Kino Flo Diva-Lite 401 Kit Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,820 words · ~9 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at what is apparently sort of some kind of
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voodoo magic when it comes to uh when it comes to consistent lighting that we can
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use in the studio and carry around with us so this is the kinof flow Diva light
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kit 401 which comes in an awesome carrying
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case so I can already see that so we're going to go ahead and uh wow
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this is cool you should come check this out you can't even move can you there's
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stuff all over the floor cameraman can hardly see what he's doing and where
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he's going so it comes in like a oh I was going to say briefcase but if your
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brief case looks like this you're doing it wrong this is more like luggage so
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we've actually got two of these there's another one right over there and uh I'm
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only going to unbox one of them for now but this is to go along with all of the
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new Linus Tech tips Gear in including our fs700 camera our new tripod it's all
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kind of there there's an HDMI cable that's sort of special as well and uh oh
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it comes with a stand oh I failed I actually bought stands for these but
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they come with them so cameraman's giving me that look like uh you know
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what what are you doing over there what are you doing and I don't have a good
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answer for him so here's the stand that comes with the kit I should have known
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something that's like a kit would come with a with stand but I did not I did
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not realize that so there we go that goes down there the whole thing goes
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kind of down to the bottom and then you can oh no I think St is wide enough
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there we go that's more like what we're trying to do here I don't know what
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we're trying to do here there we go so this needs to go at the bottom and then
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this we want nice and wide so that it won't go anywhere okay so I don't know
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how high these stands are the other ones I got are like 9 ft or something like
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that so let's find out how tall they are
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oh yeah these are pretty tall
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okay so these kinof flows use Banks of
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uh Banks of very consistent Lighting in order to get lighting effects that are
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well very consistent and very even and
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uh they don't change in color temperature over time like uh like the
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more traditional incandescent do you can easily put gels over them in order to
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change the quality of the color ah look at that it comes with a carrying case
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that is suitable for here we go I'm just going to reach over here suitable for
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the kinof flow true match lights that
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you also need to go with them so I got eight of those 55 watt
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bulbs and you can probably just put the
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whole package in here no you can't really they want you to open the package
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well fortunately we're good at that on this channel although I'm a little bit
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worried I don't want to touch them or anything I don't know if these are the
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uh kinds of bulbs that you're not allowed to touch oh that's okay they
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have plastic pieces on the ends no big deal all right so these can go in here
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where they will be safe and they can be transported that way awesome so you can
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store up to 1 2 3 4 5 six in this little
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carrying case that's made of like corrugated plastic so it'll be quite a
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bit more durable than if they gave you a cardboard one so we'll go ahead and put
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that back in there okay here's some kind of adapter
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hoo-ha oh okay this is likely something to do with uh yes so this is for
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mounting at different angles and it comes in a really they put it in a
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Ziploc bag and then they tape over the zip looc so it's like okay thank you I
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suppose it's quite difficult to open there we go okay so this looks like it's
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for changing the angle so you can put this on the top and then you can kind of
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have it sort of mve like that that's my guess anyway I'm just guessing right now
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fig robust feeling though okay let's go ahead and put that
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back in there so our true match light we can put away for
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now operation manual here is the ligh
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housing itself so for the value price of
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only so 2 foot 4 Bank full what's in
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here oh okay so here's a diffuser comes with that so for the value price of only
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like $1,500 you can get yourself a kof flow
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Diva light and uh if that doesn't seem like a good
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idea to you then you also don't have to you know I'm not pressuring you or
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anything that's not what this channel is about pressuring people to buy things
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but I'm definitely excited to see what
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kind of results we can achieve with these these new lighting kits and all
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that so let's go ahead that out so it's not that heavy
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actually I mean it's not light but well
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it is a light but it's not light um all right so it comes with
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built-in built-in shutters which are on oh that's kind of
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neat they're just on like tensioned um like metal pieces here so
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they're quite flexible so you can play around with where you want them to go
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it's uh it's a little bit directional but you can get an adapter that will
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make it more directional if you should so desire uh this piece comes off quite
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easily with velcro so you just remove all the velcros and you can move that to
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install lights or take it off or do whatever it is you want to do I'm guess
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this evens things out a little bit it takes four bulbs total so once you yeah
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turn off power to change lamps do not operate fixture on the back yeah so you
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don't want to uh basically you don't want to open up any of the internal
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power supply stuff that's going on in here and then this piece can let's see
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if that can yeah there we go so that's a ball and socket piece right there so you
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can tighten that up once you've got it positioned exactly where you want it and
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then this can mount onto probably this
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piece here to achieve a straight
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up Mount this thing's actually quite heavy
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I'm making this look easy cuz I'm so buff but uh I'm not making it look easy
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at all am I okay well whatever this would go in there and it would secure if
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I could get it open wide enough give me a sec all right so we installed four Banks
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of Lights which which is a total of eight tubes here and then this is this
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is the gel holder so this piece is just you know it's actually cameraman and I
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were both noticing that it's it's kind of ghetto actually the whole
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construction of it like it's made of like corrugated plastic and like just
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piece of like laser cut you know metal
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and like velcro straps for things I
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guess it's expensive because it's a specialized piece of equipment but I
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still would have uh would have liked to see sort of the you know the
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craftsmanship that goes into it be a little bit more impressive but uh you
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know so there's the blinders oh yeah I want to show you the side of the unit really quick first before I turn it on
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here so I've got it attached to the stand that came with um we didn't end up
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needing this for anything so I guess this one would allow you to have a
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little bit more flexibility in terms of what you're doing but we'll be using it
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in a studio environment for lus Tech tips so there you go comes with a
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built-in dimmer so I'm going to leave it at the dimmest to start there's also a
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remote dimmer as well but we won't be using that at the start uh you can over
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here is selectable so you can change you can either fire up two lamps at a time
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or four lamps at a time the switch right there there's also what appears to be
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some kind of a fuse or switch for 120 volt versus 230 volt operation so let's
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start with two lamps and full dimness just so that we don't sort of
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break anything and Diesel informs me that I'm supposed to say striking before
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I turn on the light so striking okay that's uh not doing a
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whole lot so let's go ahead and uh change to uh change to four lamps here
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there we go you also don't have to deal with the warmup times that are typical
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of uh oh wait no you probably do have to do I don't know whatever the lighting is
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supposed to be consistent with this thing does it look very
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bright my hand is more lit I suppose let's turn her
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up okay we're about halfway okay we're about 3/4 of the way
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there we go so now we have what is
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apparently very natural very sunlight looking Studio so you guys will have to
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tell me here hold on let me just reposition this a little
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bit do I look do I look beautiful to you
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does this work are we good how's my shirt look we good we cool we can do
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that you know gels directionality so we have two of them we'll probably need
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more at some point but uh you know for now two is hopefully enough
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thanks for checking out my unboxing and first look at the kenlow diva light
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