Aputure LS-1C LED Panel Review1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLED lighting technology keeps getting better and Aputure’s new LS-1 LED panel incorporates useful features and employs an innovative lensing. But does its performance bring it to the head of its class? When Aputure first released the LS-1 LED panel, it was one of very many similar things, especially if we consider a variety of price points. That’s still true now, of course. LED panels are probably one of the most prolifically-produced lighting instruments ever, perhaps because the prototypical way of producing them remains a simple printing of a circuit board, which can be manufactured by practically every electronics plant in the world. (And boy, have they.) The challenge for anything in this field is simply to differentiate itself from the competition.
Aputure’s panel is of fairly traditional construction, using an array of 5mm LEDs that initially seem like a straightforward approach, but create a type of light that wasn’t available before, at least not in such a small package. Placing tiny, individualised lenses on the front of every emitter produces a sort of projecting soft-light that’s perhaps most like the output from a very physically large tungsten fresnel ““ a 5K, maybe ““ in character, although naturally much less powerful. This is a characteristic of LED panels that was largely overlooked when they first became available, but which can save a certain amount of flagging and rigging.
via: RedSharkNews
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