hey everybody how's it going so one of
the things that I did to try and make my
streams look a little bit better was to
get a polarizing filter a lot of people
suggested that I get a polarizing filter
to eliminate the reflections that were
coming up from the board when I am using
flux or when I'm around then he sought a
bright area and the problem with that is
that the polarizing filter requires the
light be considerably more powerful and
the problem that have been having with
that is that I've had to overclock the
light in order to get good results which
is instead of feeding at its 12 volts I
feed it you know let's say thirteen or
fourteen or fifteen or sixteen or
seventeen and that's been killing my
lights left and right so I want to cut
and check out what this one does so let
me just bring this back to the twelve
volts that it's rated for so that we can
have a fair comparison because right now
I'm using this light a little bit
overclocked which is not a fair
comparison this is supposed to be at 12
volts there we go so this is as bright
as the normal microscope light that I
have had it goes with a polarizing
filter and sometimes this is nice
sometimes it's good when you really want
to get nitty gritty and zoom that's
where this light starts to fail because
remember the more that you zoom the less
that the light is going to be able to
get through and the less the light gets
through the crappy or your picture so
when I'm over here at 7.5 magnification
it's not really that bad but if i zoom
in all the way to try to look at
something really closely it turns in a
total [ __ ] your picture goes to [ __ ]
now in my eyepieces it's still fine but
the camera itself needs more light than
my eyes do because oh no yeah hey my
carrots or whatever yeah so it works so
this had been driving me nuts for a
while so what I did is you know I didn't
want to lose the polarizing filter
because I liked that it made the image
better for the camera but I lost the
ability to zoom in so I kept
overclocking my light so I've been
sending it 13 14 15 16 17 volts and the
light doesn't really like that very much
so I'd like to show you what I got to
fix this also I got a new overhead
tripod that's gonna be coming in soon
it's not here yet but I'd really like to
make these board or perish streams
better so I got that as well so here I
have this is a microscope light that I
spent $310 on
dumbass and if you take a look you can
see that if I had done even the tiniest
bit of research before buying this thing
it's actually cheaper to get on Amazon
than it is to get from AM scopes own
website yes I bought this for three
hundred $2.99 and free shipping but if I
had bought it on Amazon it would have
been 288 and free shipping and since I'm
a dumbass it didn't shop around and I
bought it straight from AM scopes
website rather than Amazon I you know I
lost 14 bucks but losing 14 bucks when
you spent this insane amount of money on
a microscope just a light is it doesn't
really matter at that point you know I
spent three hundred two dollars in a
frickin microscope light but first
microscope that I bought was an EM scope
SC 400 nothing was 175 bucks you can
actually get am scope is not really
unique and a lot of the products they
sell as I showed with the microscopes
that I was selling you can get something
that has a better attachment up here for
a comparable price I was just getting
[ __ ] by tariffs because apparently
when you buy something that is if you
want a tariff exemption you need to
apply for the tariff exemption very soon
after its put into place so the
companies that have been selling into
the industries otherwise known as the
the cronies can apply for the exemption
but newcomers can't but the point is
before I got out of that business
because I was getting owned by tariffs
that other companies don't have to pay
but we do most of this stuff like all
mono am scope all this crap it's it's
kind of the false concept of branding
it's mostly the same stuff but my first
microscope was a hundred seventy-five
dollars this light costs almost twice as
much as my first microscope so we're
going to unbox this baby and let's take
a look at what you get for $310 when you
buy a light so let's take a look this is
my order what are you getting the box
here you get operation instructions [ __ ]
that it comes with some fuses I'm sure
we could just use some aluminum foil
from when I get my bagel in the morning
did you not we get a power cord here and
then we get this cable thing that goes
to the ring
so let's have some fun let's hook this
baby up and see how much brighter this
thing is is this $300 brighter than my
$20.00 light one way to find out all
right so you have packaging material
here these streams are gonna look much
better I hope more packaging material
here all right ah that smells like new
power supply smell that's what this
smells like whoa okay this this is a
cool switch I like this Wow
but ordering through AM scope less
chance of getting back massager by
mistake yes
less chance of getting an essential item
so this is gonna output a bunch of light
and I imagine this is a fiber optic
cable that is going to plug in there so
this there's no way in hell I'm reading
a manual to figure out use a light [ __ ]
that so maybe we should probably clean
that a little I got a nice clean
microfiber cloth over here yes make sure
that's nice and clean
I'm guessing this goes in here and then
screws in like so
all right so now we're gonna open up
this thing this rubber band is not
functioning the way I want it to you can
die a rubber band die oh so this is the
light I have no idea how this is
supposed to work but let's see so this
is my microscope head first thing I kind
of want to do is just turn it on yeah I
guess kind of want to see see how much
see how the light comes out of this
thing
definitely not reading the manual screw
that this is some weak-ass light
I [ __ ] something up clearly
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perhaps I should read the manual this is
some weak [ __ ] yeah first thing let's
tighten this here so do this
whoa okay you can adjust the intensity
whoa okay there we go
so I didn't have this screwed in all the
way gonna get you for that Christopher
Kelley
you know [ __ ] Bitcoin millionaires in
my chat thinking they can give me money
when I say it's up so first thing to do
let's just make sure this is all the way
in there nice and tight
the next thing gonna do is figure out
how to get this thing attached onto my
actual microscope so it comes with this
thing but I don't know what the hell
like what does this thing do this goes
here no all right so I'm gonna unscrew
the microscope light that I have here
try this thing on this is a really
unwieldly beast of it of cable going
here so if you have like you think about
my normal microscope light my microscope
mine went back and forth all I have is
this little [ __ ] cable but this has
this this whole chain thing which kind
of makes putting it on here a little bit
more difficult but no worries just gotta
unscrew this all the way
okay now we got the light now these
thumb screws don't have they don't
really have much in terms of a grip so
it's kind of hard to get them tighter
yeah like this this the thumb screws on
the 20 dollar microscope light are kind
of like hybrid flathead screws so you
can you know you can do this it's got
the grip on the side but it also has a
flathead whereas these ones don't have
that so it's a bit more of a pain in the
ass to attach but what are you gonna do
I also got a clean the side of my
microscope I clean this thing constantly
but it always winds up getting flux or
whatever on it so now let's just test
the same thing that we were doing before
with this light so I am going to zoom
all the way out and as you can see I see
nothing because I have no light I'm
gonna slowly turn this thing up gotta
say this is a weird color okay we can
turn it out we can turn it up all right
so this is all the way up all right now
let's see if i zoom in I can zoom in all
the way and honestly
let's see is this worth 310 dollars over
my $20.00 light I will let you decide in
a moment so remember the problem is when
we were fully zoomed in when we're all
the way zoomed in is when this thing
gives me an issue so this is all the way
zoomed in this is the new one so now I'm
gonna switch back and forth rapidly
between this and the old one all right
this is the old one old light let's just
adjust the white balance and the auto
exposure alright so this is the old
light this is the reason it's shaky is
because it's all the way zoomed in it's
gonna be a little bit so when I'm zoomed
all the way out the difference between
the two bulbs is minimal it doesn't it
doesn't really see in a matter but once
you zoom in all the way that's when I'm
zoomed in all the way even with the
exposure all the way turned up there I'm
still getting a garbage picture now if I
go over to this $310 insane light sexy
light I just came and you owe me new
pants there's no way in hell yet you
came from this little light now if you
look at this one the white balance is
very very different this is a much
warmer light but as you can see when i
zoom in all the way I actually have a
much better picture so in the beginning
I didn't think it was that much better
but I think it was because I forgot how
bad the original one was so this one is
this is a better light I'll give it that
it's a better light is this $280 better
this is not $280 better than this this
should be able to be much brighter than
what I get like again is it an
improvement over this yes it's an
improvement in the last few yards but
this is not no this is not a this is not
a $310 light so let's see if I wanted to
go up in lighting let's say I was uh
alright so this is the light right now
watch what happens when I switch off of
the halogen and I go to the LED it's the
completely blue because the white
balance is set for the other one and if
I go from the led to the halogen this is
like this is this is a clearly clearly
and it's not a problem because I
I have a camera that will adjust for
this but this is very very clearly a
warm LED I mean now it's a what the
halogen is warm it's not a cool light
this is a cool light and I'm definitely
going to be able to produce much higher
quality videos with it because I can use
the polarizer filter and eliminate
reflections while simultaneously not
losing finer detail when i zoom in that
was lost by the old light that wasn't
able to go bright enough
the downside is the noise however at the
end of the day there's quite a bit of
noise in the store as is which is why I
have the microphone that's close to my
mouth if I'm soldering and I have a fume
extractor plus a hot-air station on I
don't think the additional noise created
by this is bad check out the LED ad MB
hmm maybe maybe but at the end of the
day I think I'm gonna be able to do some
better videos with this is this light
280 dollars better than my old one
absolutely not
is it better yes and I appreciate the
upgrade so that's that see you in the
next video and as always I hope you
learned something hey everybody so one
of the things that one of you pointed
out is that my camera has HDR and I
believe I was using it at the lowest if
not not even on setting that's pretty
stupid if I'm doing if the entire reason
that I purchased a different microscope
light is that when I have something that
is really really zoomed in or close up
that that you can't see it under light
the lighting of it so what I'm gonna do
here is I'm gonna take a look under an
LP 8550 we're gonna do the same thing
with full zoom but I'm gonna turn HDR up
a little bit now the more I turn up the
HDR is a more washed out the images but
let's see if we can get a little bit
more of an idea of what it is that's
going on at full zoom when I have that
on there so I'm going to first put on
this one this is the normal standard
cheap-ass ring light that I was showing
you from earlier so I'm gonna switch
over to the microscope light obviously
you can see that because I was using the
halogen bulb that the white balance is
way off so we're just going to switch
that now as I said you get a fairly good
image with this you get a fairly good
image and fit even if you're like a
little zoomed in it's only when you try
to zoom in all the way at like a hundred
percent that you then start to realize
that you can't see anything anymore
even if I have the exposure all the way
up so now what we're gonna do is we're
going to turn up the HDR
and the reason I didn't see this is
because usually my open broadcaster
window is shrunk so that I can see that
your chat on the screen as I'm streaming
so I can't really read or make out what
these things say under here now if I
turn up the HDR you'll see that I can
still I can see the balls a little bit
better now like it's easier to make them
out even with the remember the polarizer
filter is going to be taking away some
of my life so that is balls underneath
the LP 8550 or if I want I can zoom in
on let's say this connector so this is
what I was doing in on before and when i
zoom in all the way see see that so now
at least I can see it even if I'm not
getting the greatest detail and again
you can turn up HDR more but once you
turn up HDR to this level stuff really
starts to look kind of washed out so if
I take a look at something familiar like
let's say it could be leaves a RAM chip
power area or something like this you
can see that you really do lose a lot of
the black levels when you have HDR
turned up like that you lose a lot of it
it's better to have your exposure a
little up and less HDR for image quality
but now let's just take a look so we had
this over here for underneath an LP 8550
and remember I was turning up the HDR in
order to really see under there at full
zoom and now let's take a look and see
what that looks like instead of with
this $22 light with this $310 M scope
light I'm gonna put that back on this is
gonna be the halogen bulb zoom in
obviously I gotta reset my white balance
because this looks freakin ridiculous
you do get a better picture and you can
turn the HDR a little bit down see right
now the HDR is turned up a lot so you're
getting a ridiculous picture but you can
turn the HDR down and still get a
quality picture can you take a look here
at this connector I can zoom all the way
in on the trackpad connector I can do
this and I can see everything at a lower
HDR which means that I'm gonna have
better black levels in the camera now I
can turn HDR up so I actually have to
hit the buttons in the camera to control
this and once I turn HDR up then I get a
really really clear clear image so let's
see so I'm gonna take a look at a ball
underneath the LP 8550 again something
that's really difficult to see fully
zoomed
all right that's with the halogen I'm
gonna take a look at these two balls
okay now let's try and switch really
quickly over to the LED and as you can
see when I switch over to the LED what
was visible before is now barely visible
even after I change the white balance
you can see that the Le this one at the
LED at full brightness is still missing
quite a bit and in order to turn to
actually really see much you got to turn
the HDR up quite a bit so even taking
into account
HDR the LED light that is $22 Falls a
lot behind this one however that being
said this light that I have is not in
any way shape or form 280 dollars better
than the LED this only makes sense to
switch to something like this if you're
doing videos like I am and you're do
what you're trying to do it on some sort
of professional level so that people can
see things a little bit better when you
zoom in all the way because usually what
I'm forced to do even if I want to zoom
in more to show you something I don't do
that further zooming in and I work in
certain areas when I should be zooming
in I'm not because you won't be able to
see it in the camera now that will help
me get around it
but I really don't think it makes sense
for virtually any normal person to spend
this much extra money on this you can
decide for yourself that's what the
quality difference is with and without
HDR so you're welcome to make your own
welcome to come to your own conclusions
from this video a lot of people have
asked why don't I just make my own LED
why don't I just if you take a look at
this there's I don't know like 64 90 144
LEDs in this thing
I don't want to desolder 144 LEDs and
then solder 144 of my own in that's
going to take a ridiculous insane amount
of time in the amount of time that it
would take for me to do that I could
probably do several border pairs which
would make me way more money than the
amount of money that I spent on this
light so this light is about 310 bucks
less if you buy it from Amazon I'm a
dumbass and I actually went to am scopes
website directly silly me this
if I fix a board in ten or twenty
minutes then I I'm better off than I am
if I did not fix a board in that time
but I spent half an hour researching
what led to get and then an hour doing
the soldering job to get rid of all
these LEDs and solder a new ones that
would be in a lot of time invested but
I'm kind of debating whether I should do
it just that is sheer stubbornness at
this point if people are interested in
it and if you can show me a light that
has you know an LED that's of really
high quality because it's hard to find
them you either find these LED light
ring lights that are over a thousand
bucks which is crazy or you find LED
ring lights that are twenty-two bucks
and then you find the branded ones where
they take the 22 dollar one and they
charge you you know $150 just because it
has someone's name on it but if someone
has an idea for some LEDs that have a
really high CRI like a really quality
LED that can take some power and I may
do a video where just for the hell of it
even though it is kind of a waste of
time I go through it and I D solder all
these inside of those in just to see
what it looks like out of curiosity but
that's about it
hopefully you learn something about
these expensive lamps now and I will go
on to do some videos before my bulb dies
see ya on the next video