Black Friday Specials

Eric Coughlin said:
My hypothetical future wife loves when I buy gear because she knows the gear is profitable and will enable her to live a more comfortable lifestyle as a result of the vast profits.
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She sounds like a smart woman. Hopefully the imaginary kids take after her in that regard.
 
puredrifting said:
Cool light. But for the $1,500.00 on sale, I could buy three of the Godox VL300s and have more flexibility assuming I only occasionally needed to key
with that much power like through a 4x4, 6x6 or 8x8. I like the two and three light bars from Matthews. But seems like a good deal for a powerful single instrument.
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The one thing I'd say is that I regularly use a 330w (from Nicefoto) cob through a 60" octabox with 2 layers of diffusion. It's an umbrella open softbox and setting the whole thing up is wicked fast and only requires one light stand.

There have been situations where I wanted to use both layers of diffusion but had to pull one because the light wasn't strong enough. If I had some more power, i could probably keep both layers or pull the light back to light more area when wanted. Could be useful!

And I bought my 330w for $700ish when I got it... definitely a cheap chinese light, but the build quality has made me happy so far. Color is good. Happy customer. Basically the same price as the CLAR

Still, I dont think I'm personally going to buy the CLAR 500 because I'm basically doing fine. Maybe next year
 
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Eric Coughlin said:
My hypothetical future wife loves when I buy gear because she knows the gear is profitable and will enable her to live a more comfortable lifestyle as a result of the vast profits.
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Yeah but that's not GAS. But I tell my wife the same thing ("this is going to make us so much money!")
 
I don't know if I should be proud of myself but I didn't buy any new gear. I wanted the VL300 but I'm not dropping $500 on a light that I don't have to have and won't make me more money. Unfortunately I don't have the clients who will pay for it. I don't find these Black Friday sales very good. The vast majority of retailers use it to move of less desirable items. On the one hand I like getting gear before I need it so I'm fluent with it before taking it on a job. On the other hand you can buy gear then have it sit and depreciate.

We are currently in a weird time where there is not a lot of video work and yet very high demand for all video related gear. I'm tempted to buy things for the fear in the event I need something for a job it will be out of stock.
 
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Interested in what 60" soft box you're using. I scooped a cheap one off of amazon, and it takes longer to set up than I prefer and it's super shallow so it's a tad spotty even with the baffle...
 
I got a Nice Photo 90cm (35") which is 24" deep with double diffusion. It's plenty deep the only problem is it soaks up a lot of light. The subject needs to be 3-5ft for a key (with 150w)
 
I got this 60" Glow octabox from Adorama - https://www.adorama.com/glsbez60octa.html?CategoryID=251327

I got it on sale but right now it's selling for $109 (with 2 layers of diffusion and grid)

26" deep

Using both layers of diffusion, the front really does glow evenly

I dont think it's totally even when using just the front layer. But probably close enough that you won't notice the difference much on the subject. It also comes with a dish to block direct light
 
wow 60" is gigantic I can't imagine wanting use something that big. What are you doing head to toe full body interviews?
 
Eric Coughlin said:
I just bought two CLAR Illumi Max 500w and one 350w. 1350w on a tri stand thingy should get close to an M18. Maybe add an Aputure 600D later which gets the four up to 1850w.




That's what she said.
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Let us know how they work for you!

One thing I'm curious about is how the output compares to the 600D and it it's actually 5/6 as bright or in reality it's dimmer
 
Peter C. said:
wow 60" is gigantic I can't imagine wanting use something that big. What are you doing head to toe full body interviews?
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It's just very soft. People like to put up 4x4 and 8x8 fabrics and push through those. This is sort of in-between the 2 (closer to 4x4). But yes you can pull it back without it getting super hard, and for lighting head to toe softly and evenly

The height/width is not unusably big in practice. But it's about 3' from front of modifier to back of COB housing, so you can't use it in a tight space
 
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