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Hi, I'm Dustin Abbott and there's a good chance that if I was coming up your drive and I was
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carrying this, you would think I was some kind of traveling salesman. But instead, I'm here to talk
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to you about a product that if you like to shoot things like product photography, maybe food
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photography, even some macro work, this is something that you, like myself, might find
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very, very useful. This is from the manufacturer Angler, and this is an LED light tent, portable
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light tent. And so before we jump into that, I'm just going to pull a few of the things out of an
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outside mesh pocket. There is a diffuser here, instruction booklet that came in the box, and then
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there are some electrical components here and so we will just quickly assemble these two things
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and so we're ready to plug it all in when we get it assembled
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Okay and so with those things out of the pocket you have what is you know fairly large in terms
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of going across but it's only about an inch inch and a half thick here and so you have something
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that is actually very easy to store but is surprising how useful that it is. And so through
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the use of Velcro, we'll just start to lay things out here so that we can take a look
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at that. And so we have a few different components that are a main part of the setup here. And
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so there are some panels that we can stand up and we'll just, I'll quickly assemble those
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three together here and then I'll turn it and so you can see a look so all of these have just velcro
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that attaches on the corners easy to set up there and then once you have established that you've got
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a reflective surface inside you've got this kind of cubed shape here there's another component that
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comes as a part of that and if you look inside as I fold this further down right now there is a background that is set up but there is actually a total of four different options that are included There is a white there is a black there is a kind of a
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medium gray that's going to give you a very nice white balance, and then even a green if you're
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wanting to do some chroma key work with it. And so here just for our sample purposes, I'm going to
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pull these others out and I'm just going to take out and then I'll just take out this white here and so all of these are they're actually a fairly
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heavy grade of material they're not a paper but I'm not exactly sure what the material is but it's
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very resistant to both wrinkling and it's certainly pretty much tear proof and so what you do with this
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is that you have on one end of it there are some uh there's velcro that will actually attach
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inside here so i'm just attaching that end and then on this opposite end there's actually a little
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kind of slot for that to be tucked under and once you have tucked all of that in you can then
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bring the top flap up like this and once again you use the velcro to attach up the sides
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and then once you've got all of that assembled you simply rotate everything over like this
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and then once that has been opened up then we can look inside and now we have a very white surface in here in which to put our products on
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to shoot now it gets even more interesting however i'm going to close that back for a moment
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as you remember we do have an actual power plug here and so the cool thing about this there is a
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plug here to tie into for that. And so I simply plug in that. I'm going to plug this into the wall
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Now there actually an actual power switch here And so you can switch it on and off I going to open that back up so you can see inside and then if I switch that on there actually some built LED lighting here that coming
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down from the top that fills that space up with light. Now if you find things a little bit too
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bright there is a diffuser that we saw earlier that you can actually detach inside and so you
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can diffuse that light a little bit but what happens here is you have a couple of different
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shooting position options. And so obviously there is this front flap that opens up quite wide
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On top here, there's also another additional shooting spot that you can shoot down through
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if you're wanting to do top related. And of course you could also tilt this in another direction if
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you so desire. So what I've got here to do today is, and by the way, you can easily, there's
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actually a flap here where I can fold that down to hold that open. Lots of cleverly placed velcro
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things along the way that will allow you to keep things open or closed
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But what I've got to accomplish here today and one of the primary things that I'll use this for
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is when I am shooting lenses. And so what I've got is I've got a couple of different lenses that
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I am wanting to shoot together here. And that's the Sigma 135 f1.8 art along with the Zeiss Milvus
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135 millimeter f2. And so what I will do is I'll put them inside of the light tent and I will get
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some of my product shots that I will use in, you know, my various promotion and reviews. And so
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going to go ahead and take those images and then I'll show you a few of what I produce here using
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just this setup right here. So as you can see these images allow you to really create a very
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in this case I'm going for a high key look where it's a very pure background. You could also put
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them on black and the fact that these are a material that doesn't going to absorb moisture
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means that I can also as I do sometimes I can spray a little mist on that and so I can give a look that to emphasize in this case maybe some weather sealing and so it gives you just a lot of versatility and then of course I could even
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go chroma key if I wanted to put something different in the background go for a black look
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or a low-key type look and so there is a lot of different alternatives and options and then as you
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saw all you have to do when you're done shooting is reverse the whole process store everything
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inside of it and you're back to having something very compact that could be put into a closet
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or in a corner and take up very little space in the real world
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All in all, this is a very, very useful product and I'm very excited for using this moving
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ahead because I do some product photography and also I incorporate a lot of this into
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my actual lens and gear reviews and so it's something that will be very beneficial for me
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great news is that this product from angler you can get it for under a hundred bucks and i'll
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throw a link in the description down below so if you're looking for something like this
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it seems to work very very well employ the diffuser if you want to kind of limit the light source
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but that that does bring me to what i would consider the one kind of weakness here that i
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would the one thing that i would like to see changed or improved and that is that there is
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no kind of slider control, no kind of dimmer for the built-in lighting. And so in some cases
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you may end up with some hot spots if you don't manage your lighting appropriately. And that could
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be more easily avoided, much more usefully than just putting a diffuser on there if the switch
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itself had a dimmer incorporated it. And the fact that these are LEDs should make the dimming aspect
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fairly easy to add on to into the future. But beyond that, if you understand how to use
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aperture and shutter speed, you should be able to eliminate that problem anyway from your everyday
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shooting. And so far, I haven't personally found it to be an issue. I'm Dustin Abbott. Look in the
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description down below if you would like to get a link to looking at this. And of course, if you
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haven't already, you can subscribe or follow me on social media. Thanks for watching. Have a great day
