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TESTING OUT THE INTERCHANGEABLE HMI LIGHTING PACKAGE
When you hear Ant on/ Bauer, you may think of batteries, but the company does a lot more than make portable power sources. The UltraDAYlight is a small, camera- mounted light that features switchable daylight- and tungsten-balanced modules (head units), so there's no more bulb pulling and tugging to change color temperatures.
The review kit I received contained a Dio nie 90 lithium- ion battery, Tandem Gold Mount battery charger/power supply, an Ultralight 2 (UL-2) tungsten module, an UltraDAYlight HMI light module, a QR PD HDV adapter for connecting the camera to the power supply, and Anton/Bauer's UL SoftBox for diffusing the HMI light source. This kit contains everything for the shooter to illuminate scenes either indoors or out. MSRP as tested: $2,632.
Setup takes just a few seconds. The 10 oz. UL- 2 mounts to either the camera's hot shoe or a 1/4- inch screw mount. The UL- 2 module contains a 25 W halogen lamp that can be aimed directly...