Best $500 Video Lighting Kit and What You Can Do With It
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- Check out the high quality video lighting kit I put together including everything you need to light videos for $500! 3 lights, stands, modifiers, batteries and more! Gear Used:
Aputure HR672S Kit
Amazon (PAID LINK): geni.us/aputure672s
B&H: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...
eBay: rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-532...
Aputure H198 (2x)
Amazon (PAID LINK): geni.us/h198
B&H: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...
eBay: rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-532...
2x Battery Kit on Amazon (PAID LINK): geni.us/npfbatteries
3x Light Stand Kit on Amazon (PAID LINK): geni.us/3neewerlightstands
Reflector + Reflector Holder Kit on Amazon (PAID LINK): geni.us/reflectorholder
Diffusion on Amazon (PAID LINK): geni.us/neewerdiffusion
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Hey Caleb, I love this video!
The only problem I have is that it's already 2019 and I'd like to see an updated version. A pinned comment with all of the changes would be enough in my opinion. ( I'm not the only one who is interested in an update )
Best regards
We are waiting for it
You definitively should do a 2019 version of these kits
Enzo Carlo Bianco 2020 extra quarantine version
UPDATE:
$250 Light Kit: ua-cam.com/video/YaDgRW5HCyI/v-deo.html
How I Use Backgrounds: ua-cam.com/video/jDbgnmYRjlM/v-deo.html&
As requested, I'll do a video on my backgrounds and two budget kit option videos: $250 and $150. Have a great day folks!
I use the Aputure 672 kit. It's not complete, so I bought the Manfrotto lights stands and a Manfrotto light stand adapters (Umbrella swivels). I'm really happy with the Aputure lights so far, except for the fact they get quite hot during shooting. Also, I have the 198 on-camera lights. Superb quality and it comes in a high-quality case.
DSLR Video Shooter Nice job, Caleb! I loved this video, but don't have that kind of budget. Waiting eagerly for cheaper cheaper alternatives
yeah do it please thank you so much
I vote for $1000 someday too! With the same goals of portability and flexibility, but assuming you are beyond beginner and ready to make a serious investment that will last years.
Meanwhile this particular video is great. I really appreciate all the practical information you include, and the way it is so clearly presented. Your videos are right up with the best in the photo video realm from what I've seen.
Tacking a question on - have you tried these type of lights with an umbrella softbox? I already have a couple and really like them for photo - Neewer makes really affordable ones, which I'm sure you are aware of.
totally agree with you
You never cease to impress, Caleb. I can't tell you how valuable your reviews and solutions are. I also love how you made great use of mixed color temperatures at the end. Very cool.
Thank you for the kind words Tony. Means a lot!
He's very calm and relays a ton of knowledge on his channel, no doubt about it!
This is the best video that I have seen you do yet. Understanding how you set up your different lighting rigs and seeing a whole complete set is super convenient
Honestly I can't thank you enough, your recent videos you've been posting have been what I need at the moment. Am getting ready for some interviews I will be doing and a majority of my research has been LED lighting, but this is super helpful. Again, thank you!
Thanks Dan! Makes my day to help other shooters out! Happy shooting.
Amazing! I've noticed the quality of lighting in your other posts and have been looking forward to you spilling the beans and showing us how to get such beautiful soft light
Very interesting thanks for this
I just bought yesterday a YN 600 air, after I saw how impressed you were with it in the 50$-100$ video, and I'm really happy with it, it looks beautiful. Thanks!
caleb: watching your videos is like doing homework. i take notes and watch it more than once! thanks professor!
One of your best and I like the way you bundled a suggested solution to a target dollar amount. Keep them coming.
This video was really helpful. I feel like lighting right now is one of my weaker subjects when it comes to making videos. Might just have to grab some of this kit! Thanks for making the video.
didn't expect to see you over here lol. Now I know your secret! Bwahahaha
Master of light - great job again Caleb!
Caleb, props to you for being one of the go-to sources I trust regarding gear for our company.
Caleb, I just wanted to let yo know that you are the reason i've decided to learn more about video. Thank you for every thing you do. You are appreciated.
Thank you for the kind words CoachMusic. Means a lot man!
It would be cool to do it again this year to see what lighting kits we can get today for $500 and how much improvement we have gained in about 4 years.
as someone who has difficulty lighting things properly this definitely helps show where I might need to invest in some better gear rather than going with a "that's good enough" solution. looking forward to your lighting kits on more of a budget!
You're my go-to channel now. Your videos are so well thought out and informative. You go in depth so everybody can understand. Plus you're just putting out great content, content that I actually give a shit about and is useful to me. I haven't found a channel so useful as I've found yours. Keep up the great work man.
Wow, that means a lot Anthony. Thank you for the kind words!
Exactly what I needed. I've been researching good lights especially for documentary and interviews. All your lighting videos have been on point. Thanks Caleb!
Thanks Landers. Happy to be of service!
Old video, I know, but wanted to say thanks for making this video. I'm teaming up this year with an excellent photographer for some very exciting business ventures and this video really helped me make decisions for my lighting kit! Love all the videos!
Caleb, I am so grateful for your videos. I have gotten quite an education the past couple of days. The short version of my story is that I am an amateur classical pianist and a friend of mine who is in film and TV recorded a solo performance of mine. I learned a lot of what to do and what not to do from him. Live classical performances are definitely not his thing. I'm looking at the $500 (or the $250) for a couple of reasons. First the raised piano lid provides a natural barrier so I was thinking of the larger panel to spot from the end toward me. The other two would be on either side of me. Not sure where, exactly. There is plenty of overhead lighting on the stage, so that is not a problem. I need to handle ugly shadows that one sees all the time in piano videos, and provide a decent spot that doesn't wash me out. I will be recording with a few HD cameras. If you or anyone in this discussion has some experience in this I'd love to hear about it.
this is a great video. really appreciate the quality of these lighting videos. i have been looking for reviews on some of these and all the reviews are just people messing around with the lights and not showing them in a useful situation. but all your light reviews look fantastic and show results. i really want to try this setup at work!
Instead of Apurture HR672 I got YN600L as a Keylight and rest I purchased from your list and It worked out quite well for the photoshoot and Interviews! Thanks Caleb!
Thanks for making this one buddy. Extremely helpful. Doing the community a big favor.
The Two lights / One stand trick. Brilliant!
Just picked up an a6500, can't wait for your review and guide! I'm buying that guide asap!
Nice! Such a great camera.
one of my favorite faces on the internet. wholesome and hella informative.
Please do an audio kit $250- $500
It would be greatly appreciated :)
Great videos btw!
Will do!
Just finished the video. Thank you for replying and taking my idea into consideration! Fantastic quality as always!
Thank you thank you thank you. This is such a timely and useful video. I'm starting up a shop here in Indy and badly need something budget but yet highly effective. This hits the spot. I'm gonna have to figure out a way to scrounge up $500. Maybe stop eating at McDonald's for a little bit 😏 but it's such a doable goal. Many thanks sir.
When I get "DSLR Video Shooter uplouded a video" notification...
I just f*** off everthing and everyone to start watching your new vid!
Thanks again for putting the time. I really learn a lot from your channel!
Looking forward for your next video.
Haha! Thanks Tqa!
Thanks for the helpful videos Caleb! One of the best Filmmaking channels! :)
That's my lighting kit precisely! I guess I got it right lol. Love your content, man! You rock!
Very useful video Caleb. Makes me want to build a new lighting kit.
You deserve 100,000 more followers. Great vid for us little people. Thank you!!!
That was one of the most informative videos I have ever watched. Brilliant stuff man. Also, took ur advice on the best lights under 50 buck and bought two.
Thanks man!
Terrific content, another great video. now i need to take a class with you as i realise how much there is to learn. Please keep up the good work.
Thank you! Means a great deal to know people are being helped through my videos.
Another great video - building up my new kit with your help. Keep the excellent videos coming!
Fantastic video, excellent low budget kit yet professional small kit!
This man is a wizard - 500 and these shots look amazing!! Im going to get some of this kit for my self coming up in the new year and its going to send my prodiction quality through the roof!! Thanks for all the info.
Thanks for doing such great product reviews that also illustrate practical applications!
Thanks Mike!
Foam boards are fantastic to use when taking pictures of glass / bottles. Put the glass on a piece of reflective material, have to foam boards with the black side on both sides of the glass, and aim the light at the background.
Hey man really love your content! Its very helpful and I've watched a lot of your videos and bought 2 of your guides!
Thanks for the support KDE! Glad you are enjoying the guides and videos!
Great job as always. Super helpful information. Great job Caleb.
Great Video! All good ideas! Way to be creative with a budget setup!
my lord... your videos are crazy valuable and informative. Im so friggin subbed forever man...
Great walkthrough - clearly spoken and very informative! Big thumbs up from here! ;-) I wonder how much your kit would end up costing me in Denmark... Looking forward to the next kit presentations
Omg thank you so very much for this! It's so difficult to browse what lights are the best bang for the buck since there are tons of them. Thank you thank you thank you!
Thanks for watching Matt!
I've bought some of those no name cheap NPF and they work great, last long. They do take a while to charge back up with the cheap included charger
awesome man... video are looking even slicker... giddy up !!!
I'm basically buying this kit slowly. :) thank you so much for this video.
Great information. In the future, could you give your iso/exposure settings for the lights. This would be appreciated.
Love your videos! I learn so much every time!
Awesome video thanks so much! Love this channel, so useful and refreshing video style
Another great video! I know they're in different price brackets, but I'd love to see a comparison of the YN-600 to the Amaran 672S!
As someone who is starting to look into expanding my gear without a huge budget, this video is amazing! Do sound next! Also maybe a lenses?
Thanks Axel!
Hi Caleb. love your work could you do a 1000 dollar setup?
Thank you for producing such helpful videos
So this set up works in a studio setting- where the room is totally blacked out and you can get the lights really close to your subject. I'd love to see a vid of what you use and how you set up in the field. Especially if you can't black out the room or have limited space. Thanks!
great video! always quality content, I like what you are doing a lot!
Caleb my man thank you so much. I've been looking for a kit lighting wise.
you da real MVP!
Aw shucks! Thanks Kenny!
DSLR Video Shooter No my good sir, thank you. You're content is A1. 👍
*blushes
Wow!! Thank you for creating this video! Awesome help!!
Great Video Buddy !little thing I like is to use the adapters for npf batteries and some ikea batteries. im canadian dollars you pay about 10$ for the box and 10$ for 6 AA 2500mah ikea batteries ( apparently they are eneloop rebrands ) NPF 550 are about 25$ here so you can save some money and get more AA to swap em in !
Hey, this was a really great and informative video! Thanks Caleb.
I would like to see you exploring the potential of this channel and by that I don't mean to drift away from your DIY content or these so much needed tests. No other channel covers these little things that are so important and often overlooked by others lost in just camera comparisons.
But that said, I would like to see you doing some more camera reviews and comparisons, trying to talk with B&H or Adorama to get some review units. I would love to see your take and tests on that, which would also help your channel grow, attract more audience because the people that watch the camera tests will certainly appreciate this other content that you are doing.
I basically follow every photo/video channel I can find out there and your channel is the only one I truly enjoy, you don't rush to be trendy, your videos have content and well thought tests and comparisons. I think your DIY skillset gives you an interesting POV and technical background that some others don't have.
Tony and Chelsea, Dave, Max Yuriev, etc. They can't quite top your content, at times their tests and comparisons either lack methodology or depth. Sometimes it's the lack of technical information to do a proper explanation and tests, other times it's because the content is rushed to be one of the first to talk about something or do some comparisons. A lot of people might not mind but I think that I would rather have a great well thought content that I can learn from rather than keep perpetuating little mistakes that will end up being replicated more and more.
But this is not to punish mistakes or that I don't enjoy their content, everyone can make mistakes but at some level, I started to expect a bit more, I expect to learn more than correcting little mistakes, even more so when it happens for either lack of research, for rushing things or for getting into camera speculation without little sense of reality. I know, I'm those that set the bar high but I do so because I want to see them grow and grow together but I can't fully enjoy when I see some of these things.
Again, I'm not here to badmouth anybody, otherwise I wouldn't follow their content, but I can see the growth potential of your channel if you bring just a bit more of camera reviews and I think you can set a new standard for camera comparisons and tests.
Thanks!
Thanks for the feedback! I would love to do more camera reviews, but they take a lot of time and that would lower my video output. I also need to come up with more subject matter. I'm mostly a studio shooter which makes for boring content. Need to book some trips with cameras :-)
+DSLR Video Shooter I don't think people think it's boring, it's just not as appealing for a general public, on the other hand this content is very needed and appreciate by anyone getting more serious into vide production and it's something that you can't really find out there with the same level of details and depth.
But yeah, I understand it's not easy to fit the UA-cam production output and balance that with in-depth time consuming reviews. But either way, I think there might be a way, sure, it would be challenging and you'll need to try different ways but even if it's half-vlog, half-review, there mighr be ways that you can get into that a bit. I mean, some cameras you don't have to go as in-depth as others or maybe you can have a video just to compare cameras to complement the reviews instead of making comparisons and tests in every review.
I also understand that being one-man crew it becomes even harder but I think that there might be an interesting solution out there to try. Maybe even do some user experience shorts while you are on production, I don't know.
Hello, I find your videos absolutely interesting, clear, honest and precise. Could you please make a video of your mic set up for this kind of videos? Thanks!
Awesome tutorial and recommendations Caleb. We just purchased these lights, 3 of them.
Any recomendations on a case for all 3?
Solid tutorial, as always. Thank you for these highly informative videos Caleb :)
Thanks Jonwie!
Looking forward to some other cheaper kits - great video, as always! You're one of the only YTer's that actually puts out quality content...lots of people just put out repetitive stuff lol
Do you have any idea as to when you'll get your hands on a GH5? That camera looks so awesome :)
Man so much cool stuff going on in this video.
Placed an order through your link. Thanks for the review!
Thank you so much for doing this, Caleb!
I just made this purchase. You're awesome!
biggest challenge for me is shaping the light in tight spaces and being portable. I ended with 2x 672's and a H198 for my kit. used D-fuse softboxes but still too harsh for my liking. added grids but that cut the light down too much. I might look into Came-tv boltzen or aputure COB lights so I can throw proper modifiers on it.
I really like the different lighting setups. I wish there were just endless Pro videos on lighting. I feel like it's something that so many videographers miss, but it's imperative for making cinematic and pro footage.
Good stuff, as always. I bought all of my "budget" LED lights prior to your series, but fortunately I made the right choices based on your findings haha. My next project I am hoping to get the wireless HDMI setup for monitoring. Keep up the great work
Thanks Brandon!
I'm still rocking this kit.
This is really great, your recent videos are spot on with what I wished I had found a couple of years ago when I started doing research for the other no so glamorous equipment for a small production.
Right now I'm thinking about a YN600, YN300 and 2x YN216. I also have a YN600 Air, so I just need the 2x YN216 that I got to know from a recent video of yours. I have a few different size 5-in-1 kits and the diffuser material as well. I also have some normal fluorescent lights with Japanese lantern or for a lightbox I have, which is pretty good for product shot.
I would like to ask you to put eBay links of the same or similar item because people outside US can't get the Amazon ones. My major issue is battery, which can be very tricky, the difference between a good and a bad one is night and day, in terms of accurate specs, charge, quality, everything.
So it would be good to know which brands are trustworthy or not. When I can and someone is travelling through US I always buy and ask them to bring those DSTE batteries but I don't quite know which one to trust on eBay. A lot of the good ones from Amazon are not always there on eBay as well.
Another great video! I loved it and definitely thinking about grabbing this kit! I did have a question in your Favorite Gear of 2016 video didn't you say you had a Hackintosh build video coming and is that still something you're working on? If so I'm pumped for it!
That was immensely informative, well done and thanks!
Great kit👍🏼
Great video👍🏼
Man, I'm equally amazed each time, you deliver these "price range" videos in some 10-15 mins and God knows how much research you need to do, prepare, structure it, shoot the video, edit... Thank you so very much for the effort. I've bought your guides and I recommend your channel everywhere, I hope you'll never get tired of this haha! Thanks!!
Very nice. How about reviewing cases or packs to store and transport all of this gear. I already have a backpack for my camera gear, trying to figure out how to lug around the light kit as well. Thanks!
This is great! Going to pick up a few of these items.
Purely worth it.
Great value for the time.
Thank you for the video man ; ]
Awsome Video! Helps a lot! Lookig forwoard seeing the cheaper setups ^^
Yay new video!!! Thank you Caleb.
Thanks Ry!
Wow this is very helpful! Thanks, Caleb.
Thanks Ryan!
Love your work. Thank you for the insight!
Hello Caleb, great video! I think I've watched it 5 times already. I bought the HR672S and I believe it's an amazing light, but when I went to buy the AL-H198 I saw that they didn't provide a power cable and totally turned me off. Do you think two AL-528 will work instead? Also, since the 672 is Spot, should the others be Wide?
Hi Caleb! Great video. I mainly shoot talking head interviews. Would you recommend the S or W version of the HR672 for that purpose?
These videos are amazing, love how you're so knowledgeable and practical all at the same time!
I am buying some of these lights as well, do I go through this UA-cam to make sure you get a commission?
Also the led you used as the key light for this video with the diffusion material, could you use the Yongnuo YN600 instead since it has a built in diffuser? Or is the output really low?
Ha! This is my exact current light setup! (i use Rosco diffusion the 'filmmakers diffusion pack') and scrims from Matthews. I love it,was trying to save up to get the Aputure tri8's when they come out until I saw the new HeloLux lights.... I've decided to spring for those instead of getting more aputure lights. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE aputure and their lights they're so affordable... but man the HeloLux is just too good a deal for what you get. Thanks for this Caleb, good to know I actually had a decent setup haha right off the bat.
Nice! Yeah those Hexolux lights had me drooling when their first came out. Much to rich for my blood though. Hot ass light for sure!
Great setup! I've been thinking about getting some new lights soon
Very nice video, thank you! Can't wait for your SONY a9 review btw :D
Thanks! I bought almost everything on this list!
I am going to buy this kit . thanks. awesome video.
great release! Wait a new video, with light practice kit.
Awesome video and well done! Looks like really nice lights. How would those lights work as fill outside? Sometimes I shoot over an overhang by the background is blow out. Do they have enough output to balance? Thanks!
Nice video Caleb! Thanks!
Awsome video! Like always! :D
Great one! Really helpful!
This is awesome, Do you have any sort of recommendations for lighting that you can take on the go. I've been really interested in trying to take one big bag for all my gear including a dslr and a few lens, and some audio equipment as well