Be sure to watch the lighting examples at 5:54! Wanted to make sure you guys could get a feel for what this light could do. Numbers are helpful but results are better!
THANK YOU. I see people on here speaking about their $300 lights. This is a competitor with the Arri Skypanel, so it's exactly as you said. If you're complaining about the price for such a great light, this light isn't for you.
The P60C, not available at the time this video was made, is in my opinion and even bigger bang for the buck for indie filmmakers. The amount of colored light it puts out in a dark location is incredible. Just did a shoot in a warehouse with a HUGE metal staircase going up a wall, and I put this light under the stairs, behind clutter, and we blasted a high output fog machine from under the stairs upward as well. It is an incredibly intense and dramatic shot that would could not have done otherwise. The very saturated color was needed and the P60C provided it. I also used it to light a corner of a cabin interior. It also "revealed" a Freddy Kruger character (red where Freddy is discovered, and wherever he moves to). It does any shade of while light, any color, in any saturation, and provides soft light (though not incredibly soft, but great for many situations) especially with it's provided softbox. At $350 the P60C is a STEAL, especially for those of us who are not buying $1,700 lights every couple months. The P60C will likely fill your needs perfectly at a fraction of the cost.
before even watching the video i can reply with YES!!!! I got mine 2 weeks ago and just freaked out how cool that thing is! In 20 years of photography and 2 years into filmmaking, I can only remember being that happy for a light, when I bought my Broncolor studio equipment. That light is simply Fabulous and so convenient (and no, I'm not sponsored, just super excited!)
hows the colour brightness in the average household room with windows up on sunny day? Interested in this for colour washes filming in industrial factories?
I had to replay that section three times before realizing that what he is saying doesn’t match the table info. Caleb posts great videos but the fact that he didn’t acknowledge this comment tells me he just posts and moves on.
This is incredible. Looking at the way the color is filled into the background, I can see why you would use it for your thumbnails. You'll save so much time in post! I'd really like to have one, someday, once my bank account agrees with that need...
Not sure what's better: the light panel itself or the fact I just discovered your channel. I appreciate the densely packed no fluff straight to the point approach. Keep it up!
Wow, now THAT's a LED light!! Holy smokes, that bad boy is incredible! I do have to say though, I'm very happy with my Switti 2 LED set w/stands that I picked up a few months back. Under $300, with a great remote, and variable brightness/temp. Proper lighting is a must.
Aputure finally has these back on sale as of today 12/24/20 on their site, everywhere else still has them backordered. Just picked one up, get them while you can everybody!!
Great review! Every time I see a review for this light I cannot wait to get one. Moving from all post to include production now and have ordered 2 Aputure LS300X, 4 MC's 2 AL-F7's and now 2 Nova P300c Panel lights. I am pretty sure I can handle most anything I need from this set-up! I guess I am buried in the Aputure ecosystem!
So great to see Aputure devote their manufacturing resources to yet another new model to give to influencers when the last 3 invoices I've had with their products it takes over 2 months to get in stock and ship. As awesome as their lights are (and the P300c looks to be no exception) I'm getting a little tired of their business model.
I wonder why no one is talking about / comparing this light to the DMG Rosco models , the SL1 Mix and the Mini Mix. I use these and they are freaking awesome and also adapt to on location shoots, they can be literally handheld, feature all the Rosco filters obviously. It’s no wonder why Rosco bought this small French company, they make good lighting fixtures. Having experience the DMG Rosco, I would love to see how this one compares for the price. Great video nonetheless
Great coverage of this light! I had no idea you could match colors using your phone camera, that’s pretty awesome. The one downside I see is that the saturation doesn’t go to 200% so I guess I’ll have to keep looking 😅
Great post as always. But as some already mentioned, there are something wrong with the numbers in your comparison table. 300D MII measures 45.000 LUX at 1 meter with the hyper reflector and around 11.000 bare bulb at 1 meter. A downside with 300D MII is the difference in kelvin. I have three and two of them are closer to each other than the third one which actually only measures around 4.700 kelvin. The other two around 5.200 kelvin. So not close to 5.500 and huge problem when in need of the three all together. I'm thinking the Nova is worth the extra bucks due to all the RGB settings it has.
If you are using the light under about 40% the fans may not need to kick on at all, but ootb they are on constantly and it's up to you to change that in the settings. You DEFINITELY won't need to have this light at 100% most of the time. It's bright!
looks good but when you add up everything that goes with the light i.e. softbox with grid,battery pack,4 batteries, it's going to add up to 4000 quick, Nanlite makes some good tube rgb lights 4 1200
Any idea about use this light instead of green screen panel? It seems with the right set up the light is a very precise also in s white wall , any experience of that ?
Hi Caleb, in regards to your luminance chart @5:00, the Aputure website lists the 300D MK2 as 11,000 lux without the reflector and 45,000 lux with the reflector. Not sure where you got 1,190 lux from.
You should compare it with Lightpanels, I am curious about results. I think this was made to compete with the Lightpanel Gemini 2x1 a 1x1. Those are even more expensive and similar in design and features.
Really great content as ever! And this light is out of this world, I just wish two things: 1)I still had an extra kidney as I sold my other one to buy a camera. 2) I had a bigger room where I could use this 😂 fantastic really!
Nice light for sure when compared to an ARRI or other higher priced equivalent unit, and especially to lower-end units because of it's feature set. If you are making enough income on video/photo projects to justify this purchase only the purchaser will know if it fits in their business plan. Now if I was a rental house, this might be a very good choice as an asset to rent to out to smaller productions.
Thank you for an awesome review! This light may just be a game-changer for mid-budget video productions. We're a recording studio and have started a live/stream concert series. These lights could replace all of our cheap stage lights that look horrible on camera. Our only concern is the fan noise since we'll be recording live instruments and there may be a ton of mics around. Would you recommend this light for our purposes or is it too loud? Thanks again Kaleb!
I really want to see Aputure put this technology into a modular tube light system like the Came-TV Andromedas. I love the technology, but for my purposes, the output doesn't justify the form factor. I'd rather have some tubes that I could combine for a lot of output when the need arises.
Yes this light seems to meet the needs for my studio step up, We are shooting video my exercise style and well and talking head videos and love color effects it could create. Bought a Boling PI after watching one of your videos but has limitations. Thank you for the informative video. Peace
Thanks for the video! I wish aputure would make something in the $500 range in between the nova and the mc. I have two 300x's and two mc's. I find the mc's output is just not enough for me and I hesitate to buy more of them to try and get more output.
I'd be very interested in a P150c if they make one, hopefully it would be more affordable, and as a hobbyist I just don't need the raw power of the 300c.
I’m trying to make a good economical decision, the bulk of my work will be interviews, two people at a time, a host and a few guest. Plans are to shoot tv projects and internet content also. I’m thinking about starting with this light or a simple Aputure 120Dii, what do you suggest? Buy this light first, or purchase this after the projects began to grow?
that background colors thing really makes me want this could you upload something too Instagram showing how much space of colour it gives you at full output
hows the colour brightness in the average household room with windows up on sunny day? Interested in this for colour washes filming in industrial factories?
Great video. The price is fair for all that it does. Any chance of doing a quick sound text for us? Are you familiar with rotolight... have you ever used any of them? they have a few great lights that I don't see any content creators using. I have a couple. I really like them.
Hey Caleb. When you’re illuminating your background are you using something like a savage background paper?? If so are you illuminating white paper or something like an 18% studio grey paper? What’s best in your opinion for the greatest reflection+color accuracy?
Hi Cal, would you be so kind, as always, to give us your point of view of the new R5 , I mean whenever you can handle one and try it. Thanks , have a nice one.
I've just baught one today and I can't wait to burn the eyes of my talents 🤣🤣🤣 They already can't stand a little Godox spot with a softbox on, they will catch fire instantly at 50% power with this one 😅
not everything is made from cheap plastic & made in a sweatshop in china , if you want quality you need to pay for it , & not everyone has a budget of 99cents ... the Rotolight Titan .. is the ultimate light in this field .. & yes it costs more but its on another level .
When will you implement USB spec compliant USB-C charging? The power design you selected is non-standard. You can't use a standard USB-C cable to charge your light. I really really wanted to like your product. But I had to return it after finding out it's shortcomings with charging.
Thanks for the awesome review. I wonder if you would recommend this light as ceiling lights for a cyc studio?
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I know the Design is inferior but for that price you can get two 400w Jinbei efp400 panels ... personally that was why i chose Jinbei ... if i had the money i would of course take the aputure ... but my goas is always owning 2-4 lights of the same type, otherwise the lighting options are not enough ... i hope i have the money for rgbww light to have control over the magenta and green tint but other than that i am very happy with bicolor jinbei
I'm love with this lights but they are still not affordable for tiny budgets. I would like Aputure will release a similar product with the same specs but a .."P300c divided by 2 version"....a P150C indeed.
@@himanshusaini1261 i thought so at first but there's different colors in the banding, it could be the RGB wavelength from the light, or how the camera sensor perceives that wavelength
Be sure to watch the lighting examples at 5:54! Wanted to make sure you guys could get a feel for what this light could do. Numbers are helpful but results are better!
The light experiments is what really sold it for me. The thing looks amazing. Be honest, do you cuddle with it at night?
#iwould
Your camera can't handle the color information
What do you say about starting with flexible led panels instead this, like FALCON EYES RX-836 for example?
This light was made for people looking to get an Arri Skypanel, if you're complaining about the price, you probably aren't one of those people.
Even the FX settings are copied from the skypanel!
THANK YOU. I see people on here speaking about their $300 lights. This is a competitor with the Arri Skypanel, so it's exactly as you said. If you're complaining about the price for such a great light, this light isn't for you.
Great video, Caleb! The backdrop application looks great on your walls. An advantage of having neutral walls in your studio! 😜
Is it possible to do it with a backdrop
Yes
The nova is my favorite light of the year - it redefines the standard of what you should get for $1500+ in lighting.
The P60C, not available at the time this video was made, is in my opinion and even bigger bang for the buck for indie filmmakers. The amount of colored light it puts out in a dark location is incredible. Just did a shoot in a warehouse with a HUGE metal staircase going up a wall, and I put this light under the stairs, behind clutter, and we blasted a high output fog machine from under the stairs upward as well. It is an incredibly intense and dramatic shot that would could not have done otherwise. The very saturated color was needed and the P60C provided it. I also used it to light a corner of a cabin interior. It also "revealed" a Freddy Kruger character (red where Freddy is discovered, and wherever he moves to). It does any shade of while light, any color, in any saturation, and provides soft light (though not incredibly soft, but great for many situations) especially with it's provided softbox. At $350 the P60C is a STEAL, especially for those of us who are not buying $1,700 lights every couple months. The P60C will likely fill your needs perfectly at a fraction of the cost.
before even watching the video i can reply with YES!!!! I got mine 2 weeks ago and just freaked out how cool that thing is! In 20 years of photography and 2 years into filmmaking, I can only remember being that happy for a light, when I bought my Broncolor studio equipment. That light is simply Fabulous and so convenient (and no, I'm not sponsored, just super excited!)
hows the colour brightness in the average household room with windows up on sunny day? Interested in this for colour washes filming in industrial factories?
Agree totally! It’s a great piece of kit! A pretty sturdy C-Stand is however recommended! 👍
@5:17 Did you leave off a 0 in the table for the 300DII?
I was just thinking the same thing.
Exactly the same man
I had to replay that section three times before realizing that what he is saying doesn’t match the table info. Caleb posts great videos but the fact that he didn’t acknowledge this comment tells me he just posts and moves on.
This is incredible. Looking at the way the color is filled into the background, I can see why you would use it for your thumbnails. You'll save so much time in post! I'd really like to have one, someday, once my bank account agrees with that need...
Not sure what's better: the light panel itself or the fact I just discovered your channel. I appreciate the densely packed no fluff straight to the point approach. Keep it up!
7:46, this is perfect
Man the production on this video was next level good Caleb for real. Excellent work man
He’s the Lew of “Unboxing” but with all the gems on photography/ videography
@dslr video shooter at 1.04 you said.... alternitives lights compare with the nova who are cheaper.... i didnt hear one
7:44 Caleb Acapella coming soon
Wow, now THAT's a LED light!! Holy smokes, that bad boy is incredible! I do have to say though, I'm very happy with my Switti 2 LED set w/stands that I picked up a few months back. Under $300, with a great remote, and variable brightness/temp. Proper lighting is a must.
Aputure finally has these back on sale as of today 12/24/20 on their site, everywhere else still has them backordered. Just picked one up, get them while you can everybody!!
Awesome video Caleb. Vwery helpful. Love the way you use it as a backdrop
Great review! Every time I see a review for this light I cannot wait to get one. Moving from all post to include production now and have ordered 2 Aputure LS300X, 4 MC's 2 AL-F7's and now 2 Nova P300c Panel lights. I am pretty sure I can handle most anything I need from this set-up! I guess I am buried in the Aputure ecosystem!
oh my the backdrop color options looks dope! so versatile! can't wait to see it more on your thumbnails and videos caleb! 👌🏻
The light I *should* have ordered.
So great to see Aputure devote their manufacturing resources to yet another new model to give to influencers when the last 3 invoices I've had with their products it takes over 2 months to get in stock and ship. As awesome as their lights are (and the P300c looks to be no exception) I'm getting a little tired of their business model.
I am certainly not an influencer but got my Nova 300c kit delivered on July 31 here in Sweden. It’s a beast! 😎👍
I wonder why no one is talking about / comparing this light to the DMG Rosco models , the SL1 Mix and the Mini Mix. I use these and they are freaking awesome and also adapt to on location shoots, they can be literally handheld, feature all the Rosco filters obviously. It’s no wonder why Rosco bought this small French company, they make good lighting fixtures. Having experience the DMG Rosco, I would love to see how this one compares for the price. Great video nonetheless
Great coverage of this light! I had no idea you could match colors using your phone camera, that’s pretty awesome.
The one downside I see is that the saturation doesn’t go to 200% so I guess I’ll have to keep looking 😅
used as background light ... is freaking awesome ... I thought it was a colored paper background, you can use it as green screen
That's exactly what I was thinking. No need for separate Green screen setup :)
@@bhavikcreates I think is possible but I would like to be shure about this
Great post as always. But as some already mentioned, there are something wrong with the numbers in your comparison table.
300D MII measures 45.000 LUX at 1 meter with the hyper reflector and around 11.000 bare bulb at 1 meter.
A downside with 300D MII is the difference in kelvin. I have three and two of them are closer to each other than the third one which actually only measures around 4.700 kelvin. The other two around 5.200 kelvin. So not close to 5.500 and huge problem when in need of the three all together.
I'm thinking the Nova is worth the extra bucks due to all the RGB settings it has.
If you are using the light under about 40% the fans may not need to kick on at all, but ootb they are on constantly and it's up to you to change that in the settings. You DEFINITELY won't need to have this light at 100% most of the time. It's bright!
looks good but when you add up everything that goes with the light i.e. softbox with grid,battery pack,4 batteries, it's going to add up to 4000 quick, Nanlite makes some good tube rgb lights 4 1200
Love it. Mine came last night. And must say lost some sleep playing with it. Trying to find the soft box in stock.
Really basic question, but when do you use this type of light vs the aputure 300d? Are they used interchangeably, or does each have a specific use?
The examples when you use it to flood the background are insane! Custom back drops on the fly
Caleb, would this be useful for lighting a very precise green screen? No reviewer seems to have discussed that yet.
same question here...
Any idea about use this light instead of green screen panel? It seems with the right set up the light is a very precise also in s white wall , any experience of that ?
I just wondering if a watercoolingsystem (option) wouldn´t do the job much more quite :)
What material is behind you when you are changing the colors? Is it a white backdrop?
Getting this for sure, Been waiting for it to come out
I appreciate the honesty!! I also believe it is priced well below it’s real world output.
I have to be careful. Gear acquisition syndrome can become a very real problem with my channel if I start buying this stuff. Great video! Thanks
As a photographer i say I love this!
Excellent product demo, thank you.
Hi Caleb, in regards to your luminance chart @5:00, the Aputure website lists the 300D MK2 as 11,000 lux without the reflector and 45,000 lux with the reflector. Not sure where you got 1,190 lux from.
Ok 7:43 that blew my mind
5:15 Um Caleb I think maybe you were off by a factor of 10 on that 300d mkii number?
Great review, I love mine. In HSI mode the colours look about twice as bright as a litepanels gemini 2x1 in the same mode. Super useful!
Any tips on how to get the best solid color background like you had in your demonstration? I'd appreciate it. Great video.
You should compare it with Lightpanels, I am curious about results. I think this was made to compete with the Lightpanel Gemini 2x1 a 1x1. Those are even more expensive and similar in design and features.
those background uses are amazing. So clever
Really great content as ever! And this light is out of this world, I just wish two things: 1)I still had an extra kidney as I sold my other one to buy a camera. 2) I had a bigger room where I could use this 😂 fantastic really!
Nice light for sure when compared to an ARRI or other higher priced equivalent unit, and especially to lower-end units because of it's feature set. If you are making enough income on video/photo projects to justify this purchase only the purchaser will know if it fits in their business plan. Now if I was a rental house, this might be a very good choice as an asset to rent to out to smaller productions.
Love from india🇮🇳
Oh wow, I would love that but it’s more expensive than all my Pixapro lights put together - maybe one day but not just yet perhaps
Thank you for the review. It literally helped me in making my decision :-)
Thank you for an awesome review! This light may just be a game-changer for mid-budget video productions. We're a recording studio and have started a live/stream concert series. These lights could replace all of our cheap stage lights that look horrible on camera. Our only concern is the fan noise since we'll be recording live instruments and there may be a ton of mics around. Would you recommend this light for our purposes or is it too loud? Thanks again Kaleb!
I really want to see Aputure put this technology into a modular tube light system like the Came-TV Andromedas. I love the technology, but for my purposes, the output doesn't justify the form factor. I'd rather have some tubes that I could combine for a lot of output when the need arises.
And look what happened last week - you finally got what you want! 😂
@@plumberparts Dude you have no idea. I freaked out when I saw. Definitely getting a pair.
Yes this light seems to meet the needs for my studio step up, We are shooting video my exercise style and well and talking head videos and love color effects it could create. Bought a Boling PI after watching one of your videos but has limitations. Thank you for the informative video. Peace
There's an error on LUX for 300DMII. I guess this adds to your comments ha
I would love an academy video on using this light!
Thanks for the video! I wish aputure would make something in the $500 range in between the nova and the mc. I have two 300x's and two mc's. I find the mc's output is just not enough for me and I hesitate to buy more of them to try and get more output.
YES! They need to make an RGB version of their F7 light.
They do now.
Great vids as always
Wow a few of these and you don't really need any other lights !! Grabbing a few to use on a small interview set
I'd be very interested in a P150c if they make one, hopefully it would be more affordable, and as a hobbyist I just don't need the raw power of the 300c.
I don’t need this light. But I want this light.
I’m trying to make a good economical decision, the bulk of my work will be interviews, two people at a time, a host and a few guest. Plans are to shoot tv projects and internet content also. I’m thinking about starting with this light or a simple Aputure 120Dii, what do you suggest? Buy this light first, or purchase this after the projects began to grow?
that background colors thing really makes me want this could you upload something too Instagram showing how much space of colour it gives you at full output
Not sure if it’s worth the $1,700 but I definitely want it 😂
could i use this to lite up a 12ft green screen?
Great video. I'm hoping that you put out an A7S III tutorial in the near future.
4:57 it appears that you made a typo with the output of the 300d.
What was the correct measurement?
I continue to research this light - and at 23 lbs....what is the best stand for the money that could carry this with confidence?
I saw a Matthews baby stand with a 50ish pound capacity for like $230
hows the colour brightness in the average household room with windows up on sunny day? Interested in this for colour washes filming in industrial factories?
Incredible light. What color are your walls? (please be more specific than "gray"). Thank you.
Great video. The price is fair for all that it does. Any chance of doing a quick sound text for us? Are you familiar with rotolight... have you ever used any of them? they have a few great lights that I don't see any content creators using. I have a couple. I really like them.
The video ended and I couldn't see any of the alternatives in a budget you mentioned at the beginning :(
Hey Caleb. When you’re illuminating your background are you using something like a savage background paper?? If so are you illuminating white paper or something like an 18% studio grey paper? What’s best in your opinion for the greatest reflection+color accuracy?
Hi Cal, would you be so kind, as always, to give us your point of view of the new R5 , I mean whenever you can handle one and try it. Thanks , have a nice one.
Ooo I wanted to see how the candle and fireworks look
I've just baught one today and I can't wait to burn the eyes of my talents 🤣🤣🤣
They already can't stand a little Godox spot with a softbox on, they will catch fire instantly at 50% power with this one 😅
i want this so badly
Can you do a test with 17 of the Aputure MCs and put it head to head with the Nova? Just for kicks and giggles?
Amazing ligth , I loved it ...
not everything is made from cheap plastic & made in a sweatshop in china , if you want quality you need to pay for it , & not everyone has a budget of 99cents ... the Rotolight Titan .. is the ultimate light in this field .. & yes it costs more but its on another level .
Thank you for the video.
Wow ! It looks amazing as a background light! Were you using a white background for your example??
Grey actually! Would be even easier to use a white background with less light output.
Is there a typo at 5:18 for the output of the 300D MK 2?
Crazy to think you can get 19 Aputure MC’s or this 🤯🤯
It would be great to rent, I'll wait on the Godox version until I get the money up.
Really wish I could afford this light.
Looks like a great light for Unreal Engine Virtual Production!!
When will you implement USB spec compliant USB-C charging? The power design you selected is non-standard. You can't use a standard USB-C cable to charge your light. I really really wanted to like your product. But I had to return it after finding out it's shortcomings with charging.
This light in combination with 300x, great stuff, btw only 49.1 with 2000K?
Lil' late to the party but thoughts on the Elation KL Panel compared to this one? Same price range, but better color mixing.
Thanks for the awesome review. I wonder if you would recommend this light as ceiling lights for a cyc studio?
I know the Design is inferior but for that price you can get two 400w Jinbei efp400 panels ... personally that was why i chose Jinbei ... if i had the money i would of course take the aputure ... but my goas is always owning 2-4 lights of the same type, otherwise the lighting options are not enough ... i hope i have the money for rgbww light to have control over the magenta and green tint but other than that i am very happy with bicolor jinbei
Not happening this year... but that light looks awesome.
It's awesome!!!
Do a comparison video between the aputure nova vs dracast palette. Please.
Yes, yes it is!
I'm love with this lights but they are still not affordable for tiny budgets. I would like Aputure will release a similar product with the same specs but a .."P300c divided by 2 version"....a P150C indeed.
Yep, I'm enjoying mine :)
This looks equivalent to 5 Amaran P60c in both price and power. BTW, could you remove the diffuser so we can see the LEDs inside?
7:45 i noticed some color banding in the bottom left frame, is this an issue with the light or the camera?
might be compression
@@himanshusaini1261 i thought so at first but there's different colors in the banding, it could be the RGB wavelength from the light, or how the camera sensor perceives that wavelength
When my wife asks, you made me buy it haha