Gerald, I love the nerd info I get from your channel! Keep up the good work!

Thnx! This was a huge help. Good vid.

I love these testing episodes 😂 Gerald always looks like he’s passively aggressively ignoring his lights for attention 😅

I dig this light, and just picked one up (off their site, Amazon sees to be OOS at the moment). I just made the move to full time RV living, so velcro and space are huge things for me! I have an Aperture 120D. Love it, bit the softbox makes it mammoth in my space. One thing I'd say, looking at your results would be that for soft lighting, some indirect bounce with this light might be the way to go. Seems bright enough you could hit it against a white wall, maybe some cheap white card from Michael's, etc. Or just get a sheet and make a "silk" out of it. I just did a 100 million dollar show where we used a ton of china balls on boom poles... so the sky really is the limit these days.

I dig it Gerald. Great review and comparison! I'm really enjoying my Falcon Eyes rx-12t thus far. I can't say enough about their value when traveling. I need to throw together a review of my own! Thanks!

@geraldundone

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, Phillip. Good to know! Cheers, mate. 😃👍

Solid review Gerald! Great to meet you at Kando 3.0! Hope you had a safe journey home!

@geraldundone

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Paul. You too! Cheers.

Best review! You smart

Comprehensive review! This is the go to video for anyone considering Flex LEDs. I started with considering Godox 1000Bi and the just released Amaran P60C, but may settle for a Flex60 or 100 from Godox.

I use Soonwell V-mount batteries. So far they have worked quite well. I was told that Soonwell actually makes their own cells. I want to get a flexible led but yeah it would be for mounting in strange places. Not on a stand. I have other lights already so this is on my want list for sure.

Hey Gerald, yes one of the only reasons why this product is better than the traditional LEDs is that its flexible... but also its super light weight AND you can attach it anywhere!! VS traditional lights, with the stands.... can be a pain in the a... love your videos!!

Aputure + umbrella makes the light look more beautiful! The flex panel looks more harsh on the face. If flexibility is the only advantage (and light output, of course), I'll keep my 672+umbrella for interviews. I am sure the weight of it is very very close (the power box form the flex panel looks heavy). Thanks for the video!

Thanks for your reviews! I like the weight and how compact the Flexible LED lights are but it seems like the Falcon Eyes SO-28TD would be quicker to setup and would travel find because of it's build quality. Which would travel with? I have the Aputure LS 300D but I don't want to travel with it when I'm shooting solo.

Colour rendition seems like it's significantly better on the aperture... but the possibilities of flexible lighting are exciting haha

Great video, made me happy when I got the notification you posted:) keep up the great work!

@geraldundone

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot! Appreciate it. Thanks for having notifications. 😃👍

@rufinacovell

4 жыл бұрын

Gerald Undone you may think I’m crazy but 😳can this be use on skin ? I’m asking since Esthetician’s LED lights are soooo expensive ..

The Soonwell FB-21 even at 30% appears brighter. Maybe knocking down the power another 5% would be closer. It appears slightly harsher at the 30% setting. I like the color of the Soonwell but that can be subjective. Thanks for the video.

For my taste, I like the softer highlights and shadow fall-off from the Aputure setup, but that might be more due to the diffusion from the umbrella vs a not so great softbox. Either setup looks good enough to me, however. Also, I really liked the glitzy look of those product shots!

@geraldundone

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's how I feel too. And yeah! I also got a kick out of the way it looks in product shots. Fun to play with.

I totally agree with you. I have 3 12x24 flexible lights and I'm not digging them. I don't need the flexible material. I just use them on stands. The ones I have were cheap Fositan brand from Amazon. They mount with a 1/4" hole in the frame and they feel really flimsy when they're mounted. I wish I had gotten something that came with U-mount yokes. Also, I think 12x24 is an awkward size for my needs. I'd probably be better off with 12x12.

First of all, I know it's an older video and I would pick the Aperture 672 since it was more pleasing and wrapped around your face better due to the better softbox. With that said I'm so torn on the huge control boxes and power supplies these flex lights come with. I only have experience with falcon and soonwell and they make the light's worthless for me. People don't talk much about how the flex lights might look like the perfect travel light but then after including and packing the control box and power supply it's like the same size and weight as all 3 of my 672's or my C120 II. Do you know of any flex lights that don't come with heavy control boxes and giant power supplies? I was retarted and never really saw reviews cover the giant power bricks and control boxes so I sit here with 4 flex lights and have never used them. :( Plus defusing them seems tough

Im really looking for an RGB one but I just cant make up my mind what one to go for

Hey Gerald,you should check out the Intellytech LC-160 LiteCloth 2x2. It can fold neatly and can range I think up to 10kelvin. Only drawback is the price is tripled lol. Still worth a look. Anyway, what is your take on continuous lights like this vs a strobe light for portrait photography? Will this be useful? I see a lot of advantages to use this indoors

Cool

Was hoping to see you test Warrior Pose on this LED mat. Still a thumbs up.

@geraldundone

5 жыл бұрын

All the yoga-related content goes up on my second channel. 😜

I miss the way you used to say "what is happening everybody?" Lol

Re: inability to swivel beyond 90 degrees - I get around this by using an EBay swivel light stand adapter and short telescopic boom arm. Voila! Fully swivelling flexlite for under 50 bucks extra. I’d just

Have you tried the Godox flexible LED?

I really like Aputure lights, but they are really pricey. I think it all depends what you are shooting - I took several thousand product pictures of luxury watches and got the best results with the cheapest lights I ever bought - only about 10 Euros on eBay. They were quite dimm and soft, but the watches weren't moving - so I used long exposure times - results were pretty good. When it comes to "bigger" lights, I really like the 120 from Aputure ... and on the road the small AL-MX for backlighting and stuff. I was never very happy with the LED-lights with several hundred small leds ... I just don't like the reflections they produce. Regarding the flexibel leds ... well, I'm not really convinced and I don't like the way to set them up. Of course I might be totally wrong ;)

@geraldundone

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Glad to know your perspective. 😃👍

@TheSmeagol630

5 жыл бұрын

It's kind of interesting how different users see price brackets. I know a gaffer who won't use "cheap" Aputure lights, and prefers to always rent Arri and ETC stuff.

@geraldundone

5 жыл бұрын

@TheSmeagol630 - I think it's LEDs that made those brackets the way they are. It allows for such a huge spectrum of pricing from $10 to $5000. There was a time when the 3 top 1K lights (including the ARRI) were within 10% of each other price-wise. But now you have to consider if you want that ARRI 1K, or the 120D or the GODOX. All of which are fractions of each other. It's peculiar. Good for the consumer though.

@TheSmeagol630

5 жыл бұрын

No kidding. I got to use an Arri Skypanel S30 during a workshop last year, and - besides some sick presets like fire and police lights - it had similar functionality to the GVM you reviewed. It is more powerful, and has a greater colour temp range, but not so much to warrant a C$5100 price difference.

I see what you mean in terms of putting it up on a stand. I have a linkstar flex light. I like the whole idea of the flexible light. It allows you to use light in many more places. Thanks for bringing up things that others may not. On another note, your intro song has grown on me. The first few times I heard it, I was like, “what in the world?” Now, I can be home making a sandwich, and suddenly I start humming to myself, “ dun, dun, Gerald Undone, dun-dun-dun he’s crazy🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. My wife and kids look at me like I’m crazy.

@geraldundone

5 жыл бұрын

Haha. That's awesome, Benjamin. 😂🙏

@C3Motorsport

5 жыл бұрын

LOL...it is catchy.

Gerald please make: "HLG and RAW for dummies" - you are the only one who can explain it to the masses. it feels like HD-DVD vs BLU-RAY all over again... who will emerge victorious??

@KeshavDulal

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, & True Flat vs Flat-like picture profiles, if that makes any sense. :D

@geraldundone

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion. Is it that people are confusing the two?

@xmlthegreat

5 жыл бұрын

HLG and RAW aren't even at the same level of abstraction in the video pipeline. RAW is the raw sensor readout. HLG is a luminosity curve applicable to a video format. There is no competition between them.

@punkrachmaninoff

5 жыл бұрын

@@geraldundone well imagine you are buying your first camera for semi-professional video... do i buy the fuji xt3 with internal 10-bit or the nikon with full frame prores raw? it is all so complicated... if sony makes a deal with apple, does that enable 8-bit pro-res on the atomos on my a7iii? will sony ever stop hoarding 10-bit? will the Panasonic S1 have an internal 10-bit codec that works on my samsung hdr tv? should i just buy the a6400 and expect that epic 100 mbps codec to remain relevant? do fuji/panasonic users deliver footage that justifies all those hard drives in that expensive dock? what is the optimal bit depth in this post nikon-is-useless-for-video because prores raw era we have seemingly entered? 😉

@geraldundone

5 жыл бұрын

I think I understand what you're saying now. I can see how that would be a bit daunting. Good suggestion!

The Aperture light at 30% is definitely softer and better diffused, but the level of light from the Soonwell at 9% is impressive. Still on the fence about these lights. I have to check out the other videos, but do you know off the top of your head what level of water resistance they're capable of (if any)? On another note...she's - - - - ing Matt Damon...I wonder if Scotty doesn't know? 🤣

@geraldundone

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha! 😂 I'm not sure about the water resistance. My understanding is that you can clean the surface with water, so it could probably handle a splashing, but I think out in the rain would be a problem. And the control box would obviously not be water resistant at all.

One thing for future light reviews would be to test if they flicker at high FPS.

@geraldundone

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion. How high are you concerned about? What's your typical highest?

@FoodTechLife

5 жыл бұрын

Gerald Undone 60 and 120fps although cellphones can do 240 but I doubt I would use a cellphone. I ask because sometimes the more affordable lights have this flaw. It’s not something you would find on a spec sheet either.

Very cool, but way too expensive. I was blown away by the price when I clicked the link! My goodness, this costs more than my entire lighting setup, yikes!

Feel free to press the dislike button twice! 😂😂 Great work with your videos my friend! You cover what needs to be covered in them and it is appreciated!

@geraldundone

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, George! 😃🙏

Great info as always, but nobody got the Matt Damon reference?

As a stills only photog i dont find led panels big enough to be useful except for jewelry photography...

_browses subscriptions_ .. hmm video on lights...boring, next....oh wait, it's Gerald Undone....*Click*

@geraldundone

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Keith! That's great to hear. Hope you enjoyed the video. 😃🙏

Worth noting that this isnt 50% more light than an Aputure 672, its actually 120-330% more light. Not sure where you got 50%, perhaps from simple photometric readings that dont account for beam angle or color temperature? 672C has 45W of led emitters, this light has 200W worth of emitters. the 672C uses only 23W of leds at 5600k or 3200k, this uses 100W at any color temp so its more than 4x as powerful.

@sharifsalem

5 жыл бұрын

Noah Yuan-Vogel watts does not necessarily correlate with lumens. Lumens measures light 💡, watts measures electrical consumption.

@noahyv

5 жыл бұрын

@@sharifsalem yes, except that it usually does when it comes to modern high CRI LED emitters. They are pretty consistently in the 80-100lm/w range. Of course other design specifics have an effect on photometrics. But assuming all else equal lm/w is generally surprisingly consistent for emitters of a similar age.

aperture looks better on the skin

i just wish the controller was smaller

1:18 the moment when you've realized that both units are imperial.

@geraldundone

5 жыл бұрын

It's true! But if we converted to metric it wouldn't sound as good when saying it's a 2x1. Only really works in feet. 😜

@shang-hsienyang1284

5 жыл бұрын

@@geraldundone lol

Gerald needs to stop hearting all our comments like big shot youtubers :D

@geraldundone

5 жыл бұрын

Haha. What would you rather I do? 😜

@8bitGoan

5 жыл бұрын

@@geraldundone just pin a comment asking how was our day or something :D

first?

I disliked this video twice.