LED light panels suggestions from China?

OldCorpse said:
FWIW, I also bought the F&V K4000 lights in their amazing 3-unit deals, and like them a great deal. My one quibble is the unfortunate choice of battery power - it demands v-mount batteries which are quite expensive (as are the chargers), and you can easily double the price of the lights just to power them... a bit of a downer. Also it was rumored that F&V was going to start selling barn doors for the K4000(S) at some point, which has not happened yet - many people don't see the need for barn doors on LED lights, but for some it is quite useful. Otherwise, there's nothing negative I can say about these lights - the build quality is very good, which is important... some LED lights I've bought by other manufacturers are OK for very short term use, but fall apart very quickly. Overall, I would highly recommend F&V lights.
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Until now we did not offer barn doors as in our opinion they are not usefull for multi-LED panels, many manufacturers don't think about if they make sense cutting the light and just add them because they saw them on other lighting solution. I understand that some users like to use them for protection of the LEDs but our panels have a transparent protective cover in front of the LEDs so that they are save. Others use the barn doors to attach filters which is also a viable solution. At the moment we prepare a wide range of accessories for the K4000 panels and other F&V lights which includes honeycomb grids, filter holders and new diffusors and in our opinion with some of those accessories barn doors can make more sense and therefore we will also add barn doors at that time.
 
Mark-André Voss said:
Until now we did not offer barn doors as in our opinion they are not usefull for multi-LED panels, many manufacturers don't think about if they make sense cutting the light and just add them because they saw them on other lighting solution. I understand that some users like to use them for protection of the LEDs but our panels have a transparent protective cover in front of the LEDs so that they are save. Others use the barn doors to attach filters which is also a viable solution. At the moment we prepare a wide range of accessories for the K4000 panels and other F&V lights which includes honeycomb grids, filter holders and new diffusors and in our opinion with some of those accessories barn doors can make more sense and therefore we will also add barn doors at that time.
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I personally would love an eggcrate option.
 
Went by a shop and bought one of the battery adapters today. $29. I'll be going back to get a couple more. Works great. I'll post a video soon - nothing too great, just something that shows it working probably.
 
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Knowing that the LED lights are made from a plastic enclosure, and seeing how baggage handlers work on airlines, I wouldn't trust it.

Your mileage may vary.
 

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Ken Hull said:
Mark, is there currently an UltraColor version of the K4000S?
What is (or will be) the price in US$?
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I dont see it on their us website... But its available in EU. However it seems they didnt consider the bad placement of the diffuser plate or make and angled bracket yet so I an beginning to look at phosphorous lighting instead. Check out the Area 48 soft. Theres a La Foret video out there where they test it. Pretty sweet and easy to set up with box and crate and all...
 
I would recommend Socanland 1x1's. They offer a 50W Light a 50CTD and a new 100W Bi-Color panel called the Nova CTD. They are much brighter than the F&V lights, which don't have enough punch. I have used both and would say that the F&V's only put out between 50%-60% of the light of Socanland's 50CTD lights. Plus I never trusted the plastic construction of F&V's lights, at least socanland's are all metal. The diffusion on the Socanland's is a simple slide in rail based simple. It makes it much easier to quickly add diffusion and you can leave the diffusion panel in when you store the lights in their case for travel.

I bought them from a company in the U.S. called intellytech. Their website is www.intellytechusa.com. They are pretty good to deal with, they actually sent my lights out the same day, and I got them that week. I chatted with them on their site before hand and they were pretty knowledgeable about the equipment. I bought this light http://www.intellytechusa.com/collections/led-light-panels/products/socanland-50ctd-1x1-bi-color. I wish I had waited to buy it, now they offer a 3 light kit that is discounted quite a bit.
 
The Socandland's CRI is much lower than almost any other 1x1 LED out there.

You will have to put at least a 1/4 minus green on it to get the colors to look correct.
 
I don't have any green in any of my Socanland LED's. I shopped around and tested a few models from colleagues before deciding on the Socanlands, these panels easily outmatched other panels in the price range. The panels were much brighter and I didn't that color shift that can happen in cheaper LED panels. The panels are advertised at 90+ CRI, but mine are actually closer to 93.

I have had these lights for almost a year now and as DP they get a lot of use. I have been really happy with their performance.
 
mcgeedigital said:
And you measure the CRI how exactly?
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HAHA!

Also Matt, since you own an Epic most likely you often shoot with that camera. RED sensor is awfully sensitive to green spikes. Every time i shoot with anything Canon my images look true to life - the second i use RED (with the same LitePanel lights) it's always a bit greenish.
 
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