Best LED Lighting Kit 2018

[Zeb B]

In the market for a LED light kit to replace my Hexolux. Would like to get a consensus on what you guys feel is the best of this:
1. High CRI - no weird color spikes
2. Color Mixing a plus
3. Profoto light modifier front diameter a plus
4. Portable / battery option
5. High output
6. Weatherproof

I was looking at the Fiilex 360 Pro Plus kit. Thots?
http://fiilex.com/products/Lighting_Kits_201PP.php

 

[Phil Holland]

Aloha, I'm back in LA and have been doing a great deal of lighting related tests in the last 3 years with some of the newer goodies which led to a bunch of purchases on this front.

#1. A good healthy amount of the professional gizmos out there are now pretty solid on the CRI and more important other types of color metrics related to color accuracy.

#2. My main kit consists of Litepanels Gemini (I mean you can light your Gemini shots with Gemini lights, gotta be worth something) and several Hive Lighting Wasp C-100 and Hornet C-200 units. Just picked up the 200s, if I had to spin the dial back I'd probably go all 200s even. Also worth looking at Fiilex's latest offerings for color. I've tested the newer Matrix and their travel-minded fresnel and all that, pretty cool.

#3. That good old goofy ass rubber ring mount. Sounds like Hive is where you are aiming.

#4. A good deal of the LEDs on the market can be powered via battery.

#5. This is the tricky one for LEDs and multi-color LEDs. My Geminis are bloody bright and that's one of the reasons I love them. I have some Nila Boxers I whip out, but those are daylight only.

#6. Which brings back round to Nila as they have weather sealed models. But in reality since LEDs are so cool to run you can just bag them in a light or heavy rain. Just make sure the vents have airflow.

 

[Zeb B]

Aloha, I'm back in LA and have been doing a great deal of lighting related tests in the last 3 years with some of the newer goodies which led to a bunch of purchases on this front.

#1. A good healthy amount of the professional gizmos out there are now pretty solid on the CRI and more important other types of color metrics related to color accuracy.

#2. My main kit consists of Litepanels Gemini (I mean you can light your Gemini shots with Gemini lights, gotta be worth something) and several Hive Lighting Wasp C-100 and Hornet C-200 units. Just picked up the 200s, if I had to spin the dial back I'd probably go all 200s even. Also worth looking at Fiilex's latest offerings for color. I've tested the newer Matrix and their travel-minded fresnel and all that, pretty cool.

#3. That good old goofy ass rubber ring mount. Sounds like Hive is where you are aiming.

#4. A good deal of the LEDs on the market can be powered via battery.

#5. This is the tricky one for LEDs and multi-color LEDs. My Geminis are bloody bright and that's one of the reasons I love them. I have some Nila Boxers I whip out, but those are daylight only.

#6. Which brings back round to Nila as they have weather sealed models. But in reality since LEDs are so cool to run you can just bag them in a light or heavy rain. Just make sure the vents have airflow.

Dang you fast! Bet I just missed a GB on the Hive Hornet 200-C . . . those look pretty sic

Edit: Yup
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?170065-GROUP-BUY-Hive-200-C