Ahoj! Studio lighting is on the agenda today.
Very interesting package from GVM arrived at the studio. It's worth to look at it
and explore the possibilities. We're gonna talk about different lighting setups while
we have a closer look at these lights. Now, I'm not being paid nor being told what to say
but I would like to thank GVM for providing these lights for a review GVM-50SM. If you are new here,
welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula. This channel is all about photography and video, camera challenges
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As a youtuber being on this platform for some time, I went through different lights. Few of
them, some of them were working for me, others were not. If I'm going to choose a light, it has
to be absolutely silent. One of the best choices would be panel lights. GVM designed this product
GVM-50SM specifically for YouTube video shooting and also for senior photography enthusiasts.
This is also suitable outdoors as it is compatible with NP-F series batteries. Those are not
included. What makes it special is the fact that this light is double-sided having lots of beads
to make it very powerful. Let's look at the whole package and what's included. First of all I have
two lights package but you can choose from three different options. One light, two lights package
or three lights package. This two lights package is quite heavy and it has a lot of stuff. There
are two 50 -SM bi-color and RGB double sided video panel lights, two power cables, light diffusers,
light barn doors, honeycomb covers, light stands and user manual. Let's have a closer look at
one of these LED lights. Both sides are high power light 50W. Product weight is 2.7 kilogram
and size is displayed on the screen. One side is RGB with 476 SMD LED beads. I didn't count them
but I trust GVM that all 476 beats are there. Those come with 0 to 360 degrees
full color and color saturation adjustment. The other side is bi-color LED light with 384
white lamp beads and 384 warm lamp beads which can be adjusted between 3200 to 5600 kelvin,
cold and warm light. This is the brightness light can reach. Before I show you how you
can operate these lights and use their app with them, let's actually look at the lighting setups,
what you can do with these lights. First option would be adding a color to your studio for video
thumbnails or photography in general. You don't need to use the paper background. Simply choose
the color and light up the whole background. I like to also light up a certain parts of the room
to make it a bit more dynamic and interesting. Next option will be lighting up a person
or object with different colors. You can use one of the lights as your main light with the help
of the little soft box with the grid to make it very directional. It's really great that
they included so many accessories in the package. You can use the second light as your fill light.
You can use one of the lights as a hair light. Very simply place it behind you to light your hair
and shoulders. This will create the separation between you and the background. If you place a
little lamp somewhere in the background and make sure the color temperature is matching,
it will look like the lamp is lighting your back. Lastly, the scenes can be used creatively
like the candle, paparazzi, police. Those are certainly not only for fun but come in handy when
you actually need it for certain filming scenes. Now that you have seen what these lights can do,
let's look at the way you operate them. You can do that manually or with the help of an app. Power
switch is here at the bottom. There are two knobs there as well. One is for brightness adjustment
and the second one is actually a button as well. It has many functions. If you press once, it will
switch light mode. If you press and hold for three seconds, it will enter or exit the scene mode.
Here on the panel you have a nice LCD screen where you can get all the information you need.
Current brightness, control mode, light modes, light parameters, scene number, channel numerical
and battery power of the light. Besides the LCD screen you have plus and minus buttons
and mode button. The mode button allows you to switch between rotate,
slave, master and app. When you are in rotate, you will use a knob to adjust the parameters.
When you are in slave mode, you will use plus and minus buttons to make further adjustments.
When you are in master you will use the knob and it will also control other lights in slave mode.
So you don't have to go and adjust each light individually. You can set up up to 12 channels.
Last one is app which is self-explanatory. You will use an app on the phone. We will look at
it shortly. Let's go back to this knob at the bottom. Short presses can switch between CCT, hue,
saturation and scene. It has eight kinds of scene lights. Lightning, police car, candle light, TV,
bad light bulb, party, disco and paparazzi. Let's look at the GVM LED app. The light
will get connected to your smartphone via Bluetooth. Once you register and enter the
app you will see 4 interfaces. First one is the color temperature control interface.
Here you can control brightness and at the bottom is your color temperature.
Next one is the RGB control interface. Here you can choose the color you want,
make it stronger or dimmer and also choose the saturation you need. Scene light is next.
Simply choose your scene brightness and cycle and here you have a choice between 0.5
to 5 seconds. Last one is called my scene. Here is where you can save up to 6 custom light effects
and this is very helpful if you need to reshoot something the next day. You don't have to remember
what color you had set. You save it here and come back to it whenever you need to. This app makes
it very fast to operate the whole setup once you have one light set to master and other to slave,
you can control them all at the same time. These are quite powerful lights with many possibilities.
I'll for sure use them in future projects, you will see them quite a bit on this channel. Well
for those interested to see the pricing in your currency depending on where you live, link can
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