The new amaran 2ft (T2c) and 4ft (T4c) tube lights by Aputure are here, and they come with a new feature that makes them stand out from the rest of the tube light crowd: locking external batteries. I took these new lights for a spin over several weeks, and here’s my full review. There’s been a long-running joke on the Aputure User Facebook Group that the most-oft-requested Aputure fixture of a “tube light” is one of the few lighting products Aputure just wasn’t going to make. What a difference a few years of asking make. The Aputure tube light is finally here, and, in a twist, it isn’t branded “Aputure” at all but is branded under the more prosumer-focused “amaran” name. Image Credit: Graham Sheldon As to why the Aputure team branded the new tube light under “amaran”, this was the response from Brandon Le, Product Marketing Manager: 1) This is our first venture in the Tube market, and we wanted to first open this form factor up to the amaran brand to grow the ecosystem for our prosumer users.2) Making this an amaran-centric product allows us to target these products to a more price-conscious consumer.3) This product doesn’t have some features that we would need to integrate in order to brand it an Aputure product, such as LumenRadio CRMX, Waterproofing, and potentially other features.Brandon Le – Product Marketing Manager, Aputure As a professional user of various higher-end Aputure products ranging from their 1200d Pro (check out my review here)...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 31 March, 2022