timbutt2 wrote:But the question is how do all the lights compare? So, I'll leave it to others to weigh in.
Tim I think you have to test for your own circumstances.
There's a huge amount of marketing fluff to get through. I find most LED's to be a bit problematic in some way if you're looking for pure beauty or accuracy.
But they are hard to match on energy efficiency and flexibility.
A lot of lessor brands can have a lot of variation lamp to lamp as well.
There are some good resources for checking this if you want. I bought a sekonic C800 color meter and it is designed to measure colour accuracy ESPECIALLY from LED sources. I promise you'll start to feel differently once you start comparing a few spectral emission charts.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/ ... Y8QAvD_BwEBUT, that's not to say LED's can't be really useful. And for lot's of people that are happy to accept the downsides they get great work.
I personally love the Rosco / DMG series. Of the LED lights I've tested they have one of the best colour rendering on skin tone.
Controversially, I'll say that I don't like Sky Panels. I've found them to not be very good on actors. I won't use them as a key. But I would with a Rosco DMG.
https://us.rosco.com/en/products/brand/dmg-lumiereI also like Cream Source. They're very good for colour as well.
https://creamsource.com/Astera are nice for effects. I've used them for some key work and they can be good.
https://astera-led.com/Digital Sputnik are also very good as well.
https://digitalsputnik.com/I'm sure you'll find these to be...expensive....
But if you want actual nice useful light, these are my go to....
Oh, and these guys are GREAT and no-one knows about them. I think it's very very cool and I've started using them a but.
Ruby Lights....this is a terrible website, they're a french company, but this is one of the most useful and cool lights I've used for a while. They make a long length of bi-colour LEDs but it's sewn into a flexible velcro and magnetised case that you can nail, velcro, or magnetically stick anywhere. They also have cool magnetically applied light modifiers that go on the front. They're quick and flexible and tiny. I love them.
https://rubylight.fr/le-boa/Also in the nifty and cheap I love kick lights. They're like a tiny skypanel created way before there were skypanels. They don't have the output but they really are fun and useful and like nothing else out there...and pretty cheap for what they do.
http://riftlabs.com/kick/JB