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Aputure Amaran 100D
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Mark Ellis
His key light. The Amaran 100D is the daylight-only sibling of the 100x S — same 100W COB form factor, bowens mount, accepts the same softboxes. For a fixed desk shot, daylight-only is fine since you're not colour-matching to changing room light.
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