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Alan Browne wrote:
Borghesia wrote: My vote for Alien Bees, for price, reputation and being a complete system. On paper (or website) absolutely agree. The only thing I would have reservations about would be location work. Not sure they would handle the abuse as well. Cheers, Alan I drag my Alien Bees to weddings all the time. I've never had a problem with them. True, I'm not much of an abuser of equipment, but they do seem to be pretty darn tough. AB's service is excellent too. Well, I've just asked questions, but you won't get much friendlier or knowledgeable. My question for the original question is: Do you really need that much power? I have the Alien Bees 400 strobes. I shoot wedding groups of all sizes with them. At F8, I rarely have the power level much over half power. I would think that with 800s you would have to crank it down to 1/32 all the time. Highly recommend Alien Bees. Clyde |
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Alan Browne wrote:
Borghesia wrote: My vote for Alien Bees, for price, reputation and being a complete system. On paper (or website) absolutely agree. The only thing I would have reservations about would be location work. Not sure they would handle the abuse as well. Cheers, Alan I drag my Alien Bees to weddings all the time. I've never had a problem with them. True, I'm not much of an abuser of equipment, but they do seem to be pretty darn tough. AB's service is excellent too. Well, I've just asked questions, but you won't get much friendlier or knowledgeable. My question for the original question is: Do you really need that much power? I have the Alien Bees 400 strobes. I shoot wedding groups of all sizes with them. At F8, I rarely have the power level much over half power. I would think that with 800s you would have to crank it down to 1/32 all the time. Highly recommend Alien Bees. Clyde |
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Clyde wrote:
My question for the original question is: Do you really need that much power? I have the Alien Bees 400 strobes. I shoot wedding groups of all sizes with them. At F8, I rarely have the power level much over half power. I would think that with 800s you would have to crank it down to 1/32 all the time. flexibilty in number of stops is as important as top end power. Having enough power to blast through a softbox or off of an umbrella and light a widish scene (10 - 15 people wide) is a nice luxury as well. Striking the balance is what you need to do. I could see having 2 800's and a 400 for all the margin in the world... but likely a few 400's would be more than enough for most situations. Cheers, Alan -- -- rec.photo.equipment.35mm user resource: -- http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch.-- |
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Clyde wrote:
My question for the original question is: Do you really need that much power? I have the Alien Bees 400 strobes. I shoot wedding groups of all sizes with them. At F8, I rarely have the power level much over half power. I would think that with 800s you would have to crank it down to 1/32 all the time. flexibilty in number of stops is as important as top end power. Having enough power to blast through a softbox or off of an umbrella and light a widish scene (10 - 15 people wide) is a nice luxury as well. Striking the balance is what you need to do. I could see having 2 800's and a 400 for all the margin in the world... but likely a few 400's would be more than enough for most situations. Cheers, Alan -- -- rec.photo.equipment.35mm user resource: -- http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch.-- |
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"Clyde" wrote in message
news:_B9ed.230368$wV.177422@attbi_s54... My question for the original question is: Do you really need that much power? I have the Alien Bees 400 strobes. I shoot wedding groups of all sizes with them. At F8, I rarely have the power level much over half power. I would think that with 800s you would have to crank it down to 1/32 all the time. Highly recommend Alien Bees. Interestingly, the only flash system listed that gets commented on is the Alien Bees My big worry is more the fact that all I hear is that the modeling lamps are low powered. That they will not be usable in daylight, according to several. Both of the other units are useable. My primary problem is in truth, current budget, but that changes with time. Oddly enough, I now have one more thing I need to do: photograph paintings (film for that, gonna need another SLR I think, maybe a 167?). So softbox effect is needed. As for power: I want an expandable system. They do not need to be homogenous, but it must be expandble beyond my current limitations. I keep ending up learning something that I want to go beyond, and end up needing more capability. As such, I may at some point do some MF or even LF (I like view cameras atually). And at that point, the more power the better. Thanks all! Robert Meyers |
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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 01:41:15 -0700, "Robert Meyers"
wrote: Interestingly, the only flash system listed that gets commented on is the Alien Bees Well, my opinion, for what it's worth: I love my Norman system. It's pack and heads but it's got great power. I can get 2000 ws out of one head or I can get 200 ws out of one head. Light modifiers like different sized parabolics, barn doors, softboxes, etc. go cheap on ebay and are plentiful. They have 150 watt quartz modelling lights which put out enough light for any tungsten work you want to do. For the price of a couple of alien bees you can have a complete system with 4 heads and enough accessories to set up a complete portrait studio. |
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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 01:41:15 -0700, "Robert Meyers"
wrote: Interestingly, the only flash system listed that gets commented on is the Alien Bees Well, my opinion, for what it's worth: I love my Norman system. It's pack and heads but it's got great power. I can get 2000 ws out of one head or I can get 200 ws out of one head. Light modifiers like different sized parabolics, barn doors, softboxes, etc. go cheap on ebay and are plentiful. They have 150 watt quartz modelling lights which put out enough light for any tungsten work you want to do. For the price of a couple of alien bees you can have a complete system with 4 heads and enough accessories to set up a complete portrait studio. |
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