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When it comes to small LED lights, it’s pretty amazing what your money can buy these days. The number of features and low price points make LEDs an attractive option for production crews large and small. The FalconEyes F7 Pocketlite is a perfect example of an amazing LED light that’s packed with features. Let’s take a look at why you might want to fill your pockets with a few of these.
Easy of Use
The Falcon Eyes F7 is incredibly easy to operate. A power switch doubles as a menu button, where users can toggle between three different operation modes (CCT, HSI, and Scene Modes). Two wave wheel knobs can be used to dim light levels, adjust color temperatures, and jump between scene modes.
In CCT mode, you can dim the light from 0-100%, and make color temperature adjustments ranging from 2500k up to 9000k. HSI mode offers 360 hue options, each with adjustable levels for saturation and brightness ranging from 0-100. Scene mode provides 18 special effect scenarios, all of which are listed below.
Excellent Design
The F7 has a beautiful yet rugged design. With an integrated aluminium alloy fuselage magnetic body, there are plenty of opportunities to use it hands/light stand free. This light is incredibly useful when shooting in small spaces such as a car or any other location where you can’t fit a light stand. The back comes with a 1” OLED liquid crystal display, where all of the readouts are clearly displayed.
Take it Anywhere
One of the main selling points of these LED lights is the mobility factor. There’s a reason the word ‘pocket’ is in the name. The F7 is roughly the same size as my Nexus 6P mobile phone, and certainly fits comfortably in my pocket.
What I love most about these LED pocket lights is the internal battery. This little beast can run for two hours at its brightest level. A type-C standard USB charging interface at the top of the light supports QC3.0 fast charging, and works with external battery blocks. The light comes with a cold shoe tripod head, a universal magic bracket, as well as an optional honeycomb grid.
How to Use It
Enough about all of these features—how can you actually use this light on a shoot? I do a lot of interviews and broll-style video portraits, an environment where this light can be incredibly handy. You can follow Wipster’s 7 simple tips to shoot professional interviews and use the F7 for lighting.
Here are four examples of how you can use the F7 in this type of lighting scenario—
Fill Light
Back Light
Background Light
Rim Light
Special Effects
As mentioned before, the Falcon Eyes F7 has 18 Scene Modes. These allow users to quickly light a scene that would usually require a custom setup with multiple lights. Be sure to check out the video above for visual examples of each of the scene modes below
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Police Car
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Ambulance
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Fire Truck
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Lightning 1
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Lightning 2
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HSI Slow Gradient
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HSI Fast Gradient
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TV Screen
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Candle
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Paparazzi
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Strobe
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High and Low Beam
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Double Flash
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Red Flash
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Green Flash
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Blue Flash
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Party 1
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Party 2
All the specs
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LEDs: 96pcs x 0.5W RGB 54pcs x 0.5W White 54pcs x 0.5W Yellow Color
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Color Temperature: 2500K-9000K
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Color Control: 0-100% Stepless Dimming
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Output Power: 50W
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Operating Voltage: 5-15V/2A
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Beam Angle: 110°
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Package: Yes
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LUX 2500K: 0.3M 4060 / 0.5M 1250 / 1M 319 / 2M 85.7
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LUX 5500K: 0.3M 3730 / 0.5M 1180 / 1M 295 / 2M 78.8
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CRI: 2500K: 97 5500K: 92
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CRI: 9000K: 97W
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Battery Capacity: 7.4V/3000mAh
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Weight: 0.66lbs / 0.3kg
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Dimension(mm): 6.14x3.15x0.59in / 15.6x8x1.5cm
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