today we're going to do a review of fantastic pocket light f7 that only cost 60 bucks
me
oh all right so what's the big deal about the slide well first of all it's the price
for 60 bucks you get incredible bang for the buck first of all you get a fantastic little light that
ranges from 2500 kelvin to 9000 kelvin so that's already incredible in itself
also this slide covers rgb spectrum meaning you can dial any color temperature
with the slide so it's absolutely incredible what this little thing can do
also this light is rated to be 96 cri meaning that it's pretty accurate color representation
so if you're probably going to be lighting skin tones or something like that you can rely based
on the rating that the light is going to be pretty accurate so let's take a look inside and see what
this little beast can do and let's take a look at the packaging so here we have f7 pocket light okay
let's open it up we have a box we have a manual we have a certification sticker a bunch of nonsense
and here we have the light itself so let's put it aside and let's see what else is in the box
okay right so let's put this thing over here okay so the light comes with a very nice
little pouch okay uh pretty normal quality uh for 60 bucks pretty good deal actually
so let's open it up and we have a few things over here inside well first of all
you get a nice honeycomb for those of you who don't know what this is basically it
prevents light from spilling all around and this little honey grip honeycomb grip basically
focuses light straight so if you want to only light your subject this is the kind of stuff
you would use so this is really cool that it's included in you know in some of the thousands of
dollars lights you're not gonna find this thing so this is fantastic okay what else we have
a nice little um cold shoe with a quarter inch mount this is also really good that means
off the bat you can mount it right away to your camera so if you're going to be using it for like
a new style of gathering or documentary this is really nice to have right away plus you
can probably mount it somewhere else maybe in the car or something so that's really cool also
really cool advice those um gel what's it called silica gels don't throw them away they basically
absorb all the moisture so if you have your gear bag just toss one end or a few like even
in my pelican case i have a bunch of those they basically absorb all the moisture just in case
maybe you're gonna have something wet you don't want to have the mold growing inside so those
things pretty cool so save them okay next one we have a nice little soft box this is also big plus
okay so we have a really cool soft box basically this is like diffusing the light so if the light
is too strong this little thing makes it more diffused okay so we have honeycomb
and we have softbox that's pretty good and finally we have usb to usbc so this is charging cable
do we have anything else that's it all right so let's take a look at actual light itself
um from the feel of it i'm not going to say that this is the most high quality feel of this light
it feels a little bit cheap the plastic is definitely on the cheaper side however for 60
bucks again not a bad deal it's not too terrible but feels a little bit on the cheaper side the
cool thing about the slide is two little magnets over here basically you can slap the slide on any
surface that is metal so here we have magnets on any metal service boom you can slap it and it's
going to hold those magnets actually pretty strong i test this thing around and it holds very well so
for example on the surface of the car if for some reason you want to do something with the car and
slap it boom and it's going to hold very very nice now you have your quarter inch over here so you
mount it cold shoe goes on top of the camera if you want to go that route so battery 3.7
volts 2600 milliamperes 9.5 watt and it can be controlled with the app so this is another really
cool perk again for 60 bucks this is a very very cool deal so let's turn it on and basically see
what this whole thing is all about okay there's this little red button over here whoa let's see
there we go so the light is pretty bright it's actually a very nice output the cool thing what
i like about the slide is the fact that it has a very nice lcd screen i mean it's not obviously
colored or anything like that but for example well once you're gonna start let me show you something
once you're going to start dialing in all your settings for example we can see that right now
we're at 9000 kelvin so once we crank it down for example 8300 and the strength is 70 so if
we're gonna crank it up all the way to 100 so now we're at full power basically this is 100 percent
output like i said you can crank between 9000 all the way down to 2500 so just by itself this is
a very cool feature and we can see that light actually changes the coolest thing about this
light and what i personally love about it that you can dial your rgb so let me turn on again because
i don't want to flash camera too much first of all you have presets for example right now this one is
like a like a firefighter car there's a little car over here there's actually
um image on the lcd on a little screen that it's a car so let's try to do something else okay
so this is police i'm guessing blue lights and they're kind of flickering it's very nice that
they included this kind of presets because for example if you're doing filmmaking you can really
take advantage of those things especially if you're filming at night okay what else the heart
i don't know what that is triangle like is that kind of like emergency
yeah okay i hope you guys not gonna have a seizure uh so all right so seizure i should put a seizure
warning okay so this is like bunch of reporters over here so this is imitates like a flash
uh this one imitates candlelight so really cool this one imitates tv there's a little tv over here
again that's very fantastic for 60 bucks that's a very good deal that they include all those things
and on top of that you can actually control it with your iphone or android that's really really
cool okay i don't know what that is some kind of so this is rgb this is just going like crazy
happy people dancing not sure what that means uh be in the little lighting yes blue green red
so that's it and it just goes in circles and then if you're gonna go in a different mode hsi you can
dial basically any color right here and you can control of course the saturation
and strength of that color so essentially you have a complete setup in this tiny
little light so this is really really incredible so let's go back how you go back okay let's see
there we go okay so now we're again in the normal mode we're going to go all the way to
9000 okay so i turn this off so who is this little light for
you know just because the price is right doesn't mean the slide's going to be right
for you and i want to point this out completely um this light would be very good for people
maybe who gonna be doing and filming something in the tight spaces for example if you're gonna
be filming let's say something in a bathroom maybe you're a filmmaker and you have a scene
in the bathroom and you need light sometimes you're not gonna be able to mount
big lights and you know wires and whatnot you really want to be very discreet about it this
little guy gonna be for you you get two or three of those and you probably can do a really cool
stuff with it since you can basically dial any color and temperature you want this is really cool
night shots car interior this is definitely cool because on top of the size you can just slap it
on the car because of the magnetics and it's going to be holding pretty strong the magnets over here
actually really good um another application would be if for example you do something like
a documentary news and you can just put it on top of your camera it's definitely going to give
you a nice light output in front of your subject now let me be clear this light is very little so
the output the power output even though it's very very bright at night obviously
don't get me wrong you're not going to be able to do any kind of lighting during the day so
keep that in mind this light would be excellent for completely dark environments when you need
a little bit of light this guy right here will save you plus let me show you with
this little honeycomb it's just basically like rubber just put it like that very simple boom
and you have a nice direct light output again for the money this is very incredible value that's
why i wanted to do a review about it and of course i'm gonna put a link below so you can check it out
is it light for everybody no however for those applications that i listed or maybe you're doing
your youtube channel you can easily use this thing maybe put it somewhere off camera and you can do
a nice um lighting with this also if you're a photographer and you want to do maybe a product
lighting this kind of light especially that it has usbc so it's a you know future proof light
with the universal usbc now that it's a standard you're going to be able to power this thing up and
basically do a nice product photography again maybe one light not going to be enough however
if you have two or three of those lights since they're so cheap you're gonna be able to dial
very nice colors and basically look pocket light f7 mini rgb check out link in the
description below i'm gonna post it thank you for watching and i'll see you guys next time take
care
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