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Using portable lights

Using portable lights

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Using portable lights

- I see a slew of lighting here but all these lights have something in common. - You don't have to plug them in. - Yeah, which is cool. Well, I mean this one we plugged in, but it's plugged into a battery. - Right, that's fair enough. - Yeah. And technically there's power inside, but the good thing here is that we can go on location and we don't need to be looking for electrical outlets. - Yeah, I mean the thing these days is that lights have become really compact and really small. And this is a huge benefit for your production, because instead of having to have power outlets and hot lights, we can have small little guys like this that are powered by batteries that use LED lights, so they're going to run cool, they're going to be efficient in their use of power, and ultimately that's going to save you money, time and have more options to put them in different places. - What I like with a light like this is, besides the fact that it's dimmable, is that it's just regular double-A…

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