Cheap vs Expensive Key Lights (Zhiyun X60 vs Smallrig 450D)

How tiny and cheap can your key light be and still be professional looking for a youtube studio? Do you need a fancy expensive main light? Or can you get away with a tiny Zhiyun X60. Smallrig RC 450 D vs Zhiyun X60, Lantern vs Softbox. Best lighting for youtube talking head videos.
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[@williampetry]

I'm old enough to remember when SmallRig WAS the cheap option.

[@SonoranAstro]

fr lmao

[@waltersmietana6204]

Zhiyun with big lantern at 6500k was the best loooking of all of your setups. IMO.

[@chrisbrown8748]

2:54 I feel like you missed the perfect opportunity to say one of my favorite lines “this is good content, this is a good show”🤣🤣🤣

[@EmoEmu]

Can I have the light when you die from Bluetooth?

[@thebentzenable]

😂😂

[@AprilClayton]

I film in the dark. I’m here for the shirt. Very nice.

[@mattslaboratory5996]

Between Gerald's review today and yours, we consumers now have all the information we need to make an informed decision. The thing is bright. Gerald loves the look of it, but your all-black copy is handsomer, I'd say.

[@bigtb1717]

From what I can tell, the bi-color version is black, the RGB version is silver.

[@AndrewBassonZA]

checked prices , some decent value for money from them , the small size is the huge thing for me

[@thebentzenable]

I really liked the Grid lighting with the dark background

[@prizepictures1]

A little late to the party but I like the Small Rig. The hot air balloons are cool. 😂

[@lavapix]

No one ever got up to change the TV channel. You had the youngest kid sitting right in front of the TV to do that.

[@studioatlanta]

You light up my life! I wonder if that mini mount will be the same as Ulanzi mini mount on the Ulanzi 40watt..

[@anamoyalt]

All those variables. Small rig/Zhiyun/lantern/softbox/color temperature! Oh, my head hurts 😅

[@SeriousSnapes]

oh man you are definitely not the only one that hates Bowens Mount.

[@TubaSolotheHiker]

Pros of the light: Camera Conspiracies Flaws of the light:…Also Camera Conspiracies

[@MakePictures]

you made me spit coffee twice lol i’m not sure if this is reliable info but i will trust it is

[@holgor87]

Good save on the wife photography on the beach sentence. Would have sounded totally different if you ended the sentence earlier „…and you’re doing your wife (-Photography on the beach.)“ 😂

[@allencrider]

Everybody with a youtube chanel -- even Rob Trek -- did a video on these Zhiyun lights. And they all pubIished their vids at the same time. I have their smartphone gimbal but I never use it.

[@JoATTech]

I haven't published a video about these lights :P

[@2cats1guy]

Personally, I don’t like to flood the background in light so the Zhiyun looks better. It achieves 3D pop.

[@Hodenkat]

Every time you raise a camera to your face you absorb radiation from the processor directly into your brain through your eyeball! LOL!

[@EvelynDayless]

Wouldn't shrunk down diffusion just be a beauty dish or an led panel? How soft a light is is determined by it's diameter so there's only so much you can do physically to make it small.

[@audioupgrades]

I think the Bowens adapter is too narrow, making the light directional instead of diffused. Still, with some tinkering, it probably works as a key light.

[@log0log]

It looks like the Bowens adapter gives more focused light with that reflector inside, that even lantern looks more like softbox (

[@robjackson2731]

I'm definitely a grower 🎉

[@Michael-fw5ef]

I want to buy the Zhiyun X60, clicked on your link and...........................it's out of stock.

[@Michael-fw5ef]

In my early years, as a young lad, I was a shower, not a grower. As I age, I find I am no longer a shower and still not a grower. In other words, I have experienced shrinkage everwhere.

[@KevinsLillaProduktion]

😔

[@jack00scarecrow]

love your channel , i have learned a lot about T stops. Do you like honey?, you know the stuff from the bees, and what would you film them on ?

[@theobgshow]

First. You're welcome. I even got in before Mr. CC himself. I'm gonna celebrate.

[@gr-os4gd]

I do like that Zhiyun better (with softbox and grid), and I think it can give you more flexible lighting options as it doesn't spill on your background as much. You could apply some epic Douchey KZbinr Lighting™ back there.

[@limelightmuskoka]

Diffusion is a constraint of physics and the larger surface area that is needed to negate specular light. Just like physics dictates how we will never have holograms in the air. It's impossible to have a holographic projection without a substate. Put a neon glowy array thing in the backdrop with the X60 and, epic light blogging will occur. Two diffusers in hand look more comedic. Entertained by the ramble as always. Good stuff.

[@Nordic_Ventures]

what if you have the diffusor "bending" light rays so you could have a compact light but get the same effect of a diffusor. like a lense that bends reality and diffuses the light on to the whole room/ scene .

[@EmoEmu]

It'll now be renamed Mediumrig.

[@jeansebastientlebreton]

Zuzüne🎉 much more cinematic pro vibes

[@user-me5eb8pk5v]

I got my s24 ultra in the mail this morning with my spring foam mattress and four extra 5x16850 DIY solar cobs. Using the new cable to transfer from the old s22 ultra right now, 59.1% (building record history database...66%) Dremel with my 2 in one, can't come to terms with hyper tough amazing 12v line, got the bottom 2/3 lens floundering, the buttons are different too, might get a new case, the ring is horse shit, don't get the ring. lol

[@KieranCoughlanWicklow]

If you put the 2 diffusion bulbs side by side took a pic for the thumbnail then photoshopped Sydney Sweeney in you’d have 87m views now

[@briantierney6992]

X60 looks more cinematic Casey (if that means anything..)

[@JoATTech]

Smallrig looks 10x better and 3x warmer :D

[@KnightmareOX]

I wonder if they fixed the horrible battery issue the original molus x100 had

[@davidcortes105]

They did!

[@3v1Bunny]

smal lantern zhiuxyz for me.

[@GemstoneAutos]

Thanks for Shedding light on this topic. :)

[@yawningmarmot]

Electrosmog, oh jeez 😂

[@koreanwonders]

Your comment has a “Translate to English” link underneath :D

[@yawningmarmot]

@@koreanwonders What does it translate to? :D

[@koreanwonders]

⁠@@yawningmarmotdoesn’t change anything actually. Just turns to “See original (Translated by Google)”

[@auroraflash]

Oh, I will grow on you 😂

Well, I was in the pool..

[@umevisuals8263]

Grower button

[@maomao180]

new light looks better tbh

[@djsusan00]

Can confirm, I am a grower, not a shower.

[@Deceptive_Perspective]

is it me or are your audio levels a tad low?

[@DigiDriftZone]

They really need at least an app with presets…

[@Liamitis123]

8th

[@chasing-liberty]

listen to potato jet - joo-in is the pronounciation of zhiyun smallrig is way better

[@mrdamiansingh]

Stay strong bro keep it going! Never stop

[@Bcutter]

hahah. too many gems in this one to mention any of them. also regarding the “electro smog”, it’s not ionizing radiation so you’re fine. as long as you don’t feel your cells boiling (as microwaves can only heat us) you are ok!

[@cameraconspiracies]

Non ionizing radiation is still harmful, it's definitely not agreed upon that it's safe. Plenty of data showing all electronic devices are harmful in some way.

[@Bcutter]

@@cameraconspiracies i shall ask the flat earth society about this and will return with a final verdict

[@caesarblanko1399]

comet into insurance marketing baba

[@mattcarlson12]

Finally my favorite camera channel is part of the douche-tuber new product videos dump! 😂 Love you Kasey!

[@CliffR]

lol @ shower or grower

[@blitzstormer]

ROFL!!!!

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

The Zhiyun is better. The Smallrig light looks comparatively warm. You get what you pay for sometimes.

[@davidcortes105]

You can control the light from your phone!

[@MoeGunz]

Zhiyun was better. Your background should be darker than your subject. Also soft light has a lot to do with the size of the diffusion. Larger diffusion, softer the light. So that won't ever shrink. However, perhaps an innovation in how they're packaged/unfolded to emphasize portability.

[@interestings7866]

A blue tooth remote is literally be less radiation that walking under a power line… you avoiding all the power lines in your weekly walks…?

[@cameraconspiracies]

Not the same thing, people are wearing bluetooth devices for hours. Proximity matters.

[@sidburn2385]

Im a Blutwurst 😂 not a Fleischwurst

[@neddanison9202]

Zhiyun is pronounced "JER-ÜN" (British "R").

[@trym2121]

Err.. you're being a caveman to control the light is probably your problem unable to operate the zhiyun app. Chinese lighting product nowadays controllable using smartphone via Bluetooth. Even my godox trigger can be controlled using phone

[@cameraconspiracies]

I guess he missed that segment lol.

[@gr-os4gd]

@@cameraconspiracies Probably the effects of that Bluetooth radiation, to be fair.