Gaffer & Gear 269 Amaran Spotlight SE 

Nobody on RU-vid does an as honest and thorough review as Andrew here.. Most of my purchases in the past years have come from, or are considered due to his reviews... This review has an added value to me personally as I have the Nanlite setup he uses as a comparison, and I am happy for that as I have Nanlite and Aputure lights, but not tried the Amaran range

I’m glad you do these product reviews so consistently. I know you probably don’t make much outside of free products you get, but man if someone got paid to do this full time to review lights; your straight forward efficient method is so underrated. But also that comes from your experience in the field as a long time gaffer using stuff like this. Good stuff as always. Love the review, love Aputure, good optics, mediocre output. I understand making clean optics with high output is probably akin to making fast camera lenses that are super clean. Making things much less affordable on this scale. Compromises…

I own a 36 deg bundle and the Spotlight SE is a compromised product for sure. The usage is fairly limited but compact enough to fit in my case as a grab & go lighting accessory. Nice review, Andrew!

Great episode, very comprehensive and answers a lot of questions I had 💯

Very good review! 👍 I have owned the DP400 projection attachment from Dedolight for many years and am still very happy with it.

Nice. I'll keep this in mind. The color distribution and sharp edges for a light I already have is hard to beat.

Thanks for the excellent review Andrew! I appreciate your continuing honesty and ethics around these reviews. It's super helpful to see how you review the forza projection system compared to this unit, your standardisation of these videos is really helpful for that comparison!

the nanlite 150D + spotlight mount is still my favorite combination for small team setup. just incredible light output on this little footprint

Got one and love it, easier than the bigger Spotlight

0:50 - THANK YOU for stating this free of charge gift. Many Yourube "reviewers" don't do this believe it or not!!!!

Used a couple of these on an indie earlier this year. Idk if anyone else does this, but i added 1/4 CTO gel on top of settimg the light to 3200 kelvin. The film took place in the early eighties in Manchester and the p300 alone looked 'thin' to the DP. We played around a bit and found 1/4 cto on top of tungsten setting was the "difference between water color and oil" according to him. Anyhow, i liked the light weight and super easy use of these. Will be sticking with my 600Cs though😅

The color accuracy on these 300c are immaculately well tuned. I doubt that after all that tuning and effort they messed up by making the Tungsten mode different than 3200k. Your DP was very likely expiercing a placebo effect.

This review is as scientific as it gets. Thank you for your time and effort. I am surprised that it’s not as bright as the nanlite counterpart.

36 deg is on my wish list :D

I actually took my dremel to the side of the mount to get rid of those bumps. Now I have more precision when tightening the knobs.

I was looking at this because my 60C with the 19 inch spot often lacks just a little output.. To learn that it is actually brighter than the 300c with the 19 inch spotlight is just crazy to me

You should keep those none dmx aputure fixtures because the Sidus one will probably replace your exalux. You’ll be able to control both bluetooth and crmx in Sidus Link

Taking your point about the spotlight being tuned for the Amaran lights, would i be wasting my time putting this on an Aputure 120D or 60D?

Not sure if you mentioned it but will this work with the Nanlite 300B's?