A Small Bright Light, Powerful Battery, and a Question...
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- Meet The Gaffer #342. Another small, bright light with a very interesting battery that allows for D-tap power draw. I'm also wondering if someone can explain to me why so many Chinese manufacturers come out with the same type of new unit at the same time: what's going on?!
www.colborlight.com/
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0:00 Colbor W100 First Look
6:29 A Question about Chinese manufacturing - Věda a technologie
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.
Glow licences the design and manufacturing from the Korean company SMDV
Always great to hear your take! Think the mount is ‘FM’ 🙌
Nice. Thk you.
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.
The one that comes first to mind is the Nanlite Forza 60c. Its fresnel has that M or FM or mini-Bowens mount. The other way to go is the Dedo or Dedo-like set up where you don’t need an add-on fresnel, but have the internal lensing and internal spot/flood, like the Dedolight Neo or Aputure 60d or 60x. The Aputure 60d/x are not CRMX/DMXable, but have good output and a handy battery option.
@@meetthegaffer Much obliged. I already have a 60w COB led with a Bowens M mount, but it only included a reflector, so I can't get a decent spotted beam out of it. Since it has a built-in battery, it could be as handy as the Colbor unit, but only if I can find the right modifier. I did just find that SmallRig makes a full size to mini bowens adapter...so that's probably the route I'll take. Regardless, I always appreciate your input and your reviews. Keep them coming!
@@AwesomeShotStudios you get a small to large adapter with the 60c, but it won’t work with the COLBOR unit, so it’s kinda hit or miss. Andrew’s review of the z had an adapter too that was not super compatible with modifiers from other manufacturers, so buyer beware! All the best out there😀
That might help on some shoot and run gigs I have coming..
Someone has responded that the battery doesn’t last. Will need to see if this is an anomaly or standard.
Yes please! Batterylife is crucial on powerless locations
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.
Oh! And same with the soft trolley cases. They might have different dimensions, colors, logos etc but they are clearly all coming from the same place.
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.
Right, I get that about the actual chips, but why are the actual designs, what I’m probably incorrectly calling form factor, so similar? And is anyone company the primary innovator or does everyone copy everyone else willy nilly?
@@meetthegaffer I think for similar designs it's probably a 3rd party factory that makes the design then sells it, that's the only explanation. Or patents are limited to actually insane innovations. Overall, it benefits us the consumers with better prices due to fierce competition, but probably puts other non-Chinese companies in a very hard position as well.
Where to buy🤗
www.colborlight.com/
Maybe start here?
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 have two of the 100x batteries and they are front to back garbage. Literally e-waste. They last maybe 20 minutes at 70% draw. The included small softbox with the 100x broke within a day as well.
Good feedback! I’ll see how it performs for me.
They have fixed this now , although of course it shouldn't have been a problem in the first place , the x60 batts are fine.