I got this Nanlite PavoSlim 120B for Half Price! (YouTube Filming Upgrade)

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I just got this nanlite Pavo slim 120b I got it half price on B&H Photo this is like the first hack that you need to know if you want to be making video content is how to get good equipment as cheap as possible B&H Photo often has really good deals so I'm going to unbox it and I'm going to show you setting it up we'll see how well it works first of all it's got a cool case a lot of these kind of Lights do especially you know at the price point where you're spending a couple hundred dollars but most of the time I don't use them because frankly I'm keeping my lights in the same space all the time kind of in a studio environment but if I were moving around quite a bit it would be super handy let's see what's inside this is the soft box it's got its own little carrying case essentially this is the box that's going to go around the panel so this is the size of the panel not as big as the Falcon IED panels I have but this will work then it's got this diffuser screen that's going to make the light softer which is really nice I use that on all my lights and then this is definitely one of those grids so we're going to set this up and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about I have a shoulder strap for the case this is how I'm going to be able to mount it so this will connect to the back of the light itself and then this will connect to a typical light stand we'll see how that goes together in a bit obviously power cable this is going to connect from the controller to the light there is the control box then of course the light itself this is a by color so it's going to go anywhere from really warm to really cool okay let's put this thing together this is really nice because it's a rigid panel this just kind of slides over the velcro sticks nicely here right to the sides and back that makes that super easy there's two different diffusers on here I typically use the one that's kind of got the little squares on it might be hard to see and I'm going to put this in here low down here so that I have plenty of room for that grid then kind of the same thing here I'll stick a corner in a corner that corner there slide it along the side this corner all the way in here okay now I've got the power cord comes out the bottom I'm going to take the mount oh this is super nice look at that I can just slide it in there that's super cool and then I pull it up slide it out so I can adjust it take it on and off really easily and then here I can adjust the angle all right here we got a light stand the top of the stand has a typical light attachment I'm going to start just by putting this right on there just by loosening this one joint it allows me to go side to side as well as up and down on the angle got the control box here I turn the power on on this side I've got dim and on this side I have the color this is 2700 Kelvin to 6500 Kelvin this is on just 6% so it's actually putting out a bunch of light