 Let's see if this works. One, two, three. Ah! So I got something in the mail today and I'm excited. It's not wine, it's something else different. Sorry, I know my, I just got out of the shower, my hair is a mess, my tasting area, my workroom's a mess, but I'm really excited to do this. So obviously not this year, but in normal years, I'm traveling full time. That means I carry everything with me. I have to be very cognizant of the gear that I have, but I found a couple of things a few years ago I wanted to get there on my wish list and I finally picked them up. There are a few lights to add some accents to the background, some fill lights, and I'm gonna show you from Aputure. I'm so excited, this is not a sponsored video. I actually purchased these wines with my own money. What we got here, we got some Styrofoam. Ah, didn't even come close. Anyways, let's see what we got here. First kind of a basic Aputure light, we have the Aputure M1M9. This is a light that can go on top of the camera and an accent light, I'll be playing around with it. But this is what I'm super excited about. This is the Aputure MCRGB light to see right. If you see right there, there's like, there's a bunch of colors because this light can turn color. I'm not a tech channel, I'm not a super hardcore techie, but I do follow a lot of YouTube tech channels. I think it's so interesting and how passionate they get about gear and what kind of cool stuff's out there. I'm gonna open these up and then I guess see what they can do. Okay, what do we have? A paper, box, random little card that says inspection qualified also. Nice little pouch, cool. So I know it's a tiny light. I'm excited about this. What do we have here? Cable, oh, mount for camera, nice. The light itself, super small, like a credit card, a little bit thicker than a credit card, and then some gels and diffuser. This light can come off, the light cover can come off with a magnet and then you can stick diffusers. Now the light I'm super excited about. This light was a little more expensive in Europe. I think in the US it's about 90 bucks in Europe, it's a little bit more. Ooh, says the credit card, heavy, has magnets, awesome. See what else we have in here. Instructions, another cool little pouch. Ooh, this time with a carabiner, diffuser box. Let me see how this goes on here. Little stickies, Velcro, I guess if you're on the go you wanna stick it to something that's no problem. Velcro, let's charge them up, see how they work and see if it adds anything to the ambiance of what's going on here. Hurry up, charge, charge, charge. Charge, come on. So I'm just sitting here waiting for the battery to charge. I hate it cause the red light's staring right at me. I just want it to be finished. Charging's done and we're back. There's plenty of tech reviews about these lights out there but I'll go over a few basics for the Amran-M9. Amran-M9, this is only one color temperature, 5,500 degrees Kelvin plus or minus 200, just an on-off switch, just an up and down brightness level. And I got this, not as a key light but something like a fill light. I think the most powerful thing is to use it as an accent light. For instance, I'm gonna put it down here. There, does that make everything look okay? Just a fun, inexpensive light. I think I've seen it around on Amazon for 40, 45 bucks, a little bit more in Europe. But this is the light that I was most excited to get. You know, the M9's a little bit plasticky, a little bit flimsy if I had to be critical. This Aputure MC RGB is substantially meteor. It feels heavy, feels like metal, feels meteor. But that's not why I got this light. That's not why I'm shooting this video. This light has such a cool feature. You download this app called the Citus Link app. You sync it up via Bluetooth. And look at this, and using the app I can, oh, I can raise the temperature, intensity, and change color. So that's what's really cool, the app's easy. If you have multiple Aputure lights, you can get these lights to talk to each other like a little mini network. I think on full blast, this says it's supposed to last two hours, fully charged. I think the M9's supposed to be one out 1.75 hours. But this app has a cool feature where I can actually scan a color and make it show up on this light. I just go to white, and then on the screen we're gonna go to Picker, and we're gonna see if this works. I'm so excited. So let's say that I just want to match up with the color of my Corvin, this nice red color. Let's see if this works. One, two, three. Ah, how cool is that? We're gonna actually try and see if I can pick up different wine colors with this app. So it's cool, I have a white wine and orange wine and a red here. We're gonna try to match them up and see if the light changes color based on wine. I don't know, but just thought it would be fun. This Falanguina from Tenuta Cavalier Pepe, Santa Vada, it's a barrel fermented Falanguina. This is actually my favorite Falanguina I've ever had. I'm not a huge fan of the grape, but this is an exceptional wine. So, ah, I'll deal with it later. Kind of a pale yellow color. Still smells good. Let's pick it up and see if the light here will match up with the wine color. Let's give it a try. I think I gotta put it up against something white here. Oh, much better, I think this is gonna work. Ah, decently well, that's kind of tough. Let's try an orange wine. Good thing I have my trusty Corvins here and plenty of glasses. Cool, with the app it makes it, maybe if you're not even into filmmaking, it makes it like a cool little party trick. If you're into being a YouTuber or video making, you can use this as a cool accent light. This is significantly darker in color. So, let's see if this will pick it up here. I'm so excited, this is so much fun. All right, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. Okay, a little bit more orangey in color. I guess it's hard to see, so to speak. Let me flash it down. There we go. So you see the bottom, it starts to be a little bit more orangey. Let's say we wanna go back to more of a whiter color. Now we're gonna try with a red wine. I have an Amorone here, so it's gonna be significantly darker in color. This is what I'm really curious because, you know, red wines, especially big red wines are not necessarily red, they're kind of almost like black in color, so to speak. I actually did a video breaking down and explaining Amorone, you know, it's a wine that I really enjoyed when I first was starting to get into wine. I've kind of not drank as many Amorones or tasted as many lately, but I wanna start getting back into it because obviously it's one of Italy's greatest wines. It's a wine that's very popular and a lot of people like. So this is significantly darker in color, but I wanna see if this light will pick up this color. Let's give it a go here. The app's kinda having a hard time picking up the color. It keeps changing different shades of red here. Ah, there we go. So there's a shade of Amorone right there, so not too bad, right? What do you use these for? Use these for accent lights. Let's say I wanna kind of add a little bit of color. Or maybe I wanna, I don't know, add some kind of highlight, odd color there. Try one thing here. Let's see if it kind of picks up the maroon color in my shirt here. Ah, not so bad. Anyways, I'm gonna use this kind of as an accent light. Let's turn up the intensity. I promise I'll play around with it more. You see it in the background there. We'll change up, see how we can use these lights in a little bit better way, make the videos better. When I started my YouTube journey, when I started making videos, I was only using an iPhone 6 and some Sennheiser wireless mics. I travel around the world full time. Well, not now with all these crazy times, but hopefully when the world starts to open up again, I define different products that can give a good result, but don't weigh a ton. The thing that's annoying is you accumulate more electronic stuff, more gear, you have to deal with the cables and all that kind of stuff. I'd like to know, if you had any of these lights, do you find, could you find any use for them? What do you think I should do with them in these videos? I'd love to hear your comments. So stay tuned and I will see you at the next video. 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