Hey what is up my name is Rubidium I have something a little special for you today on the Crimson Engine we're gonna look at a light but not just any light a very special light this one the Hudson spider eight-limbed transforming LED array that is incredibly versatile that's incredibly bright it has a 400 watt power output it comes with two or three different ways to conform it I've had it for a couple of weeks now I met the guys Tim and Sarah at NAB and they're Australians Tim's DP and he basically created this light out of need he was working on films and commercials and he always needed a big soft source that was light that could be mounted high that was easy to carry but also one that didn't spill so the way you would traditionally get this is use a use a bank of four by four LEDs or use a bank of four by four quinoa flows but it doesn't give the same effect as a circular source it's not as pretty in the eye it's not as pretty with the reflections so he through many prototypes it was his team created this Hudson spider that transforms and adapts to all sorts of wonderful ways I first learned about it on one of Matt workman's podcasts and have really wanted to check it out it's become a kind of go-to high-end LED source for you know working cinematographers so I'm gonna swap from the Hudson spider over to an LED panel so I can show you exactly how it works so when you pull this light out of the box it looks like this only weighs a couple of pounds each one of these eight arms collapses in on itself so it's very compact and transportable then you can mount it to a light stand or a sea stand and then you start to open up the different limbs and possibilities and ways to configure this light so by loosening it in the sea stand knuckle it can rotate so that lets you open up the first stage of each arm once you've done that you can open the second stage of each arm so it's at 10% so you can see basically how it works just have to now that it's plugged in you have to watch the cable that it doesn't twist up but essentially there's a raise of LEDs in the arms that are joined by a hinge and it means that you can make the light smaller or bigger by manipulating the legs of the spider so the next thing you do is put on a softbox like an octobank that stops the you can if you don't have issues with spill you can use it entirely like this the next step in configuring it to be used on set is to add softbox which is what I'll do now so you can kind of drape this over and each of the legs fits into a little pocket as you rotate the light then once you have your softbox on it attaches by a zip at the back so pretty easy to configure and this softbox then serves to hold the diffusion it has the advantage of still revealing a lot of the structure of the spider legs inside the light so that it breaks up the perfect kind of two perfect circle in the eye of the subject but I'll stop I'll turn off this light and I'll stop down the camera and I'll measure the output so at full power at about three feet away from the front of the diffusion I'm getting 600 foot candles which is about 6200 lux the difference between this and other bright LEDs is this isn't too bright to look at it's not it doesn't burn the eyes of the talent even at full power because the the parabolic formation of light is what's giving the throw and not necessarily the pure brightness of the LEDs so you might be thinking you know three three foot diameter is great but I want bigger sources I'm shooting full body shots like we are here and this is only going to cover the top half of my talent well the spider has you covered and now you have what's probably a four and a half foot source but you can go bigger again so you start by adding this initial layer of diffusion and then we'll have to move this back up and even go to fit on camera you bring out this thing which looks like it fell off a spaceship so now we have a six foot light source and yes there's diffusion for this so now we have the full six foot version of the Hudson in its diffused light source so I'm going to slide the panel out the way move this to where it was when we started and I'll show you what that looks like so now I'm being lit by this huge diffused source like I said it's still in it 50% power it can go much brighter it's by color it all packs up into a tiny little hard case travel case and you can even run off batteries so I mean the Hudson spider as far as configurability as far as transboardability as far as the way it's designed and the way it's meant to be used is like the future of lighting it is going to be seen a lot more I think on sets a lot more on high-end budget feature films TV commercials TV shows it's just a really versatile awesome tool instead of having to bring a whole array of different lights in different colors with different powers different sizes suddenly you can bring one light and it can do you know 90% of the things that you would typically want after I met them at an ABA I went out to their factory just outside of Los Angeles here in California they make everything there they test everything there that's my look at the Hudson spider thanks very much for watching leave your questions in the comments and I will see you next time