So, it supports QC 3.0 and you can charge it via
an AC adapter if you have a wall outlet plug.
Or, if you have an external battery pack, you can definitely use that,
as well as just plugging it directly into a laptop or a PC.
So, that will work as well.
On the side here, you've got the on/off button
which doubles up as a set button.
You've also got a function button
and you've got the colour temp dial here, the adjusting dial,
so you can cycle through all the different RGB colours, or also,
going between the colour temperature of warm orange to daylight.
And over here at the back, we've got the RGB colour wheel.
This is like a reference wheel.
You've got 360 degrees
which you'll see when we turn this on and go through the menu.
You can select what colour you're wanting.
For example, the yellow is here sitting at about 60 degrees.
So, you'd want to set it to 60 on the actual menu
when you want to select that particular colour.
Now, in terms of some of its features.
The light itself has a colour temperature rating between 2500 Kelvin to 9000 Kelvin.
So, that means that you've got a really wide range
from that really orange warm colour
all the way up to a strong blue colour as well.
And you've got that mid-range which sits at about 5750 Kelvin.
If you're wanting that daylight range, it's got a total of 50 daylight bulbs
as well as 50 orange bulbs and you've got, I believe, 94 RGB bulbs as well.
Because of its larger size,
it is larger than some of the other pocket lights on the market,
such as the Boling P1.
And you've also got new lights coming up from Aputure as well as other brands.
So, there's a massive range now of RGB lights coming into the market.
It comes down to the features of the light,
as well as the price point at the end of the day.
So, speaking of price point, this one here in Australia
retails for about 200 Australian dollars.
And if you're wanting the diffuser set that comes with it,
so that diffusion cover as well as the honeycomb grid,
it's about 220 dollars.
Running through some of the other features,
you've got an internal 3,000 milliamp battery.
So, that means this is rechargeable.
You don't have to replace batteries or anything like that.
You can just plug it straight in.
It's the same with the Boling P1.
And you've also got the CRI rating of 97, which is a really high CRI rating.
That means all of your colour reproductions in your photos and videos
will be really accurate.
And the Lux output rating at about one meter is about 400 or so Lux.
So, it actually is quite strong for a small light.
A light like this, in most cases, would be used as more of an accent light
or a backlight or hair light or something like that;
but we'll test to see if this light can actually be used as a key light.
In low-light situations, I imagine it would be.
But, if you use a bunch of them, especially in a three-lighting setup,
in a low light situation, or in most situations for video,
it would be great as an accent light, at the very least.
Now, in terms of its dimensions.
It's about 156 mm in its length there.
And you're about 80 mm in terms of its height.
And then, you've got about 15 mm in thickness.
It's quite a small light, but it weighs about 300 grams.
So, it is a little bit substantial in weight.
And we'll find out shortly as to why it is a little bit substantial in weight,
because it has a neat feature and that will show shortly.
And we also have 18 preset colour features.
So, that means that we can cycle through different presets with the light.
It doesn't just have the white colour temperature,
the blue colour temperature, and also, the warm orange colour temperature,
as well as all the RGBs.
You've got special effects that you can find in other similar RGB lights,
like the Boling P1,
or even more advanced lights like the Aputure C120D II
They have all the special effects that are perfect to use in video scenarios
and video scenes.
Some of those examples include like a police car, ambulance, fire truck,
as well as lightning effects, candlelight effects,
and, yeah, just cycling through to different RGB modes as well.
And what we want to see is a quick comparison to
an alternative light in the market,
which is the Boling BL-P1, as compared to the Falcon Eyes F7.
So, I've got them both on stands here.
As you can see, the P1 is a smaller light in comparison,
which means the output's slightly less as well.
Because it is a bigger light, it does have a few more LEDs,
which means the output is at 434 Lux at one meter.
In terms of the other features,
you've got an articulating arm with the Boling P1.
Whereas, the F7 comes with that attachable arm
to that quarter-inch thread mounting point.
So, you can still definitely position the light in many different ways
because that arm is sort of like a ball head
and an articulating arm that you can position in many different ways.
Other features include on the back here of the P1,
you can see there is a HSL colour palette reference.
And also, at the back here of the F7, it's got that.
They both support USB-C and also have pretty much the same buttons
and menu options.
So, you've got the on/off button here
and on/off button for the P1 is at the top.
And then, all the set buttons are on the side here.
Whereas, you can see all the scroll wheels,
etc., are all the same.
It also has that little mini OLED screen
that displays all the settings for the lights there.
So, pretty much all in all the same.
But, one major feature for the F7, which is something new they've introduced,
is the fact that this light here is actually magnetic.
So, there are magnets built into the light
that allow it to attach to any metal surface, basically.
You'd want it to be a flat metal surface.
So, not something rounded like a pole, for example,
because you're wanting pretty much
the majority of the surface area of the light
to be attached to that surface.
I just happen to have a metal panel here from a shelving unit with me.
So, this here is just a metal panel.
You can see the light actually sticks straight on.
So, even if I have it sort of slightly out of distance, I can just attach it on
and you can see that it actually goes straight on to the panel.
So, it's actually magnetic. It moves around.
So, you can position that around quite a bit.
And it's actually quite hard to remove
and you need to use some force to actually get that off.
There's different mounting points, I imagine,
that are built-in on either corner there.
So, all the corners that allow it to securely mount on if it's a flat surface.
That's a really great feature because where I can see that
being useful is if you have different mounting points set up,
maybe you have metal pegs.
We have many backdrop pegs.
Or, just clamps that you use in photography or videography,
and you can attach that to the light.
You just need to make sure, once again, like I said,
that it needs to be a flat surface.
So, yeah, that's really a great feature that the Boling P1 doesn't have.
Let's run through some of the menu options here of the F7.
So, you've got the power button here at the top.
Just hold that down to turn on.
And straight away, you've got the battery life there
that's displayed at the top right.
You've got the colour temperature mode.
And you've also got the percentage of output there.
So, that's the stepless control.
You've got a few different options.
You can actually press down on the set button a few times
to cycle through the different settings for the light.
So, you've got--if you press it down once you go down to the RGB mode
where you can select your HSL number,
as well as the saturation level and the intensity.
And then, the next one is your different scenes.
So, those 18 different scenes that we discussed earlier.
Now, going back into just your usual colour temperature mode.
There you can see you can actually
increase in brightness for this bottom dial here,
which is like your brightness adjustment or your output adjustment.
And also, the colour temp.
You can cycle through the different colour temps.
So, you can up in 50K intervals, basically, and cycle all the way
from the 2500 Kelvin up to 9000 Kelvin there
where you get a fairly blue light.
And then, if you just wanted to go to your natural daylight,
the mid-range here would be 5700 Kelvin, approximately, or 5750.
There we go.
So, you're getting a natural daylight there,
all the way back down to that really warm orange colour there.
And then, adjusting the intensity.
That's really easy setting to go through.
Now, just cycling in into your RGB mode.
So, this is all your HSL output.
So, as I was saying earlier, if you want to get more of a yellow hue,
you probably have to just adjust the HSL there.
So, you just need to press down on this function button here.
It actually is a little up and down wheel, as well as push down wheel.
So, you can press down and you can see a highlighted "H" there.
Now, you just cycle that up to the number that you need.
You can use that reference.
There is a reference guide.
So, say for about 180.
In between there, we're at a blue colour
and we've got that on maximum saturation now.
So, you can still control the intensity there
and you can have a softer version of the light
or a less intense version whether you adjust the saturation colour there.
That makes it a softer version of this sort of blue tone,
all the way up to 100% saturated version of that blue tone.
Now, adjusting and changing into the different menu option,
which is your different scenes here.
So, this one right now is set to Scene 4.
And Scene 4 is lightning.
You can see there, it has intermittent flashes of lightning.
You can cycle through all the different modes.
So, this one here's a fire truck, etc.
And we'll show a few examples of that shortly
with me in front of those scenes.
So, the actual reference card has
18 different scenes that you can reference.
But, on the actual light itself, it allows you to go all the way up to 20.
So, you can see there's Scene 19 and Scene 20.
And, yeah, that's really cool.
I think it's just an addition to what they've added on top
of the reference here or what's advertised.
And you can also turn that off when you don't need it.
Now, just to turn off the light,
all you need to do is just hold down on the "off" button here for a few seconds.
And that switches it off.
Running through some of the scenes here.
There are 18 different scenes advertised,
but the actual light itself has 20, which is great.
Two extra scenes, so we can't complain.
And we need to get it on to scene mode.
And then, actually cycling through the different scenes.
So, the very first one here, you've got this little reference card.
It's a little sticker.
So, you can peel that off and stick that to the back of your light.
The very first one here is police car.
Ambulance.
You've also got firetruck.
There's a lightning effect.
And there's also a second lightning effect.
It has different strobe intervals,
in terms of the different lighting effects.
You've also got a HSL demo.
So, this is basically just a demo.
So, if you had this on display, if you just want to get to cycle through
the different RGB settings.
So, that's what it does here in a slow motion.
And then, the next scene is a faster version of that.
So, it cycles through faster, all the different colours.
You've also got a television screen effect here.
And that just changes the intensity of the light
and makes it flicker, similar to a TV screen.
It also got candle light effect.
So, it's a warm colour hue
and it's also slightly flickering to mimic that of a candle light.
And you've got paparazzi similar to flashes going off from paparazzi’s.
And you've also got a really intense strobe effect here as well.
And you've got high and low beam bulbs.
So, this just cycles through high and then a low beam.
And there's double flash.
So, that's a warm colour hue
and it's just intermittently going on and off.
You've got a red flash,
a green flash,
a blue flash.
And you've got two party mode.
So, this party mode is just cycling through different colours.
And then, you've got a second party mode.
Now, these special two scenes.
That's 18 scenes now.
There's two more: Scene 19 and Scene 20.
Scene 19 has a love heart on it.
It looks like it's another candlelight effect.
So, this could be a scene at dinner, perhaps.
Maybe something like a date scene.
And then, you've also got just a flashing HSL or RGB sort of scene here,
which is similar to that other flashing scene.
But, this time, it's just in RGB, basically.
So, yeah, it's 20 scenes in total, which is great.
I mean, those are all presets that helps you in different sort of scenes that
you're wanting to create, especially in your videos.
And other than that, you've also got the obvious soft orange
to the blue colour temperatures there,
as well as just the static RGB colours that are available.
So, that was just a quick unboxing and review
of the Falcon Eyes RGB F7 Pocket Light.
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