LED Lighting?

[NickM713]

Hi guys. I'm a filmmaker that currently shoots with dslrs (Canon t2i & 7D) and i'm looking into purchasing my own lighting kit to light some of my future projects (and slowly move away from renting and borrowing from my friends). I was looking into LEDs because they don't overheat, more lightweight, and generally don't use a lot of power. Any suggestions?

[Paulio]

Depends what you are shooting. I have access to a bunch of arri lights through work and often loan them for personal work, then once on set reflectors, diffusion and a cheapo set of daylight softboxes I got from amazon end up doing all the work.

 

Full disclosure, I havn't used LEDs and hear they are great. one Arri7 led light costs nearly 3k though....

[NickM713]

I've done some work with Arri lights before and they are amazing lights! Had to borrow them a couple of times. I was also looking into the Arri LED lights on B&H. Unfortunately, they are really expensive and don't quite fit in my budget at the moment. 

 

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?sts=ma&N=0&Ntt=arri+led

 

An acquaintance of mine also recommended that I check out the ikan led lights and told me there was a sale going on. Hm... are these a good lights to go with?

 

http://ikancorp.com/promotion.php?event=WEEKLYSALE

[jgharding]

I've used cheap ebay panels and LitePanels alike. 

 

Both have a magenta or green hue. The more expensive ones tend to be more consistent, think Komputerbay cards, the cheap ones are a gamble.

 

That said I mixed cheap and expensive on a recent shoot and it's fine. I think the cheap ones are great to start with. Also daylight is yur friend.