Studio flash and high speed sync

They look very much like powerful fluorescent lights to me. Are they not?

G

Ken doesn't say they're not, just that they're better than the ES fitting ones you mentioned George.

Although I don't know what the ES ones are like, have you got a link?

Dan

And what (in the Diva-Lite kit) is a "Lollipop with Baby Receiver"?

Dan

I was quite taken with the floozy, myself

The tubes come in Tugsten and Dalylight balance and are flicker free, they are also dimmable. I find that using all daylight tubes is too cold and all tungsten too warm so I tend to use three daylight and one tungsten or vice versa. They also have barn doors. They come in a wide range of sizes from 6 inches (ideal for use in cars and indeed they can run off the car cigarette lighter) up to banks of 18 6ft tubes. There is also a white nylon diffuser which gives a really great quality of light.

However, getting back to McBrian's OP, no use at all for stopping motion!

Ken

They are clearly fluorescent lamps, colour-balanced either for daylight or for tungsten, so that in the latter case they can be used to augment ambient interior lighting.

I suspect they are also very expensive, though no doubt very good.

But do you have practical experience of the lamps I referred to, and in what way are they inferior to Kinos (apart from being much cheaper )?

G

Four such lamps, mounted in a large bucket that was used as the reflector. Picture by me, bucket by my ADAPS friend Harry Gladson.

John, we tried them, by them I mean the curly sort I think Interfit and others do, on a shoot as practicals and found the output wasn't sufficient, less than old style photofloods. From this less than scientific appraisal I formed the opinion that in any sort of studio situation you might really be struggling and by that I mean shooting wide open at 1/30 or something. I have to confess that I do seem to be rather spoiled in the lighting area using several 10K lamps at once regularly. On the other hand we often work at very low light levels with the luxury of T* f1.2 Distagons wide open at 1/50th (not on a Pentax unfortunately). So, in conclusion, the lamps you mention will have their uses undoubtedly but I prefer my little budget flash heads for still studio work.

Ken

Great picture.

G