Aputure Amaran MX & F7 LED Lights Announced & Reviewed

by Nino LeitnerMarch 30^th, 2018

Aputure just announced their new small and super powerful MX and F7 LED lights, and our man Eric van Vuuren already reviewed them in detail in this video.

Aputure Amaran MX – small with big output

The new Amaran MX light by Aputure is the successor of the popular M9 light, but this time it’s very sturdily built using aircraft aluminium, on the footprint of a credit card. It features 128 LEDs and is supposed to be 3 times as bright as the M9 – when using the “booster” function, it can temporarily output even 4 times as much light as the M9 (for up to 60 seconds).

Bi-color with internal powerful battery

The MX is bi-color and can change from 2800K to 6500K, its CRI and TLCI is more than 95, according to the manufacturer. One charge lasts 40 minutes at maximum power and over 5 hours at minimum power, so in practice it will be somewhere in between for normal use. The internal lithium battery can be charged with a supplied USB-C cable, which is quickly becoming a standard.

Such a light is extremely useful to use in small spaces where nothing else fits, for example in cars.

Aputure Amaran F7 – larger but less expensive

The newly announced Amaran F7 by Aputure is a larger light than the MX, but with a cheaper built (no metal used here) on a larger surface, as you can see in our review. It has twice the amount of LEDs (256) compared to the MX.

100% light output at daylight preset

Aputure was really innovative with how they solved the “bi-color” dilemma in this light – for the first time ever, a bi-color light has 100% brightness output when set to 5600K.

Here’s how Aputure explains it in their press release:

Pricing and availability

The Aputure Amaran MX is available starting today for $149, the Amaran F7 also today for $98.

What do you think about Aputure’s new lights? Can you see yourself use them in the future on your productions, and for what purpose? Let us know in the comments below. 

Thanks to Eric van Vuuren for this video review plus the photos – check out his own personal (Dutch) YouTube channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrCreativeric