No sponsors here, just trying to find the best battery powered hobby lamps for every budget. No one wants to sit alone in the dark during a mandatory winter blackout! Why not do some hobbying?
The lamps:
Hapfish Magnetic Battery Light: https://geni.us/hapfish
Daylight Company Twist 2 Go: https://geni.us/twist2go
Deeplite LED Desk Light: https://geni.us/deepliteled
Lord Foldemort: https://geni.us/lordfoldemort
The normal, mains powered hobby lamp I use: https://geni.us/DaylightLumi
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Which lamp was your favourite?
Hapfish Magnetic Battery Light: https://geni.us/hapfish
Daylight Company Twist 2 Go: https://geni.us/twist2go
Deeplite LED Desk Light: https://geni.us/deepliteled
Lord Foldemort: https://geni.us/lordfoldemort
… and this is the normal, mains powered hobby lamp I use: https://geni.us/DaylightLumi
Cobalt Keep has a new painting handle that has a rechargeable light.
what a dystopian premise for a video.
In summary: f*ck the Tories
This was a very weird way for me to learn about the energy shortages in the UK
DO NOT use your phone lamp for extended periods. It can actually cause permanent damage shortening the overall life of your phone battery.
I use a ikea lamp with different colour temps and brightness settings. It runs from usb phone wall adapter. I have also used it with power banks with no issues.
The liberal parties potentially could help with shortages but youd lose all your rights with them in charge …though to be fair you cant blame the parties you support as no one wants to vote them in to begin with
and they wouldnt be able to do anything anyways …..we have no economical or technological independence and we lack resources
over the next 50-100 years due to choice and liberal freedom the world population will increase to 10 billion, there will be a mass migration of 3 billion and the world will end up back down to 5 billion people, due to acrid soil and lack of fresh water, famine and disease …….these statistics are stated by the same authority that provides the world population data, a collective of organisations at the front of analytical science ……the least to worry about is a bit of energy shortage no matter how devastating, the NHS is crumbling and not sustainable ….warehouses are stocked with body bags to help fight the next outbreak which it struggled to manage last time, we cant reverse global warming, though i applaud innovation in any field ….im not a conspiracy theorist and the proof of that fact is that i hope my predictions dont come true ….
That candle scene of painting was how I was painting Magnus during the Texas Winter Storm. Days without power, but I still wanted to finish the center piece of my army.
That intro had Olympic gold level sarcasm. 😂
I just use a rechargable LED headlamp. Since my light source is always coming from my forehead I dont really need to worry about the viewing area.
Fantastic advice, and stellar tunes! Thanks Guy, stay safe and stay warm!
Man. Midwinter minis is the most wholesome player in the game. Thanks!
Head torches!
They beat those puny lamps, hands down. For the cost of the Hapfish, I've just snagged a Sofirn HS20 with Cree XHP50.2 & a Samsung LH351D LEDs, both have a nice, warm 5000k tint, with the latter having rather good CRI of ~92-96, and the former a less good (but still no doubt better than all of those lamps) index of ~68-70. Both can be run independently or together @ L-M-H and blind everyone mode TuRdBo. It even comes with a decent 18650, but who of us doesn't already have a bunch of those, right?
Even the old, by comparison, and now very cheap (a tenner-ish) D10 / D25 with dual XML-L2 emitters will make the lamps look like candles.
Jus' sayin'. 😛
Thank you for the review! This is the first time I’ve followed a link from the channel. I can’t wait to get my Hapfish light and start painting in the wee hours of the night 🙂
I thought you were going to cover other tabletop games after that GW underpaying staff video.
I guess not.
Very useful for us here in South Africa, where we've been having blackouts "loadshedding" for over a decade.
The Rishi Sunak seal of approval made me laugh. Do you have to give him a massive backhander to be awarded one or an I thinking about knighthoods? Lol
Anyhow, I've been using a small Anker battery pack, connected to my illuminated 5x magnifying glass. It lasts a good 7 hours on full brightness.
I've bought the Anker 737 recently, usb Christmas lights and a pile of candles. We're heading for some kind of steampunk Edwardian Christmas lol.
Hope everyone has a pleasant Christmas and stays safe and well.
12 years of steady conservative rule you say!!!!!! Lucky dog, over here in Canada the left wing clown liberals rule the roost. Or at least they do until corruption, scandals, misspending, and the increase of the national debt finally piss people off enough to vote them out and bring in the Progressive Conservative Party with a mandate to clean up the various messes created by the Federal Liberal Party nutcases.
An once the books are balanced, taxes are low, GOP is up, and spending is under control, people around here suddenly develop amnesia and vote in the liberal goof troop all over again to screw things up. Yeah I know, Canadians need a smack in the back of the head to remind them to vote smart and stop listening to liberal myths. As it stands right now, according to the miserable numbers of various independent polls, PM Trudeau or as enough Canadians now like to refer to him, the head moron, and his circus of misfits might be going out the door in the next couple years if not sooner.
Sooooo……considering this is a British channel am I alone is saying Labor sucks and Jeremy Corbyn should have been thrown in the Thames once he got unceremoniously booted out of Labor for being a mental case??? Kind of surprised Labor would even pick him as their party leader considering he's had the Islington North ward for decades and the place continues to be dirt poor with little to no improvement for the people forced to live there.
An as a little added extra salt in the wound, how did that last round of elections turn our for Labor again???? Oh yeah that's right, various areas that haven't flipped in decades suddenly lit up Tory. Yeah, why am I not surprised. Heh heh heh, buuurrrnnn.
Sorry Guy I love you to death, I really really do, but I despise the modern far left woke atrocity that now wears the skin suit of the left wing liberal
Thanks for the vid mate
Bless
UK getting some loadshedding like us South Africans too huh?
I've painted in candle light I do not recommend my eyes died and I had to take a break from painting for a week and a half. My eyes were super dry and exhausted from trying to focus on something so small in the dark.
"blackout seal of approval" would have cracked me up if I wasn't considering burning bank notes for both heat and light 😂
that opening tory bash xD
Thank you for not shying away from political commentary.
There might be some who will claim that politics have no place in a hobby or hobby video but when politics have such deep reaching repercussions for people whose videos we enjoy watching and their families it would be dishonest to say there is no place for you to speak up on the failings of the current government.
Guy, another consideration should be whether the battery is replacable once its life is over; too many products are made essentially disposable by using a battery that cannot be replaced without destroying the casing, this has to stop because I'm sick of throwing away an other wise functioning product purely because the battery no longer holds a charge, this is a plastic product in most cases. I know why they make them so hard to replace; they want us to buy a new one instead of replacing the battery but this is incredibly destructive to the planet.
This is truly terrible the conditions that you will have. Very interesting with the lighting and colour will affect the painting. Maybe trying painting with the different lights if it does not damage to eyes. It would be fascinating to see how it would turn out.
I'm confused why the hand model was wearing a towel
Very…illuminating….🤔
My favourite battery worklight is the 'Smallrig Vibe P96L', which I nicked from my mum's studio. Repeatedly. I guess she loves it too because she got so frustrated with my thievery, she ended up getting me my own, lol! It was somewhere around $50 Aussiebucks? It's basically a miniature panel LED for fill-lighting. I whole-heartedly recommend looking into it as an option.
It's only a wee thing but it packs a heck of a punch (it's about the size and shape of an average smartphone, which also makes it very portable). Light quality is excellent! My understanding is that it's intended for filming/photography so it has a built in diffuser and adjustable colour (as in actual colour — if you want to fill your room with purple, go for it XD), light warmth in Kelvin, brightness, etc. And on the back it's got a neat little LCD display with the battery, current brightness %, current kelvin, and an estimation of how much time it's got left at current settings before needing a charge. Got little dials for making all kind of adjustments, comes with a cute little tripod, brushed-metal body… I was surprised it was so cheap when I asked mum what she paid for it. It also won't go above 60% brightness while on charge so it won't overheat, but I found even at 60% it was brighter than other desk lights I've tried out.
Only trouble I can see with it, the included tripod's as wee as the light. So if you haven't anywhere higher than your worktop to put it, its practicability is more limited. That said, its aforementioned size and shape is a big plus, because it perfectly fits my gooseneck smartphone holder and I imagine it'd easily fit any other type of smartphone clamp as well.
Oh Guy. Poor Uk folks. 🙁
LED panels for photography are very good hobby lamps, and they have replaceable batteries which would give you a long working time
Rishis's Mandatory Winter Blackout Seal of Approval had me both laughing and crying within seconds of each other.
I was sold on the magnetic one as soon as I started watching. This will go well in my spray booth. Though I might pay a few quid extra to the 4000 mAh 🙂
Man I was not prepared for how unintentionally bleak and dystopian this intro was. One of the most powerful and developed countries in the world brought low by a bunch of sesame street characters who conned its citizens into thinking isolationism was the absolute tops and who are now facing rolling blackouts and fuel shortages? I don't know if it's traditional English "stiff upper lip" that's keeping you going but I'd be way too angry at my government to be making cheeky jokes about the situation. I've been keeping out of news to preserve my mental health and hadn't realized brexit had gotten this bad. I'm sorry you're all having to deal with that bullshit.
All of Guys digs at the tories make him my new favourite hobbyist ❤️
New direction for the channel: Guy reading Amazon product titles, while the babies sleep (in his semi-hushed voice).
Guy, contact anker. Propose a spot for their big power banks the one with wheels, high light that you hit a different community then they mostly sponsor. Not just power tools and job sites.
Honestly I’m pretty concerned that you might be left without power with the babies and I know if you can land a sponsor spot so you can get one for your family I honestly wouldn’t mind the ad read. Theirs is more involved like two min plus you have to actually use it in the filming and use it for two or three activities. You know sponsors you get the idea. I personally would have no problem with it showing up in your video.
Where in the uk do you live that there's blackouts?
I like lamp.
That Riven intro was kinda amazing <3
MWM ASMR
Odd to not see this in my subscriptions but in suggested videos
The UK really is falling low. But nothing surprising. It's been a slow downward slope for the past couple decades
Somebody's been practicing their ASMR voice
So, um, whatever happened to the Sandstone Necron Full Army showcase video that was promised, 3 months ago?
You have environmental lobbies and globalist policies and politicians to blame for the current situation. Reality has really kicked the western world in the titan ball joints. Especially Western Europe. Which lets be honest with ourselves. Western Europe is still in it’s drunken stupor from the world wars. In your attempts to not be like the nations of said world wars. You end up as being seen as the dying museum of the world. Perhaps it takes old people dying of the cold and food shortages for you all to wake up and join the rest of the world. I don’t want people to die, but if it takes some old people freezing to death to do it. So be it. Wake Up Knight To The Crisis Of The 21st Century!
Love this guy
This video literally reminded me to get my battery packs charged up at work before I go home for the weekend – thanks Midwinter Minis!
Me when starting to watch this video: But I don't need a battery lamp I have electrohhhh I get it now.