Light Weight Portable "500" type LED recommendations

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cseeman

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I often have to travel extremely light so I'm looking for light weight portable "500" LED Panel.


So far the lightest seems to be the Digital Juice MiniBurst 504 - $649
At 24oz or 30oz with battery, I haven't found anything else close.
There's no barn doors but that might not be critical given LEDs don't play well with barn doors.
The battery, is actually proprietary though. Mounts one battery. There's no charger for the battery!
CRI>90
http://gear.digitaljuice.com/products/products.asp?pid=3702




The closest outside of that is the Genaray SpectroLED Outfit 500 Daylight LED Light - $420
At just over 2 lbs (32oz) this would be a close second.
CRI>85
Uses standard Sony batteries. Mounts two batteries
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...sp_o_500d_spectroled_outfit_500_daylight.html




There's the iKan ID508v2 - $499
At 3.1lbs it's already on the heavy side for what I'd like. Yet their demo video for original 508 says it's only 2.2lbs.
Has barn doors.
Uses standard Sony batteries. Mounts two batteries.
No mention of CRI which does have me concerned. I believe I saw one test which showed a CRI of 79 but don't know the validity of the test.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1069046-REG/ikan_id508_v2_ib508_v2_daylight_led_studio.html



I've looked at some of the other well known brands and I haven't seen anything else quite as light weight as these.
Dracast, Cool-Lux and Flolight make higher CRI 500 style lights but at 4 lbs and up, they're heavier than I want. Nothing from Kino-Flo, Litepanels or Alzo although Alzo does have an interesting 312.
F&V is also a strike out as far as I can tell. Came-TV has a 576 but again at 4 lbs it's heavier than a I want.


I'm curious if anyone can make recommendations or otherwise comment on the above.
 
The Yongnuo YN600 is an utterly amazingly light for only $100. It is very light and small, has no green spike, outputs an enormous amount of light , has no change in color as it is dimmed and has a remote dimmer. It has a noisy fan , but if you don't use the included plastic filters which cut air circulation and make it warmer, it doesn't need the fan and you can jam a stick in it to incapacitate it. I have only tried the full daylight which is really 4800 Kelvin.
 
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