Slate Appliances Light Grey Modern Kitchen

Solid construction and works well. Used this for small appliances in the kitchen.

This backdrop with the stands they offer was a great solution, be careful with other colors such as slate grey is very green I've asked them to correct this. B&H service is excellent, great prices and support too!

If you need a slate, get this one. I got it, and liked it.

Buy this 30 Grey target, set an approximate white balance icon for your environment, get into the light that you are shooting, fill your viewfinder completely with the grey target in consistent light, set shutter speed at zero then up it +1/3 stop, focus and click. You have aproximately compensated for Ansel Adam's K factor (18% vs 12.5% true grey). Then bracket upwards three times each by 1/3 f-stops, take a look at each image, choose the proper exposure for your light temperature and lock it in. Different light temperatures show a flat target between zero to + 3/3 compensation dependent upon the model of camera body.

A light grey gives me the range I couldn't get with just black.

I am a flashlight collector. I am very familiar with lights, and I love this one. I have far cheaper variants which run afoul of precision needs. Most of them tend to have poor dispersion and the center portion is bright with a shadow of the LEDs square shape. So I don't buy them. This one uses a nice led coupled with a properly designed dispersion lens The different intensities are great because full brightness can be a bit much for electronics (all the soldering, capacitors/IC outputs shine). I found full brightness great for drains, appliances, finding items in small cracks between appliances, etc. Because of the focused beam, you illuminate what you need. Other lights have a broader illumination and don't fit in cracks. The not fitting part is an obvious issue. The focused illumination of the light prevents lighting up relatively near surfaces and thus reducing visibility of the needed areas. The light doesn't weigh much, has a grippy texture, and soft button. The tail end is plastic which is fine for a light such as this. Furthermore, the plastic has an O-ring, and screws in perfectly. Often metal-threaded endcaps are not as smooth. Some of the tasks in the photo (electronics) are more appropriate for headlamps, but headlamps have issues sometimes. For quick checks, nothing beats this. No flexed head positions, no illuminating your nose more than the electronics. For plumbing, I'd actually want the light up very close to check for water. Headlamps would just make everything shine. I couldn't coordinate taking a picture with the light as used for inspecting for leaks around tees. Excellent EDC light for me.

Use these to protect appliances from power surges.

Good slate

Classic Scene slate.

for any non-timecode slate, it does its job.