Noah Yuan-Vogel
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Lupo Superpanel appears to just be their version of an astra. Their website seems pretty sketchy saying their 38W panel is equivalent to a 700W tungsten light when I'm sure it would be a miracle if it was more powerful than 250W of tungsten.
17000lux at 1m doesn't seem all that impressive since it's only about 50% brighter than an Astra, and more likely it just has a narrower beam angle that focuses the light into a smaller more intense pool of light.
There haven't been any big improvements in LEDs so far, they still have to large cooling and housings to compete with small HMIs, and these new panels that are 2-3x as bright as the original LED panels are still about 2x the size and weight of the originals anyway, so not much of a gain really. Still seems like 98% of LED lights out there are still <200W and even a 400W HMI replacement is still hard to find.
I see the main improvement being led strips and ultra thin flexible led panels like the westcott flex since they really capitalize on how thin and large LED units can be. Maybe soon if we want an 1.8k daylight 8x8' booklight we'll be able to just roll out a LED panel with ultrasoft diffusion and have the whole thing be almost as compact as the diffusion we used to put on the front of a booklight. Except that there will always have to be a pretty large DC converter even if the LED rag only needs 1/4-1/2 the power of the M18...
17000lux at 1m doesn't seem all that impressive since it's only about 50% brighter than an Astra, and more likely it just has a narrower beam angle that focuses the light into a smaller more intense pool of light.
There haven't been any big improvements in LEDs so far, they still have to large cooling and housings to compete with small HMIs, and these new panels that are 2-3x as bright as the original LED panels are still about 2x the size and weight of the originals anyway, so not much of a gain really. Still seems like 98% of LED lights out there are still <200W and even a 400W HMI replacement is still hard to find.
I see the main improvement being led strips and ultra thin flexible led panels like the westcott flex since they really capitalize on how thin and large LED units can be. Maybe soon if we want an 1.8k daylight 8x8' booklight we'll be able to just roll out a LED panel with ultrasoft diffusion and have the whole thing be almost as compact as the diffusion we used to put on the front of a booklight. Except that there will always have to be a pretty large DC converter even if the LED rag only needs 1/4-1/2 the power of the M18...
