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Let's get into it.
So, I've got the Tolifo S60 RGB LED 2 lighting kit here.
So, that's that two light set.
Ad it comes in this carry bag which is great
because a lot of other lighting kits
sometimes they neglect to include a carry bag
and it's good to see they've included one here.
And it's a decent one too
because it's got a few straps here.
You can see there's a shoulder strap, there's a handle strap
and there's also larger straps here,
and what they're used for are for the stands typically.
So, you can feed a couple of stands through there
because most of the time,
larger stands won't fit in the bag itself
and you usually just carry them all in one kit
by feeding it through this these straps here.
Now, opening this up,
the main zipper compartment here is a double zipper.
And it has a velcro attachment here at the edge.
And this is all the stuff that's included.
So firstly, we have the operating guide
and the instruction manual as well as a remote control
because you can wirelessly remote control these lights.
It has a 50 meter distance.
Now, on the inside here, we've got some separators
and we've got the lights themselves.
One of the lights. There's a second light.
And we've got some AC power adapters,
two of those, two cables and the two stands as part of the kit.
Now, these stands based on the size
appear to be smaller light stands.
They'll be enough to support these lights here
but if you are using heavier light stands,
that's when you'll be using those straps though.
And it looks like that's it.
So, there are no outer compartments at all.
And there's also no inner compartments.
It's just one big compartment here for all the lights,
the stand.
You've got a separator part here,
that's the full length of the bag
and that's where the stands are underneath
and then the lights are on top. So, I've got the two S60 lights
with me here on some small desktop stands.
So, these desktop stands aren't included.
They're just our little display stands.
You do have the larger 1.8 meter stands or 180 centimeters.
And here, we can see the lights themselves.
They're about the sizeof say an iPad or so.
I believe they are 30 cm wide, 20 cm tall.
It's about 11x8 inches.
So, you can see there's some barn doors here
and these band doors help direct the light a little bit better.
The actual beam angle of the LEDs is 140 degree.
So, you can see you can cut that in a lot better
if you want to narrow it down to your subject,
direct the light, use the built-in barn doors.
Now, the only disadvantage
I guess that you can't remove these barndoors
if they get in the way.
So, the advantage of these barn doors here
are that you can actually create your own makeshift softbox.
If you have some baking paper,
you can clip that to the front here
and then you can soften the light a bit better.
But you can see the actual beam angle will be sort of
in that directed light
rather than that wider spread of light.
Now, some features of these lights include that they are
CRI and TLCI rating of 95+.
There's color adjusting from 3200 kelvin to 5600 kelvin.
It's 60 watts of output and that's coming from 600 LEDs.
And there's a mixture there because these are RGB lights.
You've got the standard color temperature
LEDs as well as RGB LEDs built in.
Now, you do have some slide-in diffusers also.
So, if you were to do that softbox thing that I mentioned.
It would be better to actually slide out these diffuser panels.
So, these slide out diffuser panels,
you can see there's some sort of covering on it.
So, you can peel that off if you wanted to go ahead and use them
because that is blocking the way
that's just there for protection during transport.
And you can see there you've got the bare bulbs of these LEDs.
Now, that's when you'd probably want to have that maximum output
and then you'd use that baking paper
that I was mentioning to create that softbox.
So, you're not double diffusing it.
You're not using that to diffuse it
as well as the baking paper
and you're still getting maximum output
because when you do use a softbox,
LEDs tend to get a little bit weaker
and the light tends to get a bit softer.
So, you can see there the mixture of the LEDs.
You got the color temperature LEDs mixed in with the RGB
LEDs, and the 600 of them in total.
Now, the actual build of the light itself
is made from aluminium. So, it's quite a decent build.
I mean you just only got these coverings
on the side here that are made from plastic.
And when you look at the back panel here,
there's two options to power the light.
You've got the usual
AC input there, so you can plug it directly in.
And you've also got some battery slots here.
Now, these support the Sony NPF series batteries.
So, you can operate these lights with two of them.
These aren't included in the kit.
So, you need to purchase those separately.
But it's good to see that you have compatibility to take this
with you on location or outside if you have a shoot outside.
And you've got some basic controls here
which we'll go through shortly.
Now on top of that, you've got the remote control.
So, this remote control here wirelessly controls
these via 2.4 gigahertz.
You just set the channel in the group
and you can basically control the color temperature,
chuck it into RGB mode, adjust the intensity.
So, it's really convenient to have this,
especially if you have it mounted on a high stand
and you don't want to go all the way up to the the light
and change all the settings behind the panel.
And the output of the light itself is 2000LUX at 1m.
So, it's a decent amount of output
coming from an LED panel. Usually the higher led outputs
are coming from single point source COB LEDs.
So, that's a decent amount for such small compact lights.
And you can control the intensity
of the light from 10% to 100%.
So, we're going to go through the menu for the S60 RGB.
Firstly, let's turn the light on.
And you can see there's two sides of the switch here.
There's one side which is battery
and the other side's the DC or the AC/DC.
And you can turn that on there and we plugged it in.
So, we'll turn it on to the right side
and straight away you are in color mode.
But we can change this mode really quickly into
just your standard CCT mode.
So, just going through the back panel here,
firstly you've got your two battery mounting plates.
You've got DMX in and out ports here.
You've got the dial that controls the adjustment
for the intensity as well as color temperature.
You've got the on/off switch.
And you've got three buttons along the top here.
And you can see there's LEDs just above that.
And then you've got the LCD screen too.
Now, the LEDs here show what mode you're in
and it tells you kind of what you're currently doing in terms
of jumping in the different settings for the menu.
Now this mode here we're in CCT mode
and that's just regular color temperature mode.
And if we wanted to change that,
you just press down on mode again
and you can see the mode has changed to a little orange light
and that means you're in RGB mode.
And here we have the 360 degrees of 360 different colors
that you can go through.
And you can see it's changing there in the background also.
Now, there's no quick way to spin through
to a certain color that you want.
You just need to use the dial here to change the setting.
And you've also got and when you press down on that.
Now, you've got two sides here to the dimmer
and then you've got the color temperature that's at.
So, this is on CCT mode.
You can see the lights change to blue.
That means we're in CCT mode.
We can change the intensity of the light on the left side
and you can see it's a 99.
And you can go all the way down to 10%.
Now, also you can change the color temperature.
So, if you press it down on the center dial,
you can see color is now highlighted.
And it's on 5600 kelvin and you can adjust
that in 100k increments down to 3200 kelvins.
You can see that's more warmer light now.
And that's pretty much it.
Now, in terms of controlling the wireless,
here on the left button
you can see you can turn off wireless completely
or you can turn it on by holding it down
and setting the wireless channel that you're on.
So, let's say let's put it on four.
Now, you've got your remote control here.
The remote control takes two AAA batteries
and it's convenient remote control
because you can control both of the lights.
You can track them both on the same channel
or you can have them on separate channels
so that way you can control them independently.
But we have them on channel 4 here.
So, we'll jump into the remote, press channel
and you can see channels highlighted
and just change that over to four,
there we go, and that's on four.
And now we're talking to the light,
so if I change the mode,
that should change it to color temperature mode.
And you can see I'm adjusting it
and it's adjusting as I'm controlling the rem control.
And there's the intensity as well
and the intensity is going up also.
And you can jump into mode here.
And mode will change it to that RGB mode.
And you can set the hue. So, let's set it to say 147
which is kind of like a teal green-blue.
And you've got the intensity too,
and that's controlling intensity.
Now, there's another option at the bottom here
which is saturation. And saturation for most other
LED lights means that you can control
the saturation of that particular color.
And you can see it's actually not adjusting
despite me changing the intensity of that saturation.
And it's not changing at all.
And that's because you can't actually change
the saturation of these colors.
It only shows that it supports 360 colors.
Now, if you have other RGB lights
that have saturation enabled, that means you can control
the different levels of that particular color,
how intense and saturated that color is.
So, this light in particular does not support that
and that's just something to note.
You also have a start button on the remote control here.
And the start button usually is used for lighting effects
but this light doesn't have lighting effects.
So, it seems like this remote control here
is a universal one that's used for other Tolifo lights.
So, that's just something to take note of.
So, why would you purchase the S60 lights?
Basically, they're LED panels that are great as fill lights
or just as a starting lighting kit.
They have a few additional features
that other LED panels don't have.
So, you've obviously got the color temperature adjusting,
you've got the RGB capabilities.
There aren't many RGB LED panels on the market.
So, just off the top of my head, you've only got the smaller
LED RGB lights like from apurture
and from Godox such as the ALMC or the Godox M80.
So, there aren't many that are similar to these lights here.
Other brands that have similar options include pixel.
I believe it's called the K80.
Neewer have their own RGB LED light.
And there's also GVM LEDs.
So, there aren't many on the market.
Now, these are also reasonably priced too.
So, as part of a lighting kit that comes with the stands,
you've got the remote and you've got the two lights
and the carry bag. Really cost effective.
We'll throw the pricing on screen
as well as some of the conversions.
And on top of that, you've got the built-in barn doors.
So, that means you've got a modifier
with the light that's pre-built in.
You've got the AC and also the battery operation.
So, that means you can use them on field on location.
So, that's great too.
And overall, they're just a really useful panel.
We actually use these lights
as some of our background lighting here.
So, right now we've substituted them
with some smaller RGB LED lights.
But these are our typical RGB lights that use
for the ambient lighting and the background lighting
and we always adjust the colors based on the scene.
So, these are really useful and practical lights
as part of an entire lighting setup.
And you may not use them as a key light.
Although, they would be perfect to use for that.
So, if you've got an interview scenario,
it's still perfect to use for that.
But usually, we're using like a larger COB light as a key light.
I mean our setup, we're using Aputure 300D,
but we use these as background lights all the time
and just fill lights in general.
So, overall a great light cost effective
and something that we definitely recommend.
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