Elgato Key Light Alternative (Day 3517 - 7/12/19)

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Stephen and Mallory are currently doing the Super Mario Maker 2 Story Mode stream. They are about halfway through all the levels and Stephen tells chat to say "Hi" to the vlog. Mal insists that Stephen shows off the buffalo chicken dip she made. Stephen says that it is similar to Nikki's recipe, but slightly different.

Later, Stephen says the stream went well and now he will talk about the set up for the lights in his office. He says that he didn't need lights that were as bright as Mal's lights and the Elgato Key Light is too expensive. Stephen talks about his Fovitech Studio Pro 600 LED panels and how you technically use those lights as a cheaper and brighter alternative. But, he decided to use Dazzne LED panels as alternatives. Stephen found a video about them from YouTuber named EposVox. They were a good alternative because they were already diffused. He got both panels and stands for $160.

Stephen then talks about how the Elgato Key Light has desk mounts and how it is difficult to find desk mounts that are made for other lights. He didn't like having lights behind his desk, so he wanted desk mounts. Then, he came across a Reddit thread where they created a desk mount by taking a clamp with a screw mount on top and attaching it to a monopod. The monopod has screw mounts on both ends, so you can adjust the height as you like. Stephen says that the set up on Reddit slightly differs from his set up since they had a different set of lights that already has screw mounts on the light panels themselves, so they were able to directly screw the monopod into the LED panel.

Stephen says that he found a solution that allows him to use the desk mounts and Dazzne lights by using adapters to screw something into anything else. He recommends just having adapters in general since they are useful. Stephen then talks about how Fovitech even gave them a new power adapter since the one they got didn't work.