The LS 600 has been Aputure's most powerful unit for a few years, but now it adds flexibility to the table. The other day I was teaching a night exterior workshop and was all set up to have a backlight rigged on a 1.25K HMI with a generator. It's a pretty standard night exterior setup on lower-budget productions. Get the biggest HMI you can afford (18K on a big show, 4K on a medium show, and an M18 on a little show), put it as high in the air and as far back as you can, and get a little gentle backlight on your performers to help separate them out from the background. Unfortunately, the generator in this case needed oil. While someone went out to get some oil for the generator, I remembered I had just that morning received a demo unit of the new Aputure LS 600x Pro, and I thought, Well, it runs on batteries, so it'll work, let's try it. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 17 November, 2021