 I think that this is the most compelling light currently available on the market today in its category. It is the new M20C from Juin. And why exactly do I think that? Well, it is for three reasons, least of which is the fact that I happen to think it looks great. I love the design, styling, and aesthetic of it. But more importantly than that, though, is just its versatility. That is driven by two things. Firstly, we've got this accessory pack that comes with it when you buy the Combo Pack. And that gives you just more control over the light source itself. So we've got a grid on here, which we'll look at later. You've also got these barn doors. So you've got more control over your light that way. And that, then, is coupled with just the sheer power of it. Because if we take a look at the size of this, I mean, it is really quite tiny. And you look there at the size of some post-it notes, there we go, it's exactly the same size. And yet, in this small form factor, it's packing 20 watts of power. Now, what that looks like is this, if I just turn it on. There we go, that's at 1%. Here it is at 50%. And now here it is at 100%. I mean, that is just difficult to put me to look into. So I'll just turn it off. But to get that much power in such a small form factor is pretty astounding, actually. And what that means, though, in practical terms, is this versatility that I'm talking about. Because suddenly now, you've got something that is a really pocketable light. And I mean, if I compare it to some things that I've got that are pretty similar in the studio, the Nunlite, Lito Lite 5C, these are basically the same sort of frontal area, different shape, but the same sort of area on the front. They're about the same weight, and they're about the same thickness as well. So in terms of space taken up in your camera bag or whatever, pretty comparable, right? Well, this is 7 watts. This is 20. So nearly three times the power in something that is of a comparable size. If you're going to choose something to take with you, this has got a lot more versatility. Because this one, I wouldn't be using that as a key light. But actually, you know what? If I was out somewhere, then I didn't have my full studio set up here. I could certainly be considering to use that as a key light. Obviously, I'd have to turn it down because that is quite, quite bright. But then couple that with these other options you've got in here in terms of mounting and so on. And this is what I say. It is just basically head and shoulders above everything else on the market today in this category because of this versatility that it gives at a really great price point as well, which we'll come on to a little bit later. So in this video, I am going to go through and do a sort of full demo of some of the features and then also talk through some of the pros and cons and also some of these accessories that come with it. Now, before I get into this, I do need to say that Juin did send me this for review. However, there is a bit of a tail to tail there because I've got some other content planned for this channel and for my other social channels. And so I've got a whole separate setup going on just over here that I'm going to be filming stuff in. And basically, I was looking for a couple of extra lights and I did all of my research, watched all the YouTube videos, watched all the reviews and I had already decided that this was the light that I was going to get or rather two of them. So I was going to get a couple of these for this other setup. And I'd even got to the point of having them in my shopping cart on Amazon, just getting a few other things together to add to them. So they were sitting there in my shopping cart when I got the email from Juin asking if I wanted to check them out. So of course, I did jump at the opportunity there, but they sent me one of them. Now the question is going to be, now that I've had this one, am I still going to go ahead and buy the other one so that I've got the two that I was originally intending? Well, I should really keep you hanging until the end and say, find out later, like any good YouTuber would, but I'm not any good YouTuber. So I'm just going to tell you right off the bat, not only am I going to buy another one of them for that actual setup that I was intending, but I'll likely buy another couple as well because as I say, they are just so versatile and it's something that I can see other uses for in the studio and also outside of the studio as well. So with that said, let's just get into taking a bit of a closer look at it, shall we? And we'll start with the actual main light itself without all of those fittings. So this is the sort of raw light on the inside, if you like. And what you can see here is we've already seen the front of it, that's got the diffusion on it already. So the LEDs are kind of behind that. So it's got some limited diffusion going on in there already. If we look at the side, we've got a couple of big vents going on there, on the side, on the top and on the other side as well. Also on the top though, we've got the USB-C, that is where you charge it. You can also power it off that as well. Now if you are running this at full power at 20 watts, the internal battery will last for 40 minutes. However, if you are running it at more like 25 watts, then it'll run for about three hours. But like I say, you can actually power it directly from that USB-C. So either have it into sort of mains, going into an adapter or obviously some sort of power bank if you are a bit more mobile. Now on the back then, you've got this thing down at the bottom, which is the battery. It's not removable, but that's essentially where the battery is. And then you can also see we've got a fan in the back here. We've got a little screen there, which I'll go through in more detail later. And then we've got these two dials, which are for making adjustments to the lighting settings. Now, mention of a fan might be a potential cause for concern. I talked about pros and cons. And obviously, if you've got any bit of lighting equipment with a fan in it, then people start to wonder, well, how loud is that gonna be? Is it gonna come through onto my recordings? Well, if I just go over to their website, they've got a little demo of what's going on with that fan. I can just bring that up for you now. So here we go with the little demo that they've got showing what's actually happening inside. They have got a massive, massive heat sink in there. And this is partly the reason why they've got so much power into this small form factor because it is actually able to dissipate a lot of heat through the heat sink combined with the fan. I should say though that the fan isn't on continuously. So when you just sort of fire it up, it's not gonna be just going on all the time. It's also a variable speed fan. So it depends on how hot it is. Will depend on how quick the fan is. But what I've just done is turned it onto full power. And now you'll be able to hear the fan if I hold it up to the microphone, bearing in mind that I've got a sensitive microphone. So likely you won't have the fan there, but obviously as I move it away, it disappears and you don't hear it so much to the point where when it's at arm's length, you're pretty much not hearing the fan at all. So that is in terms of how loud the fan is. Just dazzled myself for a second there. And then yeah, the fan will go on and off as required. But what I found in my use of it over the past couple of weeks is that generally if it's sort of staying on and it's not at a high power and I've generally been having it around the 25% mark, something like that, then either the fan is not kicking in or at least it's sort of coming in and out but not necessarily at full speed though. So that is a sort of little tour of the actual device itself. One thing that I talked about the pros and cons, one thing that is maybe could have been added into this as just the sort of base device is if it had had a quarter 20, so thinking about the non-light, leto light here, it has got a quarter 20 in the light itself. This one doesn't have any mounting points in the actual physical light. For that, you do need to use the enclosure. Now the enclosure does come with it though, so it's not like it's something additional and this is what that looks like. So we've got this cage here and what happens is you just basically slot this in from the back. As you slot it in from the back, there is this door on the other side there that folds round. You can see these couple of rubber feet here. Those basically just hold the light in place. It's got a little catch here. There's a really satisfying sort of clonk as it clicks into place. And one thing I like about this is it feels reassuringly solid. It's not going to inadvertently come out. You can't accidentally click that but at the same time, it is very easy to open as well. So both secure but easy access rather than some fiddly screws or anything like that. Now, once it is in this cage though, then you've got a whole host of mounting options. So first of all, you'll see that on the bottom you've got a quarter 20, so there is how you would mount it. Then you've also got a mounting here. So if you want to attach it to the top of your camera, for example, so a cold shoe or whatever, then you can attach it with this and then you'll see that there are basically three further cold shoe mountings on the top and the side. So here is where if you did have it on top of your camera, then you could attach all of your other accessories or things like that that you wanted to mount. What else you could do with this though is you could actually sort of mount multiple lights together. So if you've got multiple units and in fact, they also show that as a sort of demo on their website here, you can see sort of magnetically clipping them but also over to here, where am I, I'm on the wrong page part of their page here, down here somewhere. There is a little clip. I'm just scrolling through their page. There is a clip of them basically daisy chaining them together. So that is up here somewhere. I've probably just lost it. By the way, if you are completely new to the channel, my channel is called Take One Tech because I make all of my videos in one take with no edits and what that also means is that sometimes I have to scroll like this to find the thing that I was going to show you. Where is it? There we go. That's what I was looking for. It is like that. So there you can see a bank of them linked together. I should also say that you can use their mobile app with these lights and I'll do a separate video all about the mobile app. But what that allows you to do is control, as you can see in that little demo there, multiple lights at the same time. So you can set up scenes, click between them or control multiple lights at the same time. But anyway, I digress. That is just one of the other ways that you might want to use these cold shoe mounts to actually mount multiple lights together. Another mounting method though is if we look at the little door on the back here, actually the entire back of that here is actually magnetic. And what that means is that you can then obviously just mount that by just clamping it to anything metal. I will say that the magnet is really strong in this. I've used lights that I've got magnets in before. In fact, this one that I've got right in front of me, the Nunlite, this has technically got magnets, but it feels really loose. It's easy to sort of come off. And I have had instances where I've either just tapped them and they've fallen off or they've fallen off of their own accord seemingly. Whereas this one feels like really solid. You have to pull on it to get it off. So it's a really strong magnet. So great for another little mounting option there. So that's that it in terms of this cage then. But speaking of magnets, that's where this accessory pack comes in. If you buy there what they call the combo pack. And this consists of basically three additional parts. The first part is that although I mentioned that it has got diffusion on it, if you want a bit more diffusion, then there is this diffusion plate. And you can see in the corner of that there are those four little silver things. Well, those are just magnets corresponding to the four magnets on the corner of the light itself. And this just clips on with a very satisfying clunk as well. And that as well is not gonna go anywhere. Those are really strong magnets. In fact, it's actually hard to just sort of pull it off with your fingers. You're actually better to kind of slide it down to take it off. So yeah, that is not going anywhere. Next is the grid. Now a grid, the purpose of the grid is that it lets light through in one direction. But as you turn it, you can see how it's basically just blocking out your view of me, fortunately for you this time. But that does the same thing with the light. It basically directs the light out in one direction or more or less. And so this thing as well just clips right onto the front. So this is the same thing as I have, for example, here on my main key light, I've got a grid on the front of there, which means that the light is just directed towards me and not spilling out over the back wall. So we've got that exact same thing on here. Next up then, we've got these barn doors. And these also just fit on in exactly the same way. So the fittings, by the way, are all plastic. So this is hard plastic here and this one as well, as is the frame for the barn doors. So this is also plastic and just clips onto the front. The barn doors themselves are aluminum or aluminum, depending on where you are. And let me just get the logo the right way around. There we go. And yeah, it just works really well. There is numbers on these little doors as well because you do need to close them in the right order. So we've got one, two, three, and four because they're slightly different depths of hinges so they all stack nicely. But once those are all together, then you can see the form factor. And like I say, even with all those accessories on, okay, it makes it now a little bit bigger than a set of sticky notes, but not that much bigger and certainly something that's easy to throw into a camera bag and is really, really versatile light. So with that said, let's take a look at some of the features of the light itself. And I'm going to do something that's probably not necessarily recommended, but what I'm doing is I'm just gonna stand it on the barn doors to be able to show you these menus. So the way that this works is you've got this style here, which is for actually basically cycling through the menus and this one for actually changing the settings. So here you can see that we're on CCT mode at the moment and probably you might not be able to make out that, but that says 0%. Pressing this button will go to a couple of presets. So press it once, it's gonna go to 50% and press it again. It'll go to 100, but you can just turn this dial, incrementing by 1% at a time. Currently, we're adjusting the brightness there, of course. If I cycle through on this one and turn this one, you can see how it's going through the different menu options. So next down is the actual temperature of this particular light. So it goes from 2,500 Kelvin all the way up to 10,000. So 2,500 being sort of more warm light there, all the way up to 10,000 being that sort of ultra, more sort of bluey light. I tend to have my lights in the studio set at more like about 5,600, something like that, 5,400. There we go. Then you've also got the gamma, sorry, the green and magenta adjustment going down from minus 10 to plus 10. And then the other thing that you've got here is if I just press this button, it's going to cycle through the different lighting types. So again, at the moment, we're on CCT mode, but if I press it, then it will go to HSI mode. And here we can change, again, the dimming of it so we can change the brightness there. But now we can go to the hue. So this is pretty typical that you'll see on these types of lights obviously at the moment as well. So nothing particularly new here, but I can go through the full sort of 360 degrees here of the color spectrum. I can just press this and it'll go to some preset. So there we're at 360, so red. Then 120, 240, and then back to 360, so we can just sort of do those quick cycles through things and then make finer adjustments with the dial. And next up, we've got the saturation. So the next one down is going to be that color saturation at whatever setting we've set it to. We can then go to the next one, which is the RGB mode. So here is where you've got the RGB and the brightness, the sort of dimming there as well. So there's where you can just set a percentage for the red, green and blue. Tapping again, it's gonna go to the effects. So these are similar effects that you may see on other lights of this type as well. So we've got things like the hue pulse, so going through different colors. We can go through to, if I cycle through these, sorry, there we go, disco, firework effect, hue loop. Oh, it's cause I've gone right to the end, the flash. I'm trying to read these from a distance as well. CCT flash, welder, explosion, all of those same kind of things that lighten it, lightning. So these are all those kind of effects. And then you've got all the parameters associated with those. So the dimming, the speed and so on. Next up though is one that is a little bit unique to this, which is what they call music mode. Now what you'll see for this is that basically it is reacting to the sound. Now I'm not likely to have a light going in time to the beat of my music, which wouldn't be pretty great. However, if this is something that you do want to have, a light that does move in time with music, then you've got this in here because it has got a built-in microphone that's basically detecting the audio and then the light is adjusting or pulsing in relation to that. And there are some controls here in terms of different color and things like that that you want it to cycle through. So you can have it cycling through different colors and various different things like that. Next up then on the menu is the language. So English or Chinese or some other options in there as well. And then you've got the Bluetooth. So it does pair with the app over Bluetooth. So you can reset that from in here. And then you have got the firmware version listed on there as well. Incidentally, firmware updates are done via the app. So if you download the app, then you'll just be able to compare it with Bluetooth and then update via that. That's how I updated to the latest firmware version. That works really well. There's no sometimes with certain lights. I mean, this one in particular, for example, if I want to update the firmware on that, I need to just plug in a USB stick and update it that way and transfer something to the stick and then transfer it to the light. So to be able to just update it directly from the mobile app is another great little feature. Now I've talked about this combo pack. Let's take a look, shall we, at the different models that are available because actually there are a couple. So if we come over here, I'm looking specifically here at the M20C combo. So this is the color variant and it also then has the combo pack. So we can see here, we've got this, the barn doors and things like that that we've just looked at. You can buy this without the combo pack and the M20C on its own. Of course it comes with the cage though because that is integral to the way that you mount it. That is $130, $140, $139 at the moment on Amazon versus the combo pack, which is basically an extra $30. But to be honest with you, I'd highly recommend going with the combo pack just because of obviously the extra versatility that you get in the control of the light. If you don't need color and you are just looking for a white light, then basically the M20 is basically the white variant. So the C obviously denoting color. So the M20 on its own without the RGB capability. And this is also available as either the standard light or you can get it with the combo pack. Incidentally, I should say also in the box, you do get the USB-C cable, it's USB-C to USB-A. So if you want the USB-C to C, you would need to get that yourself. And then it does also come with this little carry bag that you can put it in. However, I'll likely just be putting this in some sort of foam carrier directly into the camera bag itself or more likely for the other two, they'll be just permanently positioned here in the studio. So I hope that's sort of helped you with getting a bit of a better understanding about that, this light. And it is really something that has exceeded my expectations. As I say, it was something that I was intending to buy anyway. This was sent to me for a review. And as I mentioned right at the beginning, it certainly actually made me think that, yeah, I don't just want to add another one, but likely another three or four maybe to the mix as well, because it is a really compelling light, really versatile. And I can highly recommend it if you are in the market for a light of this sort. I hope you've found that useful. If you have, then don't forget to subscribe to the channel, more reviews like this coming along. 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