 What is up? My name is Rubidium. Welcome to the Crimson Engine. Today we are testing two different 2x1 LED panels against one another. The first is the industry store, the RE SkyPanel S60 and The other is the Alupo SuperPanel 60. They're the same basic size. They both are able to plug into house power So you don't need a specific generator or two-phase power to run them They both do RGB. The big difference between them is that The RE SkyPanel is the list price is like over 6,000 but you can get them for 5,800 The Lupo on the other hand is a $2,600 light and it does a lot of the things that the SkyPanel does for a fraction of the cost What are the differences between these two lights? I would say that the most significant difference between these two lights is that the SkyPanel You know came out Five or six years ago went on to absolutely dominate the industry become probably the most used light on set But the technology behind it the type of LEDs the controllers the ballasts are all Five or six, maybe even seven year old technology. Whereas the Lupo SuperPanel is a brand new Light that is just being released. So it's obviously taken inspiration from the S60 to try and deliver as much as this does in a smaller cheaper lighter package As you can see the SkyPanel has two ballasts in this large ballast box. It can you can take it off the The light itself and have it on the stand or on the floor It has very fine controls up here. It has a little bit of fan noise and the unit itself is Around 40 45 pounds depending on what yoke you have and how you set it up. So If I take this out it takes, you know a larger person to hold It's not something that you could easily rig overhead and have down because of its weight It's Really well made. It's incredibly Resilient, I mean the the time has tested these lights and found them to last a really long time But it does limit how you can use this light where you can put it How you can light things with it because like I said putting them overhead is putting suspending 4550 pounds. You really need a pretty significant rig The Lupo on the other hand Loop on the other hand I can hold with one arm. It's less than 20 pounds It's a very easy to Manipulate easy to light overhead. It has a similar yoke You don't need a really beefy light stand to put it on it has two ballasts that can be attached To the unit itself They have this kind of hydra light cable that comes out and plugs into one AC the fans on it are a lot quieter probably the biggest difference for Location filmmakers is that both of these ballasts can be replaced by a V-Map battery these Panels screw off you put a V-Map battery plate that the ball so sells and you can run this thing For a pretty long time without cables at all Remotely that is a lot harder to do with a sky panel. In fact, it's an impossible to do with the sky panel You need a different like block battery that weighs even more than the ballast on the ground and then you have You know brings a whole bunch of different issues so weight-wise I feel like the Lupo has a clear advantage Time will tell whether or not these last as long as the sky panels. They're made out of plastic not out of aluminium but the sky panel does need all that extra steel to hold up the weight of it and deal with the heat of it Whereas there's the Lupo with newer LEDs cooler LEDs is able to give a comparable Light with much less weight much less heat much less noise. So the real key question is how bright are these lights? So when we went and metered these at one meter or three feet, this is what we found the sky panel and super panel are both around the same brightness at 5600 at 3200 you get a little more brightness Maybe about 20% more brightness out of the Lupo super panel when you move into the Pure colors you're getting about twice the brightness out of the sky panel. So 14 versus 800 these are all in Lux 3100 versus 1800 and 30 versus 17 It's interesting to see how the pure red is about half the brightness in both the panels of the other two colors I guess that's to do with How difficult it is to make red LEDs? however, when you add the Super panel 60 duo color, which is not RGB to this suddenly you get a much more directed source But much much brighter five times brighter 33,000 lux and it remains about the same brightness at 3200 both these allow units allow you to control it with DMX Both in and out. I didn't test that. It's not really my area of expertise And I think most independent filmmakers will be just using the units piecemeal back when I reviewed the red helium 4k versus the C 200 what I found was that 90% of the features of the red helium Maybe except for resolution and maybe half a stop of dynamic range are in the C 200 raw It's a lot easier a camera to use the C 200 and the red was five or six times the price now You're unlikely to go out and buy five C 200 instead of buying a red, but that's not quite true of lights It's incredibly useful to have more than less lights So to be able to buy two of these for the price of one of the RS sky panels is You know for me not even a question for an independent filmmaker You're able to do far more setups you have far more light with two lighter smaller Potentially battery-powered lights than you are with one brighter Single source our key light here today is the other Lupo Super panel 60. It is a dual color Not an RGB and it is even less. It's maybe $1,800 Retail now. It's also a big soft source, but it is in much much brighter than both of these lights We needed it at 1 meter daylight at 30,000 lux So you can for the price of this one light get an RGB light for when you need color effects and a Super bright 2x1 Source for the same price as the sky panel. So you can basically get two lights That outperform any individual feature of the sky panel for the same price as the sky panel That's not to say the sky panel is a bad light It's definitely proven itself as an industry standard and it's what a lot of people expect to see on set But we've had this conversation a lot on this channel hire a camera or a lens or a light because that's what the client expects is really You know leaving a lot of money on the table and kind of taking the easy way out my personal preference is to Get the best tool for the job at the lowest price and then educate your client or your producer or your People about why this is better Why the choice you've made is the best for the job don't leave don't leave money on the table. Don't feel pressured into Talking about how beautiful the emperor's clothes are if you feel like you have a better way So that is my look at the Irish sky panel as 60 versus the Lupo super panel 60 We're here at Maccom in Van Nuys in the Los Angeles area They have both of these units available to rent and to buy if you're in this area And you're curious about one of these lights definitely click the link in the description and come and check them out Thank you very much for Maccom for letting us film in their showroom. I'll be back next week We're at NAB checking at everything that's coming out in LED cameras lenses filters and focus technology So I'll also be updating kind of stories on Instagram. So check that out and I'll see you next time