hello I'm wanderer001 and this is my review of the ephoto photography video portrait studio
light kit I know it's a mouthful and this is actually something that I picked up a long
time ago probably like five years ago and never actually used however with the current state that
everything is in right now and working from home has become a necessity for me proper lighting is
also a necessity because well the office space that I have accommodated for am i working from
home only has one window which is located over that way and only gets direct daylight about
three o'clock in the afternoon so for all the video conferencing that I've had to do I needed
something like this to help make it look a little more presentable so there is a set of two of
these light stands and these light stands can be expanded up to seven feet tall you get two of the
umbrellas which are actually your back lighting you get three CFL bulbs and three adjustable heads
so what I'm gonna do is we're gonna come over here and we're going to take a look here you've got our
CFL bulb which is a 45 watt perfect day light bulb but because it is a CFL bulb it does require it to
warm up a little bit so let's actually turn that on so you get an idea and you see the umbrella
portion here balances light back so if you're not quite familiar with how these work the light
points that way it bounces back and reflects at what it's pointing at now the umbrella here is
28 inches across and again you get a set of two of these normally you would have one on the left one
on the right and then back there you also have a mini stand which is kind of like you put it
behind you so that's why you get three bulbs and three of those adjustable heads there now the bulb
once it reaches maximum warming for CFL bulbs it uses twenty four point five watts of power
so you'll double that or triple that depending on how many lights you are using so they're not
terrible but keep in mind these are the CFL bulbs that come with it it does not this early mean that
you have to keep using those CFL bulbs you can swap them out other light bulbs now you do have
just shy of a ten-foot cable here now I will say depending on how tall you have this is how much of
that usable cable you will actually get because you see it runs down and then around and I will
say if you have this up extraordinarily high even having this kind of like pulled out a little bit
I'm gonna give it a little tug because it's not the most stable thing even with the base set as
wide as it can be like I have over on this one which again is the other of lights which
I currently have off so they are extraordinarily light which makes it easy for moving them which
is good however you do sacrifice a little bit of that stability with that move ability so we're
gonna turn the light off here and we're going to talk about a few things everything is adjustable
the angle here is adjustable how far away your umbrella is is also adjustable as well as how
tall it is everything is pretty much done with these tension screws so here we can see tension
screw this will allow us to take this portion here which is the actual lighting mechanism off you
have right here the tension screw that holds the umbrella piece and again you want to bring that
closer you want to bring it farther away this is how you would do that and down here we have
the raising and lowering mechanism so making this taller or not here we have the adjustable tension
screw for how this angle so again depending on what you need this is very adjustable and all
the way down here at the base this is so you can fold it up now aside from the 2 tall 7 foot tall
key lights here and again we're kind of getting an idea of what my pseudo office is because there's
my folding chair which that does not work out very well but you also get a carrying case now
the carrying case is how it is transported I will so I actually used the carrying case to keep all
of the accoutrement for it just in case I ever needed to move this somewhere grandi right now
it's living in my bedroom but here you go there you go you've got two of the three CFL boxes
because the last ones right down here and then you have three of these lamp adjustment boxes and you
have two storage for the seven foot and then your mini one over here and again right now I'm not
currently using the mini one with my particular setup but instead I just have a lamp behind me
right there the the carrying case itself is just it's nylon it's nothing to write home about you
get like these really generic instructions that are pretty much for any one of these we're gonna
say Chinese manufactured lamps because you might find it under different names but they're pretty
much all the same product now I will say one of the real reasons that you want to use lighting
like this not only if you're just doing like I am web conferencing at home if you have YouTube
because that's originally what I got this for if you're looking to up your YouTube game and
you can't rely on actual daylight because that's the best kind of light if you can't use daylight
you would use something like this to improve your setup so let me show you what that looks
like using the two lamps alright so here we are under normal lighting circumstance I have the
one light behind it which is just the light for the room I'll quickly turn that off so you get
an idea of just kind of how dark it gets in here so if I don't have a fill like behind and I just
turn on and again the daylight is behind me but now I'm standing in front of the daylight so if
I turn on the left the light and then the right fill light you can kind of see how that brings
it all together and makes it pop a little more if I had the actual correct setup for the backlight
there it would make it even better so again one light off to light off and then natural daylight
if you can do it is always gonna be your best but for some of us that's not an option but here you
go so another reason why you might want to pick up some really cheap lighting for your YouTube
videos and or to improve your web conferencing call now these I picked up again five years ago
on a lightning deal for like $40 currently they're fifty dollars but if you looked into
the similar product range I'm sure you can find something that's just like this set up for $40
from another manufacturer under another name with that son we're picking up between 40 or 50 dollars
just to enhance the way that your lighting is so I have been wanderer001 if you have any questions
or comments please feel free to leave them in the area below and as always thanks for watching