Recent content by SamR Photo

Ha yes I have an x-rite. :) It’ll be a great day for my back when they get electronic shutter. cheers Sam

Or I wonder why they can't make the shutter travel faster?!

yep, the specs say the flash duration is about 1/240th on full power. Yep that's what I'm talking about - oh well good to know and thanks for the info. I do quite a lot of fine art reproduction so evenly exposed across the full frame is mission critical. I set up and shoot quite a lot in...

Hey yep cheers. I know all that. Tricky to reduce ambient in some studios! Just wanting to know if they’ll sync at 200th or above if anyone knows. :)

Thanks for your reply Richard. I didn't really want to go much below 500w but thought I could get away with it with the Godox. The Bowens (and possible AD400s) are for things like studio catalogue style work normally. I normally use a fairly large calumet soft box (about 120cm?) as a fill...

Hey, thanks so much for your detailed reply Richard - it's great to understand this issue better. Now I know the flash pulse for speed lights is much shorter (which is not surprising at 50 watts or so), which is why they can sync at 200th or 250th. However I was told that the flash pulse of the...

That's super interesting, it's almost like pumping them up to 800 heads (shutter speed wise) compared to the old Bowens. If that's the case I'm surprised it's not mentioned more.

I disagree. I shoot this kind of painting a lot, if it's making this glare problem it's normally for me ibecause the light is too close and not enough of an angle away to the side (so more than 45 degrees going away from you). The usual problem is I'm not in a space large enough to spread the...

(Should have mentioned I'm using a Canon 5D mk4).

Hey there, just a quick one: I've used Bowens 500 heads for a decade now. Flash sync speed (using Godox X-Pro and any other system really) is 1/125. If I go faster there's a subtle curtain blur at the side of the frame, about a half stop or so. darker in the last 20%. I want to get a pair...