I saw no weird green or magenta shift that some cheap-o LED panels still produce. As for CRI, Litepanels doesn’t have a number to report just yet, but I compared a Chroma Du Monde chart lit by both the Astra and a Dedo tungsten light, and wasn’t able to spot appreciable shift in particular colors. Each gel set lists for about $180, and includes a bag.
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If you need to warm or cool the light further, Litepanels sells a collection of CTO and CTB gel panels in quarter, half and full strengths that are specifically tuned for the light’s LED panel. By turning the bi-color dial in just slightly, I was able to hit more conventional 32 kelvin settings, but the Astra is sufficiently accurate in its warm/cool range. I’m used to the light from 1×1 LEDs getting swallowed up in anything but the shadiest of shade, but the Astra can definitely make an appreciable dent in brighter situations.Īs for color fidelity, I found that my Canon C300’s white balance measured the warmest setting on the Astra’s bi-color dial at 3000 kelvin, and the coolest setting at 5800 kelvin. Secondly, the Astra can actually add decent fill when you’re shooting outside in daylight. I pointed the Astra into the ceiling to noticeably bring up the overall level of the entire room. One example: I was shooting an interview in a room with shady, ambient daylight coming in through a couple of windows. So the Astra was more than two stops brighter than my previous go-to LEDs, which let me do things I could never do with the other 1×1 panels. The Astra measured f11.6 in full daylight mode, while the old-school Daylight Flood model hit f5.6, and my high-quality clone came in at f5.6 4/10s.
To help quantify that, I used my light meter to measure the Astra’s output from about 5 feet, comparing it to two other 1×1 panels I had laying around - one was an older Litepanels 1×1 Daylight Flood, and the other was a third party bi-color knock-off that was nonetheless high quality and a good match for Litepanels’ pre-Astra bi-color models. At full power, the Astra sucks up 100 watts and puts out the equivalent of a 1000-watt tungsten light. What I’m most enthusiastic about is the Astra’s sheer output. It’s easily the best 1×1 panel I’ve come across. After Litepanels founded the genre, a lot of companies followed its lead with cheaper - and, more lately, competent clones - but the $1350 Astra raises the bar again with dual daylight/tungsten LEDs, high-powered output, DMX expandability and a nice ecosystem of light-shaping accessories. The Litepanels Astra is the next-generation 1×1 LED light from the company that invented the first generation.
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