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Aputure finally announces Amaran LED tubes along with some flexible LED panels

Apr 1, 2022 by John Aldred Leave a Comment

LED tubes have become tremendously popular over the last couple of years. We’ve seen them released by Godox, Nanlite, Digitalfoto and a number of other companies but Aputure seems to have abstained from the party… Until now. The company has now announced the new Aputure Amaran T2C and T4C RGBWW LED tubes along with a pair of 2×1′ (Amaran F21) and 2×2′ (Amaran F22) flexible and bendable LED panels.

There doesn’t appear to be a promo video on the Aputure YouTube channel yet, but they did live stream the launch of the new items. The two tubes come in 20W and 40W varieties for the T2C and T4C respectively and allow you to produce just about any colour you can imagine. They have 46 built-in gel presets as well as 15 lighting effects as well as DMX (through an adapter) and Sidus Link remote control.

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Nanlite PavoTube II 30X is a light tube to rule all light tubes

Nov 17, 2021 by Amit Maymoni Leave a Comment

Another day, another tube light. And today, we are looking at the Nanlite PavoTube II 30X, a four feet (114cm) tube light. The 30X is an upgraded version of the Nanlite PavoTube 30C. The main difference is support at pixel lever lighting, but there are more improvements like wider CCT range, better build, and Bluetooth support. Hit the jump to read our full review.

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DIYP reviews the IWATA master tube lights series

Oct 12, 2021 by Tom Saimon Leave a Comment

Tubelights are becoming ever more popular. The last player to join the game is IWATA (whom we remember for their excellent mini panel). Actually, the mini panel was so good and ubiquitous that “IWATA panel” became a generic name for those mini bi-color lights. It seems that that panel was retired, but we were thrilled to learn that IWATA is now making tube-style lights. They sent us two of their new light panels, the 32 cm Master-R light and the 23 cm Master-S light. TL;DR – we were impressed.

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