Litepanels are great and all...but WAY OVERPRICED. Check out this website, wwwDOT it-photovideo DOTcom. You can also google them, "Intellytech." They sell lights just like Litepanels but are so much less expensive and are actually brighter!!! They have extremely accurate color temperatures and are very lightweight and durable. I bought the Socanland and CamLight lights and LOVE THEM!!!
Dont you just hate it when people say "Degrees Kelvin" instead of Kelvins.....NO DEGREES , Degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius NOT KELVIN...nuff said.....If you are talking about colour Temprature then its JUST KELVIN...... OK.......... 5600 Kelvin
6500 Kelvin and so on NOT DEGREES..........get it....? have i said it enough time now?
these lights are great IF you are George Lucas or have won the Lottery,for the rest of us....... we will have to wait another 25 years for the price to drop.
LED panels do rock. But why do you pretend to be objective here? You introduce your knowledgeable lighting guy as some sort of expert worthy of reviewing this product, yet he constantly refers to "our products". This is nothing but a commercial masquerading as some helpful review show, and you are nothing but claques. Give us a break. We are not idiots here.
However the price of these lights is simply ridiculous. In the UK the 1x1 Series retails between £1500 - 2300£ depending the model. A bag of 1000 hi quality LEDs costs roughly £100. This is a shameless rip-off. For lighting a set properly one might need several litepanels which can easily go over £10k! As you put it: we really are not stupid! They're just some f***ing lights.
For this price i'll stick with my "heavy awkward" lights and pay for the extra energy consumption :)
Thank you so much for this video. After doing some research on lite panels, I believe this is the way to go for a few of my productions coming up. The sheer convenience and portablity of these makes them worth the money. The dimmer, and the bi-color, is amazing. Not to mention they dont get HOT! and run on batts. Thanks again!
Here's something else cool about Litepanels: color temperature is unaltered throughout the entire dimming spectrum...that's actually a pretty big deal.
And on a side note: I still love HMIs and will always continue to use them, but Litepanels sure do travel better!
The suggested retail price for a Litepanels 1x1 kit including everything needed for both AC and DC power is $2790. The closest thing I could find (even though it has less light output) was the Arri 125 Watt HMI Fresnel with a ballast for $2860. This of course isn't battery powered. You do the math.
Maybe you didnt get my point. For 2,790 dollars i could buy about six, three piece tungsten light kits with stands, dimmers, soft boxes, barn doors and a carrying case. Why in the world would some one want to spend an est. 3,000 dollars on ONE light? "Omg its LED!" Yea and whats so special about that? Theyve been around quite a while. YOU do the math.
There is certainly value to having a multi-instrument tungsten kit...we use them all the time. The real advantage to litepanels is that you can get the models that are 5600 degrees Kelvin. Tungsten would require a gel. You loose at least 1 - 1.5 stops of light. In reference to tylerpomeroy's comments, for many situations its much more economically feasible to buy a tungsten light kit, but you just couldn't use them as daylight sources easily...also they're not easily battery powered.
Oh fantastic, someone who owns a couple of litepanels. Oh wait you dont? Whats wrong? Dont have enough money? Exactly what im saying. I NEVER said they were a bad product. My ONLY complaint is the price. You want to stay ignorant, go ahead.
@tylerpomeroy You could buy a few of the cheap camera mounted ones and strap them together I guess. Nowhere near that price...probably cost you $200 or so.
Litepanels are great and all...but WAY OVERPRICED. Check out this website, wwwDOT it-photovideo DOTcom. You can also google them, "Intellytech." They sell lights just like Litepanels but are so much less expensive and are actually brighter!!! They have extremely accurate color temperatures and are very lightweight and durable. I bought the Socanland and CamLight lights and LOVE THEM!!!
TheCameraPro 7 months ago
KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN DUDE, FUCK
superduploman 10 months ago
Litepanel = ripoff
go to ebay and grab the same stuff for fraction of the price.
shahn78 1 year ago
Dont you just hate it when people say "Degrees Kelvin" instead of Kelvins.....NO DEGREES , Degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius NOT KELVIN...nuff said.....If you are talking about colour Temprature then its JUST KELVIN...... OK.......... 5600 Kelvin
6500 Kelvin and so on NOT DEGREES..........get it....? have i said it enough time now?
576ito1080p 1 year ago
these lights are great IF you are George Lucas or have won the Lottery,for the rest of us....... we will have to wait another 25 years for the price to drop.
576ito1080p 1 year ago
lol 3:11 - 3:14 his eyes are close
italianbull7760 1 year ago
Power LEDs have better efficiency than those 5mm type
jaesungauzakim 1 year ago
LED panels do rock. But why do you pretend to be objective here? You introduce your knowledgeable lighting guy as some sort of expert worthy of reviewing this product, yet he constantly refers to "our products". This is nothing but a commercial masquerading as some helpful review show, and you are nothing but claques. Give us a break. We are not idiots here.
paintbrushfilms 2 years ago
The guy is Litepanels expert not a lighting expert. I assume he works for litepanels hence the use of the term "our products".
DGrieux 2 years ago
However the price of these lights is simply ridiculous. In the UK the 1x1 Series retails between £1500 - 2300£ depending the model. A bag of 1000 hi quality LEDs costs roughly £100. This is a shameless rip-off. For lighting a set properly one might need several litepanels which can easily go over £10k! As you put it: we really are not stupid! They're just some f***ing lights.
For this price i'll stick with my "heavy awkward" lights and pay for the extra energy consumption :)
DGrieux 2 years ago
Thank you so much for this video. After doing some research on lite panels, I believe this is the way to go for a few of my productions coming up. The sheer convenience and portablity of these makes them worth the money. The dimmer, and the bi-color, is amazing. Not to mention they dont get HOT! and run on batts. Thanks again!
Covae5533 2 years ago
Here's something else cool about Litepanels: color temperature is unaltered throughout the entire dimming spectrum...that's actually a pretty big deal.
And on a side note: I still love HMIs and will always continue to use them, but Litepanels sure do travel better!
dvpa08 2 years ago
By the way, thank you for your educated replys, unlike wolfangdigital. I was well aware of the features of the litepanel. Thanks.
tylerpomeroy 2 years ago
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tylerpomeroy 2 years ago
The suggested retail price for a Litepanels 1x1 kit including everything needed for both AC and DC power is $2790. The closest thing I could find (even though it has less light output) was the Arri 125 Watt HMI Fresnel with a ballast for $2860. This of course isn't battery powered. You do the math.
dvpa08 2 years ago
Maybe you didnt get my point. For 2,790 dollars i could buy about six, three piece tungsten light kits with stands, dimmers, soft boxes, barn doors and a carrying case. Why in the world would some one want to spend an est. 3,000 dollars on ONE light? "Omg its LED!" Yea and whats so special about that? Theyve been around quite a while. YOU do the math.
tylerpomeroy 2 years ago
It's relatively heat free with significantly lower power consumption compared to tungsten.
It's lower maintenance as bulbs don't get blown easily due to its low heat output.
Battery powered means more mobility. Like the host said, it can be mounted on Glidecam/Steadicams. It's lightweight.
YOU'RE the one with the math problems.
You wanna stay a dinosaur, go ahead.
wolfangdigital 2 years ago
There is certainly value to having a multi-instrument tungsten kit...we use them all the time. The real advantage to litepanels is that you can get the models that are 5600 degrees Kelvin. Tungsten would require a gel. You loose at least 1 - 1.5 stops of light. In reference to tylerpomeroy's comments, for many situations its much more economically feasible to buy a tungsten light kit, but you just couldn't use them as daylight sources easily...also they're not easily battery powered.
dvpa08 2 years ago
Oh fantastic, someone who owns a couple of litepanels. Oh wait you dont? Whats wrong? Dont have enough money? Exactly what im saying. I NEVER said they were a bad product. My ONLY complaint is the price. You want to stay ignorant, go ahead.
tylerpomeroy 2 years ago 2
@tylerpomeroy You could buy a few of the cheap camera mounted ones and strap them together I guess. Nowhere near that price...probably cost you $200 or so.
davidgrahamscott 1 year ago