Litepanels 1x1 question: Daylight or Tungsten, which is wiser to get???

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Nicholas Natteau

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A few years ago, I bought a Litepanels 1x1, Miniplus Flood, and Miniplus Spot - all Daylight balanced.

I'm planning to add two more Litepanels 1x1's to my lighting kit, would it be wiser for me to stick with Daylight balanced and use the supplied 3200K gels if I plan to leave any ambient lighting on for in door interviews, or is it wiser to make sure that my next two 1x1s are Tungsten balanced???

What type of Litepanels is more often used, more versatile??? Daylight or Tungsten? Or does it not matter?

Are the gels exactly the same as if the Litepanels were one or the other.
Unfortunately, bi-color Litepanels are beyond my budget.

I know I could get a Kinoflo Diva 400 kit, and switch out the bulbs, but I prefer the lighter/smaller footprint of the Litepanels for traveling.
 
Thanks very much Mcgeedigital, that was very helpful!

Would two of those be powerful enough as background lights for a green screen interview where they would be lighting a small 5'x7' greenscreen???
 
Nicholas Natteau said:
Thanks very much Mcgeedigital, that was very helpful!

Would two of those be powerful enough as background lights for a green screen interview where they would be lighting a small 5'x7' greenscreen???
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You know, you can look up photometrics for lights and from that figure out if they'll give you enough stop at a given distance.

Science!
 
led panels to light a green screen? that's a lot of money just to wash a background. there are much less expensive lights that will do that just fine.
 
Thanks guys for all the feedback. Thanks MPB, I was just curious if the Felloni lights were powerful enough to light a small green screen. But my main reason for buying the Felloni lights would be for interview purposes, green screen would be secondary.
 
Awesome tip about those lights thanks. Always thought the litepanels were a tad bit pricey.
 
My 2 cents is that daylight is the way to go and I do not like the adjustable color temp models and feel they are just a marketing gimmick - unless you are for some reason unable to use or perhaps allergic to gels. Reasons:

1. When you need the most light it is always when you are fighting daylight - so get the most poop where you need it .
A mixed unit will give you less daylight when you need it and a tungstun unit will be useless if you need to gel with blue CTB gels which kill over 3x's the exposure that a CTO does.

2. You can always carry a selection of tungstun gels - 1/8 -1/2 CTO to drop the color temp to whatever you need. Since you are starting out with all daylight , gelling all your bulbs should not be appreciably less output than only using some of them in a mixed unit.

3. It is much more reliable to simply place a known color correcting gel over all your lights and then be able to set your camera color temp accordingly than to be messing around with dials and dimmers on your lights.

4. Only time to get all tungstun is if that's what you know you will need.
 
What kind of sony battery?

They have a V-mount, which can take any v-mount battery and will run at various times depending on the wattage hours of the battery itself.

As to the smaller sony battery mount, I'm not sure as it is only enabled on the mid-output model.

That battery plate is disabled on the high-output version of the light I have.

It will run a good 2.5 hours on a Dionic 90.
 
Lenilenapi said:
My 2 cents is that daylight is the way to go and I do not like the adjustable color temp models and feel they are just a marketing gimmick - unless you are for some reason unable to use or perhaps allergic to gels. Reasons:

1. When you need the most light it is always when you are fighting daylight - so get the most poop where you need it .
A mixed unit will give you less daylight when you need it and a tungstun unit will be useless if you need to gel with blue CTB gels which kill over 3x's the exposure that a CTO does.

2. You can always carry a selection of tungstun gels - 1/8 -1/2 CTO to drop the color temp to whatever you need. Since you are starting out with all daylight , gelling all your bulbs should not be appreciably less output than only using some of them in a mixed unit.

3. It is much more reliable to simply place a known color correcting gel over all your lights and then be able to set your camera color temp accordingly than to be messing around with dials and dimmers on your lights.

4. Only time to get all tungstun is if that's what you know you will need.
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I guess using the logic in paragraph one I can now only buy one color temperatur lamps for all my Keno's? I am pretty sure my clients would throw a fit if I did this however.
 
mcgeedigital said:
What kind of sony battery?

They have a V-mount, which can take any v-mount battery and will run at various times depending on the wattage hours of the battery itself.

As to the smaller sony battery mount, I'm not sure as it is only enabled on the mid-output model.

That battery plate is disabled on the high-output version of the light I have.

It will run a good 2.5 hours on a Dionic 90.
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thanks for your reply, Matt.
Yes, I was referring to the high output Felloni so you pretty much answered to my question. I thought a Sony NP could power them for a while.
I'm supposed to have a demo of this unit next week with the dealer, but I was just curious on how you guys power it.
Best,
Diego
 
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