look i'm trying something new okay so don't judge me but lights is the reason why we're watching
this video isn't it so there we go.
what's happening guys dan debenham here in this video
we're going to look at lighting and we're going to look at some lights that i've bought and i want to
just sort of go through what what you could do with them um but also talk a little bit about
about how lighting is important in in your videos so to speak so for the longest time
um i used this little gem this is a amran al m9 it's got a pop-off filter it's got uh
nine leds on it that you can you can um change the settings and it's back up here um on the
on the shelving behind me uh it's been in these videos pretty much every studio video lighting
that sort of shelf since this since i sort of put this started putting the studio together
and it's a great little light i'll leave a little video up here for you on um on on that particular
light it's really good it's really cheap and it's it's uh a really useful little light to just stick
in a pack or in your pocket even in your back pocket and it's char rechargeable got an indicator
on it but again i'll leave the link up here to the video so you can you can view that light
um and i thought perhaps it was time for a little bit of an upgrade um a time or time to add to this
um just so this lonely little light wasn't uh doing its own little thing um and had a little
bit of help and that's why i ended up purchasing a couple of these these are aperture mcs
these are wi-fi rgb this is sort of the spiritual successor to these basically they're not really
much bigger tiny little bit maybe we're not talking massive amounts probably five mil
one way four three four mil the other um so yeah so i bought these i bought a couple
you've got one up here behind me um which is is lighting that shelf up there and then this one
um and and i resisted for such a long time to to buying these because i thought do i really
do i really need am i really going to get some use from these um are they going to do more than
what this one does um and are they going to do it in a better way or is it going to be easier
or am i just going to be am i spending i mean this was 40 quid these are 129 quid
in some places a little bit more expensive some places a little bit cheaper but
um i was like are these are these really going to do what i want them to do um so i
took the bullet i put the bit the bullet should i say and i bought one to see what it was like
and i have to say i was well i was so impressed i bought another one um to have two um and so so
what is it what is it about these that impressed me so much that i ended up buying two of them
well first off um there's a screen on the side which indicates an led screen on the side which
indicates uh exactly what you're doing and how you're doing it um there are so many features
that is it's unbelievable really for something so small build quality is it's really really
high level it's quite weighty compared to compared to this light it's a it's quite a hefty piece of
kit it feels like you've spent some money on it um it's it's sort of a mixture of metal and
plastic construction um but it's all high grade stuff these are also rgb so you can switch them
to whatever color you want really um and that's all done through um an app so you get an app
that ties to this light um and that allows you to then you can control it from the screen by
using the scroll wheel on the top on the side um and uh basically that allows you to press in and
whatever and you get to the hues saturations and all that kind of stuff but you also get to be able
to turn the light up and down in intensity and uh the color uh the kelvin number of it so you
can go from a warm color to cold um so you can go from daylight to to tungsten and what have you but
you can do all that through an app as well um and you can get it you can get the the same features
but a little bit more intuitive i think the app is definitely the thing that you that sells this
basically you can you can control it to such a finite amount in point point one over a percent
in terms of brightness it is also magnetic uh so you can stick this to something um and you can
you can um you can place it on stuff that's metal so you don't need you don't necessarily
need some kind of stand although there is a screw at the bottom um which is which fits happily fits
the joby gorillapod type size nut i think it's a quarter something like that what do you actually
get for your 129 pounds so first off obviously you get the light which is you know that's what
you've bought it for it's really really cool it's it's um exactly what you wanted it to do
um then you obviously get you get a case with it which has got a flap at the back for you
to slide the light into all fits together quite nicely and this is quite a nice case it sort of
feels like a ballistic nylon type case in the front pocket you get a rubber diffuser and that
basically the light effectively fits over the top of that so for instance let me slip this on
so the light fits inside and there are cut outs all the way around so there's a cut out for the at
the side here cut out for the fans at the bottom along with the mounting screw uh cut out here
for the controls for the on off charging and the um the scroll wheel and then a cut out at the top
for the lcd panel um and that allows you to see everything that that you need and it does diffuse
it massively it's very it's very good but it's like a rubber sort of diffuser it's not it's not
like a paper or plastic diffuser you get in you're getting quite a bit for your money you also get
a really nice high quality sort of um this is a sheathed cable so it's one of those ones that's
got material on the outside of it rather than it being just a plastic cable um so yeah so the
braided effectively and that's a usbc and you can charge it from that incidentally this uh
this light will charge from wireless charging as well so let me just take that out it's quite easy
to get out um so yeah so this will charge from wireless charging so i've charged it on i've got
a samsung s10 and i've got one of those samsung disks that you stick your phone on um and that's
initially how i charged it when i first got it i just dropped it on that and then left it there
and it just charged up absolutely fine and it just comes on the screen comes on and tells
you how far how much battery there is and it just it blinks until it stops blinking when it's full
um and it's it's basically um fully charged so you can do it by the cable via a power brick i
mean we've all we've all got them all over the place it's an old really old iphone power brick
um we've got it's got hundreds of those kind of things down there so it's just a usb
to usb c cable which is braided and that comes with it along with this case the um the diffuser
and the light and yeah it it's really really cool the other thing that this has got on it which is
really really really cool is it's got a load of different effects on it so you can have um like a
blinking faulty bulb you can have like a strobe type thing so it's just changing from one color
to another almost like it's a disco kind of thing um uh and there are sort of like
five six sort of um effects that you can do on it um so so they're actually quite useful and i did
wonder i did wonder whether or not whether or not i get any use out of those i thought what can you
do with them but then then i thought well let's let's put something together and let's show you
a couple of the of the effects what you can actually do with a couple of the
effects
it's the video side of things and it's adding uh just like an element to it
that just gives it a little bit of atmosphere
and we all know fantastic
so as you can see they do add a quite an interesting sort of um an interesting look to
the uh to your video because i wouldn't have got the same effect just having the teleon
um and trying to get that that sort of wash look where it the tele flickers on the the
light reacts to you basically um you can get you get it a little bit but this
this really does boost it and i i think it was about it was about 40 so it wasn't even like full
full chat it was it was you know turned down just so they didn't look too obvious
that the tv was reacting to the the light was washing over me i didn't want it to be too obvious
um and the fireworks one again that's really cool and i do almost point out as well that you
can also you can change the you can change the intensity you can change the colors so
for instance on a photo when you can go either just white you can go full color or you can go
sort of a mixture between white and color so it'll do colored and white colored and white and so and
so forth but then you can also change the pattern of of how that works it it just gives you the
options of being able to dial it in so that you're getting what you what you think you're the look
you're actually wanting to get from it you can get from this um and because it's quite bright
it's roughly twice as bright as this little am9 alm-9 it's roughly twice the brightness of of that
if i would say get if you've got a use for this kind of thing these are ideal um and i've used
i've used this to light the back of people um as a hair light when i've been on a corporate shoot
and these are twice the brightness do awful lot more things um are a lot more controllable
so i would say yes these are these are absolutely amazing um and i'm well well well worth the money
um i don't think i've forgotten to mention anything that these
they talk about and take about about an hour to charge all their about um
so but you can of course use if you want to plug them into a battery pack you can plug the
the cable into a um into a portable battery charger um and it'll run for as long as
that is charged basically um so that's that's another option you've got as well you can also
power them from some power if you need to you can power them from the socket if you wanted to
um if you've got long enough cable and such light it can be they can be powered
um so so really battery is not really an issue and you get about two and a half hours worth of
charge you get about two and a half two hours worth of usage and it tells you how much usage
you've got on the lcd it will tell you you've got two hours worth and in the app um telling you
what sort of charge you've got left um and that allows you to to see what you need to do and when
you need to do it and how you need to charge them and so on and so forth so so yeah i think overall
i think these are really really top-notch um and i think i think they're a great asset
to any set or to any project that you're doing i think they're a brilliant asset to just
pop a little bit of light in there um and get the light you actually want and also the double
up as being able to to fake effects um to fake stuff like fireworks or to be a police car or
um even if it's in like you see the you know the indoor part where the lights are just coming in
through the windows again it just it gives that impression that there's something out there and
that can be fireworks can be anything can be a faulty bulb can be there's lots and lots
and lots of things you can do with them which are unique um and usable which were way out of reach
from from people like us um that didn't have you know massive budgets and stuff
well now you only need 129 pounds and you've got yourself some movie style effects so with that i
hope it was useful hope that review of these was useful or interesting at the very least
interesting um and you got something from it and i will see you guys in the next one peace
you