I get a lot of good use from my 160 LED light too, Bipin, but one comment you made cannot be left uncommented. :-)
> it is quite bright - dispenses the need for expensive powerful flash guns > mounted on the camera or away from it. Um, no, not even close, says both my experience and my meter. Here's the AF540FGZ versus the Neewer CN-160. Measured 2 feet from light source at 125th second, ISO 200. CN-160 full power: F4.0 AF540 at 1/64 power: F11 AF540 at full power: F90 That's F-ninety; nine zero. I think my meter may have pinned. So the expensive powerful flash gun at minimum power is 4 stops brighter than 160 LEDs at full output. At full power the AF540 is 10 stops brighter then the LEDs. That's several more stops than your camera has dynamic range. Even a K-5. :-) On the other hand, LEDs are great for when you want to do wide open aperture portraits for the great bokeh. I also use mine as a modeling light for the flash. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Bipin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > A bit off topic perhaps, but I find the use of LED Video Lights very > useful for fill lighting. Why, I have even used it as the main light > source for photos and videos indoors - rooms normally lit by > fluorescent tubes and CFL bulbs. > And the cost is ridiculously cheap - see the attached link - $ 8 for > my LED Video Light - uses (4) Ni-Mh batteries or the supplied AC > Adapter - and the batteries last for (3) Hours if used continuously. > I use it handheld or on a Hama mini tripod cum clamp. It is an awesome > compliment to the in-built flash too, as it is quite bright - > dispenses the need for expensive powerful flash guns mounted on the > camera or away from it. > I do not know why the Amazon com video lights are so expensive, as my > Delhi, India made ones are so very cheap - see link for use on the > Pentax K-5:- > > https://www.dropbox.com/home/Photos/LED%20Video%20Light > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6af5fx3ymo80fz2/AlQeAqmmxr > > Regards. > Bipin - from that far away enchanting land > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
