GVM 560 LED Video Light - Features and Review
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Check it out here: amzn.to/2B15LXm
The GVM 560 is a panel-style LED photo/video light that's under $100 and for the price, it's pretty not-bad. App control, battery power, adjustable color temp, and dual mounting options for free positioning - plus it's (mostly) metal and not plastic.
My other LEDs:
Neewer 660: amzn.to/2M3g4Aa
FalconEyes F7: amzn.to/2nBICHR
Commlite CM-L50: amzn.to/2ovfQZO
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Loved your review. These should arrive tomorrow for me. Can't wait to use them in my channel.
Excellent review. I appreciate your real world practicality approach.
Just looking for some reviews on lights to replace my current ones. Glad, I found your honest review. Thanks man.
Glad I could help! I got mine on Amazon, but they also sell directly through their site and they sometimes announce sales through their social media (the sales only apply to their site though, not to Amazon). So it might be worth it to double check their Instagram and/or website to see if they have anything going on right now. I know they had a thing on their 3-light kits a few weeks ago.
Good luck!
@@ArtSchoolRehab Thank for the tip. However, I ordered through your Amazon link, wanted you to get credit. Peace.
yo man, keep it up. I've been looking for an in-depth review on these lights for days!
Nice, I'm glad I could help!
Dope review, thanks!
Excellent review, thanks Bud will try this one.
Firstly thanks for this great in-depth review.
Secondly, do you think these lights are suitable for food photography?
good call bro, im gonna buy one. thanks
Great review, great video in general.
BRILLIANT! Thank you!
Great breakdown video bro! Can these light be positively affective for photography as well?
Absolutely - I would guess that most photographers prefer flashes, but I've always preferred using continuous lighting. Like most lights (especially LEDs), you'll just need to be aware of the flicker if you're shooting at a very fast shutter speed, but I think generally these would be excellent for product photography and pretty good for portraits. They're not quite big or bright enough for something like real estate though, you'd need much larger lights to fully flood a room. I'd also say these are generally better run-and-gun lights or space-saving lights as opposed to full on studio lights - I used 750w Tungsten lamps for my video setup initially (like I mentioned near the end of this video), but I switched to these panel LEDs for the new setup, that's what I lit this video and the new BeastGrip review with. I have this and a Neewer panel each mounted to the ceiling and pointing down toward my seat now, it keeps my key lights completely off the ground and out of the way while also using much less power than the big Tungsten lights did.
If you're looking for something you can fit in a backpack, something that's easy to carry around, and/or something that's pretty versatile on a budget, these would be very good paired with some FalconEyes F7 lights and a few of the crab claw clamps with swivel heads like SmallRig has. Bunch of the big batteries and a couple 30K "phone charger" battery packs and that'd be a pretty excellent mobile photo/video lighting kit, and depending on when you bought the stuff you could get a lot of that on sale pretty cheap.
Thanks for the info!
If i hava two lights led , how sincronize betwen has , because i have two but in the App just working one
great, GREAT review! Now I'm more than persuaded to buy them. How would they compare if instead I go for a pair of the GVM RGB 10S?
It's all up to you! But, for me I'd prefer the GVM 560 because of the size and the barn doors, and also because generally white lights are better than colored ones. I do have a small Pockelite Falconeyes F7 that's an RGBW light, I like it a lot because it's very versatile, but it's not good for everything. It important to know that using a colored light produces different results than using a white light with a colored gel over it. In my videos, I use one GVM 560 and one Neewer 660, and I put colored gels over them by clipping them to the barn doors.
Indy Mogul did a great video showing why it's better to use a white light than a colored one, check that out if you have time: ruclips.net/video/5U-F7EhLp7g/видео.html
@@ArtSchoolRehab thanks for the info!
Great video thanks. I need to lights for filming a seamless white backdrop...would these work. Portability and weight are a non issue so am I better off with the Interfits you mentioned ?
I'd say that depends mostly on the size of the room/shots and how hard or soft you want the lighting to be on your subjects. In my case, we have a very small room to shoot in here, meaning my lights pretty much have to be right next to me. So, for example, the bigger and brighter Interfits get really hot over time and it's pretty rough to shoot with them, but I still use them primarily when I'm shooting in a studio location elsewhere. But the LEDs have a great spread, they're easy to use with gels to get different color effects (check out the Beastgrip review I put up to see what that looks like), and they stay cool so I can shoot for extended periods with them. Their only real downside in my case is that they cause pretty hard shadows because they have to be so close, but that's something we can't really change with our current setup at the moment.
If you have the space to set the Interfits up about ten to twelve feet away from the subject, I'd still recommend them. They're extremely bright, though I'll caution you that the ones I have (the oldest model) only have three steps of brightness, there's no fine control. That's because they use three bulbs with three switches, so you turn on either one, two, or all three bulbs on each light and that's your only brightness control. Still, I usually use them in situations where I need the most light possible, so, for me it's not an issue.
Also, though, be careful shooting on white backdrops. My inclination when I started making videos with white backgrounds was to basically crank up the light and exposure to make it as bright as possible, but really I was just losing valuable color data by overexposing. So I guess my best advice isn't about the lights, it's about the background: no matter what lights you use, don't blow out the background if you can help it. You can always color-correct a little to brighten things up, but if you clip your whites too much there's no way to compensate for that back the other way, you could end up just washing everything out. So, depending on the circumstances, the "brightest" light might not even be the best. Although, THAT said, my old "permanent" setup at work used the Interfit tungstens, we left the tripod and light stands set up all the time and never moved them, but we also had a huge room and a really consistent video series that was always shot exactly the same way, so it was okay to do that once we had it all dialed in.
Sorry for the novel, I just wanted to be as complete as I could with my answer. Lighting is one of the many aspects of photo/video work that doesn't really have any definite rights or wrongs, it always just depends on the context of what you're trying to do and what resources you have. The short version is "go for the Interfits if you have a big space and you know how to use lots of light without blowing out your shot (and you don't mind the heat), but go for the LEDs if you don't have that much space or if you want to use colorful gels (or if you don't have AC in the studio).
@@ArtSchoolRehab Really knind of you to take the time to imprt your knowledge. This is excellent advice. We'll be filming in a large studio with plenty of room and ventilation so can easily place the lighting 6-10 feet away. Great advice about lighting the backdrop...in the past we've simply ramped it up to 11 and wondered why it doesn't look better in post production. We'll pay special attention to that in future. I've never used a hair light eith and there might be a way of mounting this for the net shoot. In the past the cheap tungstens I've bought have bulbs and fuses blowing and the lighting controls have broken readily - that said they normally get me through the 3-4 day film shoot. I hadn't heard of Interfit so will look those up on Amazon. If you have any recommendations in this regard I would be grateful. Thanks again. Gary.
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Does the light have loud fan noise?
The light does not have a fan, I don't think any small to mid-sized panel LED does (at least, not the ones intended for photo/video work).