Aputure Amaran and barn doors? (quite urgent, please help)

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alohype

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Hi everyone!
Sorry for calling "urgent", but I have to order lights in the next 2 hours or so.
Does anyone have successfully used barn doors with Aputure Amaran lights? There are not included in the package and I cannot see if there are any mounts on them for attachment. I want to buy HR672C model, but if it's not possible it will be a no-no for me.


Side question:
What would you advice to go for: daylight or daylight-tungsten balanced version? There is a filter for daylight balanced to get tungsten, daylight is almost twice as bright. But then tungsten-daylight have that ease of use and ability to dial in something in between. Based on your experience with led panels what would be your advise?
 
Hi,

I have the 528W version and I can see from the pictures of the 672 that it is the same housing. And no, there is no hardware or slotting built into it to mount barn doors. BUT the beam angle on these (as with almost all LED panels) is so wide that barn doors will have almost no effect. Think of it as like putting barn doors on a softbox...But that's not as bad as it sounds - you just have to use common things like flags and scrims to shape the light should you need to.

I would buy the W - daylight only - because it is going to be much brighter. And yes, it comes with an orange slip in filter to match tungsten at around 3300k-3400k.
The dual-color ones are convenient but you sacrifice half the brightness.
 
In my experience, barn doors never work with LED panels. I'm not sure why they bother with them.

Not a fan of the W - it's not very bright. Prefer my YN300, which is also cheaper.
 
DPStewart said:
I would buy the W - daylight only - because it is going to be much brighter. And yes, it comes with an orange slip in filter to match tungsten at around 3300k-3400k.
The dual-color ones are convenient but you sacrifice half the brightness.
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What? No. The S would be much brighter - the narrower the angle, the brighter the light. And yes, daylights will be brighter because you're using all the LEDs instead of half.
 
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