The daylight 300D MK II is a welcome improvement over Aputure’s first generation of COB (chip-on-board) lights and it fills one huge gap for LED lights in general. I spent several weeks putting the new light through a variety of field shooting situations. The full review is below: The 300D MK II on the beach with the Fresnel 2X attachment. We first heard about the 300D MK II at NAB earlier in the year, and even then it was clear that Aputure was working hard to address some of the criticism from the first 300D. If you’ve visited the Aputure user group on Facebook, you’ll find a vocal community whose concerns and feedback are seemingly taken very seriously by the company they patronize. In short, the new 300D MK II is a significant improvement and it feels like the community had a hand in assisting with the design to some extent. I love when I see a manufacturer listening to their users and I hope that mentality spreads to other manufacturers when possible. The 300D MK II with Fresnel 2 providing a sunny early morning source on a shaded side of a house. Image Credit: Graham Sheldon For this review, I used the light on the first season of an upcoming unannounced TV show, a music video, and a product commercial. This amounted to several weeks of time with the 300D MK II and I tried everything I could think of to break it short of flinging it onto cement. My...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 29 August, 2019