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Once again, great vid Luke!!! 👍🏽

Nice facility. Does Eric supply banded for his cam-lock distro or would you need to bring your own? (note: large HMIs might be overkill in that place)

Such a clean space. Love it!

It’s all too expensive! I make feature length movies with birthday candles and trying to remember really hard. (I rub my eyelids for special effect.) 😂 But seriously, I see this subframe stuff, think about how it might work, get stumped, and I’m just amazed it’s available at any price point. Do people really complain about the “high cost” of professional film and video gear?

Awesome! Looks top clean. All black C-stands 😎

I’m pretty happy to be considered an “old friend”. Love ya bud. See ya on the next one

Sub frames 😵‍💫 my poor feeble brain, suddenly i'm feeling very old.

I was WOW ... at subframing, but when I've seen the tracking with LiDAR I was ... WOAH :D

Cool stuff Luke! Love the dino shirt

That sub frame tech sounds wild haha

Hi Luke, I saw you, your buddy Andrew Lock, and the Guy from “Gaffer Salon”, on an Aperture Lighting Panel a few days ago. Wow, I really love it when Gaffer’s get together and talk to each other; I learn so much! I watched both days of the show on the Aperture CZcams Channel. Also, I joined the “Gaffer’s Salon” on Facebook a few days ago; so far it’s been a great resource! Take Care, and have a good day. Mathew A Coulliette

Thank you Luke. I always appreciate you videos. On this one however, the open window is providing a healthy amount of ambient light which would become more influential whenever you darken the 1X1 with cloth. I suspect the softness change would not be so great if no other source, existed, (except for when you moved the diffusion closer to the subject since then the light can better wrap the subject.

"simple setup" :D

Look like lights for gaffer are like claps for woodworker ... you can never have too much :D.

Hi Thanks & God Bless bro - why is it that the 3ft dome on the shadow of the head looks brighter than the 5Ff which is a larger source?

Brillant!! 👏👏👏

Where to buy🤗

I love this. Would love to see more of these kinds of chats on your channel, Luke! Cheers ~

Have fun guys

Hi Luke, How are you? I hope you’re doing well. Your want-to-be-gaffer! I have made some good progress in the last couple of days. I have 2 Aputure 300x’s and 2 Aputure MC-Pro’s; (this is not new). But recently I have bought… Blackout Lighting Console Next for my iPad Pro - $800.00 (3) Godox CRMX Receivers - $200.00 each ($600). (They are powered by an USB port on the light. No Battery.) (1) Aputure Sidus One (Converts WiFi to CRMX Transmitter) - $400.00. (Brand new just got mine Thursday.) Just got everything working this afternoon. (Friday). I always appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions and I wanted to share this news with you. Mathew A Coulliette

the band is back together!

Great

Awesome to see these setups!

A perfect match 🎉

the 2k booklight and CRLS are the ones for me. Which set up did you like more after watching your video?

Be careful, the long 10sec press and short press actually factory resets the device

I have mine on order already! happy to see more info about this unit online.

Much needed.

nice usb connection

Damn I wish I had known about the party on Thursday! Flying in morning of.

Feel better soon Luke ❤ Really looking forward to your interviews and chats with John and Andrew- great idea!

Super cool news, Luke! Get well soon!

Arri. No toys.

I just went to their website and it looks like theres a 1.05 from the end of 2023: F600Bi Firmware V1.05

Thanks man!

Hi Luke, I love these episodes where you and Alan just talk to each other. Make more of these! Thanks.

LOL old video I know - but that unbleached muslin makes you look like freakin Matthew McConnahey in front of all that whhhhiskey 😂 No but srsly, you look airbrushed, that’s crazy. Building my first studio out, that’s def my next buy!

I’m a newer filmmaker trying to learn as much as I can appreciate your channel! I do have a basic question. What is a scratch light? I’ve heard you say the term several times but haven’t a clue.

Fan noise disappointed me. Im just going to use it on battery for run around overlay.

In answer to your question, Chinese manufacturers have no regard whatsoever for patents or proprietary designs. They have been manufacturing copies of so many American designs from American companies for decades. They certainly don't have any apprehension for stealing from each other. You will also see the same product marketed under several "name brands" and they are all the same item. Sometimes they will change a button around or two, but otherwise it is the exact same item.

I noticed a lot of chinese manufacturers doing the blow up lights in the months leading up to NAB 2024. Godox, Aparo, and probably some others doing inflatable lights. Aputure is doing it a little bigger but it raised the same questions you have. Seems like there's some open source on inflatable diffusion and all of the sudden its available to anyone making lights. I don't have answers, just find it interesting and peculiar as well.

Nicely presented, Luke. Do you know of any fresnels or focus attachments that are native Bowens M mount? I'm hoping to use these smaller form-factor COB lights, but they lack the modifiers/accessories that make them as useful as their larger (full size Bowens mount) brethren.

(I dont usually do conspiracy!) Its all china goverment controlled? china pumping out this stuff a susidised rates to eat the ecomonmy of the west.

Dedo says, and I paraphrase, patents make it easier for Godox and the other Chinese manufactures to rip them off. Western companies are not going to win court cases in China when the state is actively involve in commercial espionage as well as straight spying etc.

Sensational title

Always great to hear your take! Think the mount is ‘FM’ 🙌

I'm a director/dop doing documentaries and news in China and have been around these companies a lot. They are pretty much all sourcing in the same few streets of shopping mall-looking buildings where every floor is specialized for e.g. batteries, camera chips, cables - every shop there is a rep from a factory somewhere in the country making their individual, small solutions. if you are looking for that one screw one brand is using there is a good chance they sourced it there. so these guys came across something a factory was offering there and went for it and the factory lowered prices because now they had volume and the next took that as well because it was cheap and good and before you know it you have a new standard emerging that others are trying to get into as well. there are companies who are litigious and make their own, really proprietary stuff (DJI is one such place) but most are fairly small operations, even the names you know. Look at the new CineD video on Siriu as an example. it's a businessman in one office building with one factory. they aren't the size of canon or arri and basically mostly decide to move on quickly to where nobody else yet is. that makes china a fascinating place for innovations and trends in my opinion - so much is being tried, so much doesn't work and dies out and so much does and suddenly we have a new standard. Shenzhen in particular is a proper beehive of tinkerers.

So to shed some light on your question at the end (not really answer, but give some fun info). Aputure wasn't the first to do that folding softbox design. The US retailer, Adorama have their in house branded products. One is called 'Glow', and specifically, they make a product within their 'Glow' line, called 'parasnap'. On top of that, a Canadian based retailer, Stropepro, came out with a product called 'rapid snap'. Both of these products predate the aputure light dome 3 'quick fold' by at least 2+ years. Being canadian, I personally have two of the Stropepro Rapid Snap Bowens softboxes in my grip van almost 8 months before aputure released their version.

Some companies in China are nothing but optimizers. They take a design, copy it and figure a way to make it for a penny less than the competition.

Because Chinese companies get chips from the same major factories, so many cheap lights are on par with high end brands in that regard. Same goes for many other stuff there. It's like all smartphones using Sony sensors and many cameras as well using Sony sensors.