Kino Flo Select 30 vs Arri SkyPanel s30-c | Head to Head

The two heaviest of the heavyweights go head to head in this video, including a full feature walkthrough of each light.

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1:42 ARRI SKY PANEL OVERVIEW
3:58 Light Modes: Basic light adjustment settings
4:45 Light Modes: HSI
5:14 Light Modes: Gel simulation Mode
6:00 Menu Settings
10:00 Ports (In/Out) & Power
10:30 Physical light manipulation & modifiers

11:50 KINO FLO SELECT 30 ** (see corrections below)
12:19 Light Modes: Basic light adjustment settings
12:51 Light Modes: Gel & Hue **
14:08 Light Modes: RGB
14:30 Menu Settings **
16:11 Physical light manipulation
18:09 Ports (in/out) & Power

20:00 Final thoughts / value comparison

** CORRECTIONS **
Since publishing, we have been in touch with Kino Flo and they offered us these corrections:

Gel Selections: The gels are not proprietary. They match Lee and Rosco. Lee and Rosco share the same names or description of their more common gel colors. They used the same names not necessarily the same numbers. The numbers associated with the gels are order references only so you can find them quicker or match another instrument by calling out the reference number.

Another very important feature is the ability to lay a gel on any source with Kelvin ranging from 2500K to 9900K. So with a gel selected you can move onto the Kelvin settings and adjust the Kelvin. The light will appear as the gel on the Kelvin of your choice not just 3200K or 6500K. This allows the user to match existing sources, be they tungsten or HMI. (SkyPanel offers 2 Kelvins)

Smoothing ON: Eliminates any flicker when dimming in 8 bit or when changing from one color to another.