hey folks Joey here with a video production show-and-tell for you guys in
the past you might have seen that I really like small light small LED lights
I talked about the aperture m9 this little small LED light array I've talked
about the quasar tube something I can move around and act very portable and
versatile but I want to introduce you to this new light that been playing with
for the last few days this is the Museo squared this is the second iteration of
the video light cube now you probably have seen us play with light cubes in
the past on things like product or macro photography and those are generally like
factory made small plastic containers with inexpensive average LED light
thrown in to flood out light this is not that this is a very very high quality
light very handmade well machined aluminum cube that packs a huge punch in
a very high quality CRI I CRI light now this got my attention a few weeks ago
when the Kickstarter launched for the Rio square I've seen the really a one I
haven't had chance to play with it but I'm always at my eye on it and I got a
chance to chat with the the founder mark of missoula our Marco is a fellow maker
and fellow tinkerer and you can tell that by looking at this even that's just
the packaging of this you can tell that he's kind of meticulously poured over
every detail in houses setup designed the modularity of it the versatility of
it just this beautiful laser-cut box you open it up and everything is laid out
with accessibility in mind now I'll go over a bunch of stuff that's in these
kits what I have here is the studio plus and the desk plus that's what was sent
to me for review units now I've only had this for like a few days so I don't like
really been playing with it so I'm giving you a show and tell I'll probably
do like a full review or a demonstration on how we use these to modify the modify
the light and do profit ography that review will come with the future this I
just wanted to introduce you to especially since the Kickstarter is
ending this week and if you have any interest you can pop over there and kind
of get some more detail on it but let's go over what's inside this box the first
thing as you open it you'll notice you like you this is an all aluminum made
small light cube with a variety of different color
temperatures I have mostly daylight 5600 I do have one tungsten of a UV light
that they get to play with but since most of our studio stuff is 5600
daylight that's what I opted for now like I said this stuff is high-quality
light this is a very high on the CRI index which is the color rendering index
which we can dive down a whole nerdy colors light science of charts later on
but for right now just know that the high number means it's very good a very
good representation of what the Sun or what pure light would be that's
important for a number of reasons especially for this kit this kits not
only for filmmakers and photographers because for us high quality light is is
very useful but we do want very nice looking light on the things that we
photograph but this also bleeds over into the scientific community the
research community or even stuff like arc restoration or they need a very
accurate representation they can't have cheap light throwing off color casts on
things when they're trying to reproduce something or they need something that's
just the pure daylight Sun in studios or in situations where they won't have it
they need something very high quality and that's what that's what these are a
lot of the research a lot of the R&D that went into these was to make sure
that that light is super accurate so that it could you know benefit all these
different parties but for us to filmmaking the photographer's it's just
gonna look very nice and it's gonna actually pack a a huge punch for what
these little lights are so let's talk a little bit about the body like I said
it's all aluminum it feels real sturdy it's got these little events here for
for cooling you flip it over and you got your power connector there it's all
magnetic on the bottom you have your quarter inch screw to attach to whatever
your quarter inch desires are and then this is where it gets really fun is with
the modifiers them and the front plate in the lenses the modifiers are all 3d
printed so you have different ways you can manipulate this light right now it's
just kind of blowing out into a cone there are a couple different variations
of these lenses that you can you can attach on if you want different degrees
but everything is magnetic so you essentially just pull off the front
plate and you have access to your to your your your light your light here
here you can change out your light if it burns out or goes bad touch back on the
front plate and then your modifiers just sit on front as well again magnetic
everything just kind of clicks on and it just has such a great just yeah the
power goes out to USB you can attach to any USB wall outlet or you can do what
I've been doing and been using one of these plates that the reallyö makes it
is a using the Sony NPF batteries which is very common I'm using that to power a
bunch stuff in here so I have a ton already and then it gives you six USB
outs so that you can essentially power one thing power all your lights with one
battery which if you know anything about my rigging is that I love single source
power solutions all of the powers my thing is on one battery as possible and
this plate allows me to do that there's a really op where you can access each of
these lights individually and change the the brightness and the dimming of them
there's a bunch of different kind of stanzas that desk unit where it comes
with a nice sturdy base and a stand they can screw through the quarter inch
there's a bunch of different rigging solutions we can make different arrays
again I'm like three days into this so I've yet to play with a lot of this
stuff but I did get to run a few different tests of just how I would use
this in a shooting situation so what I've done is I completely eliminated all
light in my my garage my studio I took out all the light and tried to emulate a
few different styles I set up some Gundam and did like a soft source area
light I did a balance off of a white like a white panel then I shot in a spot
added some fill then I used the tungsten to give it a little bit of like a sunset
highlight effect
then I change up the rig and I threw a do butene cloth down try to emulate one
of those like cocktail commercials made a few Japan had if you know water for
glasses shining some light through them similar situation some soft lights and
bounce again all rele oh and then I use the tungsten light again to highlight
that and then I did your your generic shop videos where you have your
woodworker shaving off wood things with some warm light of bouncing off of the
warm walnut wooden slabs and to end grain cutting boards all fun stuff and
then and I know this is not what this is supposed to be used for but I lit up
this entire situation with these lights only I didn't use any of the normal
lights I used I set up an array of three with the soft boxes on them shining
through grid cloth they gave me the key light here all day light and then I just
set up a reflector over here to give me a little bit of fill because I was kind
of dark here I have one just pretty bear just one shining oh no I do have a
little diffusion on that giving me a backlight or a hair light and that's it
that's uh that's how much of a punch to get these guys I mean it's three of them
right here are blasting through the a great loss of two layers of diffusion
and it's still giving me a nice key source and allowing me to bounce so that
kind of gives you a sense of how how the intensity of these lights are and
everything is that the daylight the camera set daylight so I will see when I
start to edit this video of how accurate that is but just judging by the preview
window looks pretty good and again being that these are high quality lights you
will not have any flickering in your your high speed ranges fro up to like a
ton of frame rate so I'll have a lot more thoughts and things again I'm still
new to this whole system here but I plan on doing some 3d printing of some of
these modifications on them I plan on trying ups and different rigs and
different emulation different styles and looking for a transom macrophotography
we do we will use this for product stuff we do a lot of product shots so we'll
use that there but as we start diving into those different operations with
these I will give you guys a full review video on this stuff but that's the real
o squared for now if you're interested go check out the Kickstarter
and Marco has a ton of information about the light and take you guys for watching
this video about lights this is all very exciting stuff for me and I'm looking
forward to playing with it more hopefully it's exciting for you guys too
I will see you guys next time Thank You doc done bye