Flash Photography Solid compact flash
I have to say this light was more than I was
expecting for the money. I have shot many years as a professional doing
both commercial and portrait photography and was suprised at the
performance of this light for the money. While I do not shoot for a
living anymore I wanted lights that were portable and could be used for
portraiture. At 300 watt seconds it is more than enough power for
portraiture even with softboxes. What surprised me the most about this
light when I first saw it was its small size - about the size of a one
pund coffee can but a little longer. It is smaller than it looks in the
pictures due to the fact that the buttons are small, but very usable.
How much light does it put out, well with ISO 200 I had a good exposure
at f11 @ 16ft using it direct with its built in reflector, this
calculates to a guide number of 88 for ISO 100 in feet.
Flash Photography Solid compact flash
The light was
even and covered the field of view for a 28mm equivalent lens. It has
continuous modeling and flash output from 1/4 to full power, yes 1/4
power not 1/8th, the specs published are wrong - it only has a 2stop
range which is a little disappointing, if it really had 1/8th power it
would be a 3 stop range. I checked this several times and it always
came out to an exact two stop range from min to max on the power dial.
The modeling lamp can either be on or off but when they are on they
ratio with the flash, so at 1/4 power you can not turn the lamp on full.
The Slave works very well and is very sensitive. It has settings for
on, off, and trigger on second flash for triggering from cameras that
have a pre-flash for red eye reduction. When going from high to low
power you have to manualy trigger the flash once to dump the capacitors
charge so it can cycle to the lower power setting.
Flash Photography Solid compact flash
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