Aputure F10 Fresnel on 1200d vs 600d and Spotlight Mount

[@GoodRebelEdits]

Busting the light meter out of a holster is a serious move. Love it.

[@dappergaffer]

@@GoodRebelEdits feel like a gun slinger 😆

[@GoodRebelEdits]

@@dappergaffer The cinema swashbuckler. New channel name??

[@dappergaffer]

@@GoodRebelEdits 😆 yes!

[@BrandonPorsche]

Great Video , Many Thanks

[@TJHill-films]

COB stands for "Chip on board" where the LEDs are a single large chip rather than individual diodes scattered in a pattern. Love the video and way to represent Rockford!

[@Dfproductions865foryou]

A COB light is still many individual LEDs in a pattern, just grouped tightly and bonded to the same thermal conducting PCB. Think about the diode patterns for full spectrum COBs, RGBWW, BLAIR-GC, RGBACL, etc.. Practically, the function of a COB light is to allow us to tightly pack LED's to effectively form a smaller source for the sake of shadow quality and enabling optical modifiers that become impractical as the source gets bigger, but they're definitely still multiple LEDs.

[@raredreamfootage]

More importantly, a COB looks like one continuous source, whereas SMD's (i.e. Nanlite's FS series) creates discreet patterns, especially on multi color chips.

[@NJRIII]

Stoked to watch. Been using my fresnel and adding some bigger LEDs shortly. Been trying to snipe bicolor versions.

[@dappergaffer]

@@NJRIII really does wonders for the 600!

[@matthewlivingston6635]

Andrew lock has a video that explains the same allegory. You can’t go wrong with old school Arri hmis. But I do love the compact trade offs of LED and color control.

[@Dfproductions865foryou]

Doing my own testing with the F10 and the 600 series lights, the only two lights it's really optimized for are the 600D and the 600X. For the 600C and the 1200D, you're far better off using the hyper-reflector set. The 600D with the F10 really heros on set.

[@AnotherCameraChannel]

CF12 is a much needed upgrade 🌟

[@dappergaffer]

@@AnotherCameraChannel I forgot they announced that! Do you know if it works well with the 1200d? From what I see it’s optimized for the 1200x and 1000c

[@AnotherCameraChannel]

@ I hear everything down the line before 600d is fine. 600D and 600C cob design isn’t bevelled or something so it’s not compatible. 1200d should be good. If I get to test it again I’ll try

[@AnotherCameraChannel]

Found the post: "Backwards compatible with: LS 1200d Pro LS 600c Pro LS 600c Pro II"

[@dappergaffer]

@ i’ll have to test it out

[@IvanEngler]

actually helpful

[@raredreamfootage]

I think communicting brightness of a light fixture using lux or footcandles would be more useful than using the exposure triangle. A single metric is easier to compare different lights. Further more, you need to take the light meter readings not just at the center of the beam, but also at the outter edge because even though the 1200D is 2/10 brighter at the center of the beam, but what about the overall volume of light?

[@dappergaffer]

@@raredreamfootage yes, good points. I simply use f stops day in and day out - so that’s what I think in. I did test the light across the beam in my own tests and maybe I should have added those tests to this as well. It under-performs badly across the beam as well. The point of this episode was more to point to the fact that you really need to understand what these modifiers are optimized for as it has a massive impact on effectiveness

[@fokdavid6779]

How about 1200D using 15"Hyper reflector compare to 600D using F10 Full spot?

[@koncreate8744]

Both are quintessential light shaping equipment for any serious Gaffer.

[@dappergaffer]

Did you realize how inefficient the F10 is on the 1200?