Which video light should you buy?

[@RahulRoy-id5yf]

I think you are the only youtuber who could make even lighting videos intersting!

[@Protestan88]

Check out Parker Walbeck

[@mezza001]

Agreed!

[@cameraconspiracies]

I picked F. Damn, I have expensive tastes. That's not gonna bode well for my future ;)

[@PotatoJet]

Camera Conspiracies we’ll be broke together.... but at least we’ll have all the cool cameras

[@appledadlife]

What a great video, I’m definitely getting the 120D, once I have the money...

[@aputurelighting]

😍😍😍 -Nerris

[@brettonplacefilms2033]

that favorite light is out of stock on Amazon... when is it comin' back ?

Wow! They way and dlow you’ve explained stuff! Not only you made a comparison, but for each light you have woven a piece of knowledge. This is an example I’ll try to adapt in my videos as well.

[@Heddrick]

I picked E and I have a theory as to why it was picked second place. When you look at E by itself, the green cast is obvious. However side by side with the other footage, the magenta and reds in the other clips makes it appear more accurate. I'm assuming this was how the footage was presented to your test audience. Also, it seems like D got pretty dark on the close up. In spite of that, D was my second choice. Cool video and subbed now ;)

[@David-ud9ju]

On it's own, it looks green. Side by side with the others, it looks even more green, because it's next to lights that are obviously neutral in colour. I had E and G as the worst because they both obviously had massive hues to the green and magenta respectively.

[@JooWorks]

Is there a way to subscribe to your channel again. So much fun!

[@ChadMojito]

yeah just make several accounts i guess

[@Athaeus]

Fantastic! More products I will never be able to buy or find a use for, and yet I now want them. Thanks Potato Jet!

[@jeanebope5575]

Dude. I want you to make a video about everything! Fast paced. Very little stupid stuff. Very educational with just enough fun. Absolutely love it. This is how it should be done.

[@jogandocomnils]

What do you take in account when setting up the lights? Like deciding the position, the power, so on and so forth. Like you told about fighting the Sun, could you show us how you do that and how does that affects the scene? Thank you for your videos, they are very informative. I have watching them since I discovered your channel yesterday.

[@guilhermebazzotti7016]

I'm in love with the Aputure 120d...

[@SydneyAtinFilms]

OMG! I'm so stressed deciding which light to buy and boom, here's your video! Thanks!

[@jlimproductions9411]

What a review! Thank you for the very helpful comparisons across the different light options out there

[@NamanKashyap5]

Great Work! Please make more videos of this kind. Once I see notification about your video I can't stop myself to watch it.

[@Hexspa]

Ripping into limo studio is like ripping into my heart. Two year club looking at a 120d. Coming for your throne, Mr. Jet. 👑

[@DennisSchmitz]

Same here, happy Apurture 120D and 120T user. Great lights, producing amazing skin tones.

[@Jacob_Roberts]

I'd like to have ⅓ of your energy.

[@stalman]

Dude, you live in echo park!? I’m staying in echo park this week and I totally want to get you on the podcast!

[@zacgrimaldo]

Just so you know, your videos are still working a year later! I have Dracast panels and flap jacks and I was thinking about moving to the Aputure line. I shoot more interviews and people and like the softbox idea. Thanks for being ahead of the game! Whenever I come out to LA I'm always near Echo Park, you're prolly in Beverly Hills by now though...

[@AshishPyala]

Hey man just wanted to say I appreciate you taking the time out to CC your videos

[@huyked]

Thank you for the comparisons! 1:24 I wish these had not been overexposed though. Made the selection a bit tougher.

[@FGNStream]

the thing about the cheap soft box light is you can put a kinoflo cfl in the light and it drastically improves the color of the light still not great for transportation but work in a pinch

[@michaelfrymus]

Most productions now use skypanels! I use them all the time, the 60s and 360s. Super popular

[@OG4XMongo]

Dude, two videos in one week? You're killing it! Awesome video, so informative, thank you.

[@alchemisthere]

CVP made some livestreams on lighting. They have some where you can choose comour temperature which stays evenly from 0-100 % output. But they cost so much.

[@Deathbynature89]

The best video ending. :D I like your talking.

[@hangingwithsam9818]

I love your videos. They've helped me so much with starting my KZbin channel. I'm going to get a cannon M50 for my videos thank to you! Keep doing what you're doing!!!

[@henkechristoph]

hands down, you are one of my fav filmmaking channels on yt:)

[@DevilRyu1337]

WANT APERTURE LIGHT REVIEW!

[@jonyclintonxD]

DevilRyu1337 aputure *

[@christianschuster4184]

You are my star from now on ... Thanks a lot for this profound work.

[@bobinjc]

Wow, you're really great at this. Love your videos and looking forward to your next vlog. As for these lights and the budget filmmakers out there, why not just go with the cheap bright LED's and throw a 1/4 OTG or OTB on it? Save some money and get the color you want. Definitely more work in post to get the color right, but it would work, right?

[@victorfilm_]

Potato Jet, thx for helping me decide. The 120D it is! 👊

[@t5spdtoys]

I'm old and pretty much just started exploring youtube. You my friend just gained a new sub. #nicework

[@luckynever8208]

the best review about light!!!! how about portable/pocket size lights?

[@nbdvisuals]

I picked A and F... maybe I need to get my eyes checked, and a bigger budget. This was a great comparison, Gene! Many thanks!

[@PotatoJet]

NBD Visuals those are good picks. Tungstens are suppose to have close to perfect color, and F is one of my favorites too 🤘

[@micmule3395]

with the green light on my ips panel its very green but on my VA its a very nice white

[@chadwin]

Very cool light review! I love talking about light all day everyday. This was really detailed. I've been pretty resistant to buying the 120d/300d cause they're pretty pricey, but I may succumb soon....thanks! haha

[@drutgat2]

I enjoyed this immensely. Thank you very much. I think, though, that it would be useful for quite a few people to have you look at physically smaller LED panels, in order to suggest ways that they might be used.

[@sfcelebnaur]

Gene, check out the Jinbei EF-150D LED. It's just like the Aputure 120D but it's brighter, cheaper price, a LED, comes with it's own battery and has a bowen mount! I'd love to see a versus review!

[@michaelkpp7285]

Quick Tip about color temperature: If your working with a colorist and/or are planning on heavily grading your footage, _do not_ mix warm and cold light too much, especially on the face.

[@HiethGeorge]

You should be over 1 million subs - a lighting video over 15 minutes long that is interesting and fun to watch #awesome

[@FULLofJOHN]

What do you use as cases for your lights and other film equipment?

[@Michael_Lak]

I'm only at 1:24 and I'm already going wow this is comprehensive.

[@OZbibaO]

So underrated, amazing content. Very informative and well delivered! You deserve more subs!

[@Diegosees]

Bravo! I've been burning through video after video of the LED gamut; so glad I saw this one. Great video Poe-Tay-Toe :)

[@mayakern]

the backlight does look good!

[@iloper]

So happy i find people who notice green tints..

[@jennyluvsfood]

i chose D and F too!

[@OldSchoolFilm1930]

Running ETC lights. Heavy as shit but indestructeble and reliable. Downside is power though. Gonna look into the Aputure, V-Mount seem very convinient to me. As usual great info video. Thanks. :D

[@fd3871]

"they are not going to last very long [regarding setup and breakdown]" ... this is pretty much my experience with the Aputure light dome: the stitching on the seams in one area came apart, and the velcro on the diffuser straight up ripped off. The fun part about the latter, is since it is a Chinese company (like most nowadays), official replacement parts take months to get in...

[@AxTechs]

I've been looking into light. That I can put behind my pc for gaming so this was really useful

[@mjeffharrison]

Great video. Love your channel. Do I understand right that the 120d is 6000K? Have you had any issues missing that with natural daylight or other sources at 5600K?

[@wodddj]

Spectrum is important! For example you have a object reflecting 600nm orange, and your light does not cover that wavelength, then it will be grey and dark on the sensor. Same as what human eyes see. The best way of lighting is to burn the lamp filament to 5000K temperature, it creates a most continuous spectrum curve.

[@rinusworldzm]

Off base I loved E straight away. But D was good.

[@channeldown5113]

this taught me so much about lighting. thanks man!!

[@markshirley01]

Yep waiting for the new aputure light dome mk 2 to go with a 120

[@TinyCometFilms]

surprised you didn't mention Quasar Science tubes. I have 4 of those, two 2 foot, and two 4 foot, and they're amazing and super light and easy to use, although naturally soft, so they're not as versatile as harder lights that you can soften with a softbox.

[@TommyCallaway]

I love lamp.

[@RyanCowanPlus]

Absolutely brilliant video dude! Charismatic, amusing and very informative. Thank you

[@mohammadmeu]

Very educational. Thanks!

[@SONYAdicto]

Full review of the 120d, please!!!

[@thehendyimage]

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for!!! Thank you!

[@utkangezer]

I AM NOT EVEN INTERESTED IN FILMING. Dude you make it so fun and pack so much info into these videos! And your apartment looks very nice actually, didn't ever realize that you were going cheap on anything. Illusions

[@myhappygecko2895]

love this vide and I've been into photography for a very long time and this was just excellent.

[@needmorebeans]

I'd love to see you review the affordable Godox lights/system.

[@Avidcomp]

You didn't mention Dedolights. I have three and they're great (DLED bi-color).

[@Falkenroth1]

Arri was my pick. Funny thing is thats what I use.

[@spencercollins7676]

Your content is unbelievably good

[@ArraialHD]

Cool as always... and by the way... I´ve been watching some videos about the Yongnuo YN360S and it seams fine. Do you know about that? Thank you take care

[@supunedirimanne]

Nice conclusion 😂😂😂 "Guys im so tired of talking 😂" Thank you, grab a lot of informations.. And the sad is why didn't u upload this one week earlier??? I already bought that cheapest light set 😁

[@lscfcache]

This was F****NG good! Do more of these... subscribed

[@tempest63132]

This video was AMAZING!! Thank you! please do a 120d review

[@nicholasaaseby738]

I'd love to get your opinion on the color quality of the Rotolight Neo2 and Aeos

[@armandomunoz4946]

Wow! Video packed with super useful information! Thank you!

What do you think about the more portable Rotolights 1 & 2?

[@donjose4637]

Hey, I have a doubt, why not change white balance to get the feel of tungsten light indoors than using gels?

[@c0pyimitati0n]

Would you recommend the 120d for lighting a wide shot? Let's say you need to light two people, from head to toe, which light/s would you use?

[@smalltalk.productions9977]

for indoor use and when you need a ton of light in a wide space, think old-school and use the lowel tota. yup, it's tungsten and gets plenty hot but it really powers the light especially if bounced off a ceiling so works great indoors. thumbs up.

[@hidetakejapan]

What do you think about Godox sl-60w? I hope you will try it

[@ethelquinn]

"oh my god ive been talking for so long" "byee" :'D

[@JT1993GG]

You make everything interesting, thanks for the lessons !

[@beingarealballa]

Thank you very much PJ, now I want to buy a light. I was sooo fine by shooting daylight only and then this video happend

[@hugonascimento742]

May I ask something dumb? I was videoing a white decoration using outside light as ambient light. The item was on the floor, and from eye sight the Shadows were soft and good, but the camera recorded it as a blue source light. When I've placed a reflector to bounce the sunlight from the floor, the camera started to do more natural colour, and no more blue. I think I can recover all blueish videos... I wasn't using any artificial light, and sun made this blueish indirect light. Is this normal or should I've chosen a different white balance on camera (was always on sunlight).

[@katobruh]

"steve's already life less soul" hahaha damn cold

[@DigiDriftZone]

How do you think something like the new Godox ML60 compare to these? - I'm looking for a key light to do talking heads and interviews indoors.

[@laidbacklifestyle389]

Please do an Aperture Light Dome review!!

[@Nordicus0114]

I would love to get my hands on the arri skypanels

[@playboxlimited.]

Please does the purchase come with the light dome or not?

[@therealdougblueskies]

Cheers man, I’ve seen a few of your vids. All good stuff. Did you get around to doing piece on 120D, nice looking light, in all respects with that soft box👍

[@prettycoolPJ]

This was REALLY helpful! Thank you!

[@BridieMacdonald]

Next purchase!

[@PaulCoboPhoto]

Fantastic Information. Thank you for sharing all of these tips and info.

[@adachristian6103]

A few weeks ago we had a bigger shoot and often used an Aputure. I really liked it because of it's versatility but we all definately detected a green shift. Is it possible that it varies that much from lamp to lamp?

[@adachristian6103]

we used the 300d

[@dexterity_studios]

E. I think a little green tint is flattering to the skin. And aliens fascinate me, too.

[@EricLefebvrePhotography]

Your main complaint for the softbox kits are: - Green tint (bad CRI) - Slow power up / warm up. - Bulky bulbs - Low output. - bad build quality. Most of thos issues cqan be deal with by swapping out the CFL with high CRI LED bulbs. Yes the build quality is a bit iffy (I have a set of the ones that have the 4 light sockets) but the quality of the light depends on the bulbs you put in. There are really powerful LED's bulbs with decent CRI meant for photo and video you can get. You can get a pack of 4 25W LED (that's ACTUAL watts, so equivalent to about 150W incandescent roughly) that have a CRI of over 90 (I know, CRI is flawed but still a good yardstick) for about 50$ Canadian. You can also get a 45W (no idea what the equivalent in incandescent would be) version of those LED bulbs at 24$ Canadian each. Of course you still have to deal with crap build quality but at least you get better light.

[@DavidKfilmmaker]

I love my 300d and my cute lil mx.

[@checksixstudioshop]

Any reason to pick the 120d daylight over the 120t tungsten?

[@jalabi99]

Your Amazon link for the best light doesn't work any more. It's the Aputure 120d? What's the full name of the product so I can search for it on Amazon?

[@jayrockcontent]

So what letter is the 120 this video was super confusing I have no idea what letter is what light.

[@quinnmatteo467]

I liked the d and e. For some reason the e looks natural to me. It kinda looks like it's shot from Alexa. Alexa has this greenish tint or what but yeah you're the man.

[@jasonwateano6775]

C'mon youtube algorithm, get this guy to 100k already.