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I made a video to show you what the ProdMod NightVlogger 160 can do in a completely dark room in an interview-like situation. You know like when you spot a celebrity in a dark club in NYC and manage to get your camera out to record a few clips except this time you wont end up with dark blurry images becuse you have your high powered, yet easily concealed NightVlogger 160 video light!

In this demo video I am not a celebrity but I am in a completely dark room. The light is attached to my new Flip Mino camcorder held at arms length away from my face.

But you can attach it to any camera or camcorder or even a tripod for more professional looking steady recording.

It projects a roughly 100 degree wide beam of light so you wont see a spotlight effect or dark circles around your subjects and hot spots are limited. With a few nuts and bolts you can mount this to your tripod for macro photography too.

Here is a quick look at the insides.

YOU can make this yourself! In fact I think its easier to make than my original 4LED ProdMod Camera Light because I managed to get parts that are small enough to fit into the battery holder. So you do NOT have to cut up a heat sink or the LED base. This saves you a tremendous amount of time and labor. You will need Duco Cement or Super Glue to fix it in place.

You can also use a set screw and coupling nut to mount it to both your camera and tripod at the same time.

So I am putting all the pieces in a parts kit and selling it for $35. This is a promotional offer and supplies are limited.

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Introducing the ProdMod Night Vlogger 160!

The following project is a neat way to make your own high powered video light to attach to your digital camera or camcorder. I called it the NightVlogger 160 after I read the term on this article of someone willing to use this type of light to allow him to take paparazzi style video at night. Vloggerazzi if you will. At 160 lumen it is very bright, in fact it is brighter than a 10W Halogen! It also fits in a slim AAA battery holder using only 3 AAA batteries. It projects a wide angle flood as opposed to a focused spotlight so you don’t have to zoom in to avoid the dark circle effect.
If you have followed my previous camera light projects you might have guessed this was the logical next step. I have made a 1W LED camera light before without showing you the details, but I think this latest one is a little easier to assemble and uses a very powerful yet very small Endor Rebel from luxeon to produce 160 lumens of light at 700mA.  I also swapped the battery holder switch with a 3 position switch so that I can have two brightness levels, Low and High.

First take a look at this video to see what it can do and then lets discuss the How To.

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, originally uploaded by Mudstone.

I just notice that mudstone added an assortment of amazing photos taken of the ProdMod LED hoop. I like this one in particular. It looks like the hoop was rolled on the floor and taken with a long exposure setting of the camera. It’s great how you can see each LED as it approaches an touches the ground. Wow. I love it.

It also reminds me how bright the ProdMod hoop lights are.

If you have some cool pics of your ProdMod hoop you would like to share please add them to the ProdMod Flickr Pool.

In fact I am inspired to have a contest!

Rules:

1.Become a member of my Flickr Pool

2. Add your best pics of your ProdMod hoop in action between now and Nov 7th.

3. Make sure you refer to it being a ProdMod hoop in either the title or the description of that photo.

4. Tag the photo with the term “prodmod” and “ledhoop”.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/prodmodledhulahoop/

The photo with the most positive comments will win either:

A free rechargeable upgrade kit

or

$40 credit to anything sold on my site*.
*This does not include hoop kits as they are sold through makershed.com.

And please make sure to use the ProdMod LED hoop in your photo entry - I can tell