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Re: Any worthwhile MF innovation to be expected at Kina?
« Reply #60 on: September 15, 2010, 03:00:26 pm »



Altough this is impressive technology that might be useful in extreme situations, we´ve had this before: studio strobes (including the fastest packs like Pro8 or Bron Scoro) set to an average power from lets assume about 800Ws will have a longer flash duration than 1/1600s, so you loose a lot of the light emitted by simply cutting the time.

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Exactly.   

We shoot a lot of frozen moments with people and nothing freezes an image like a short flash duration and nothing gives you a short duration like cutting the power.

What really is needed is 400 to 800 iso very clean and then you can run most packs or monoblocs at lower power and freeze it solid and unless you have a lot of ambient light kicking around, the flash sync is irrelevant.

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Re: Any worthwhile MF innovation to be expected at Kina?
« Reply #61 on: September 15, 2010, 03:14:20 pm »

What really is needed is 400 to 800 iso very clean and then you can run most packs or monoblocs at lower power and freeze it solid and unless you have a lot of ambient light kicking around, the flash sync is irrelevant.

Agreed 100%.

Another way of sayings that is "when you have a lot of ambient light kicking around, the flash sync speed is critical" :-).

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Re: Any worthwhile MF innovation to be expected at Kina?
« Reply #62 on: September 15, 2010, 03:24:22 pm »

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Agreed 100%.

Another way of sayings that is "when you have a lot of ambient light kicking around, the flash sync speed is critical" :-).



It depends on how you work, but I don't think I've ever been in a situation where flash was involved and we needed to freeze a moment that we hadn't planned on limiting the ambient light anyway.  

How many people that buy a $30,000, to $40,000 camera don't come prepared for their creative brief?

It's kind of a double edged sword.  You can raise the power and get longer durations and I guess with your system sync at 1/1600th but overall your still cutting into the flash, or just lower the power and get a shorter flash duration which probably works out about even.

Or you can buy the new profoto 8's though they have a very heavy draw from the mains and cost more than a space shot.  Actually I think most of the pro 8 use is from rentals.

Regardless, it's nice that phase has upped the sync under certain situations, but  a bigger innovation would be clean higher iso, as that covers a lot more territory and is much more economical for the whole production.

When it comes to buying and/or renting and how it impacts the production, there is "want" and there is "must have".   To freeze action with flash "must have" is a short duration.

We all like new equipment, we all like fun stuff, but now, well it has it fall into the must have category to open a wallet.

BC
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Re: Any worthwhile MF innovation to be expected at Kina?
« Reply #63 on: September 15, 2010, 03:39:49 pm »

Agreed 100%.

Another way of sayings that is "when you have a lot of ambient light kicking around, the flash sync speed is critical" :-).



in this case I´d prefer 25ASA...

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« Reply #64 on: September 15, 2010, 04:12:21 pm »

... and nothing gives you a short duration like cutting the power.

I'm not sure I buy this statement.  It is certainly true that cutting power to flashes using IGBT circuits will shorten the duration, but I think it is not true of "normal" studio strobes.
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Re: Any worthwhile MF innovation to be expected at Kina?
« Reply #65 on: September 15, 2010, 04:53:12 pm »

I'm not sure I buy this statement.  It is certainly true that cutting power to flashes using IGBT circuits will shorten the duration, but I think it is not true of "normal" studio strobes.

It's true of the Profoto Acute, Acute-B, D4, Compacts, Pro-7, Pro-8 for sure.

Don't know as much about other brand's flash durations.

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Re: Any worthwhile MF innovation to be expected at Kina?
« Reply #66 on: September 15, 2010, 04:57:28 pm »

in this case I´d prefer 25ASA...

Lower ISO sure helps in some cases. Of course at lower ISO you need more power to your packs forany given aperture. Which if you're trying to do very fast freezing of motion then requires you to turn up your pack power (or add additional packs or move the light closer etc) which increases flash duration.

Best option [bias alert!] is to have a back/body/light/transmitter system that has a wide range of sub-ISO-100 options (which aren't fake settings like Canon's ISO50) with a leaf shutter system that allows down to 1/1600th sync without losing light. Then you can do just about anything. Like any of the Aptus-II line and the P40+ / P65+ on a DF body.

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« Reply #67 on: September 16, 2010, 04:04:14 am »

Actually I never spoke of freezing motion, I would try to get rid of the ambient light with the shutter speed. Extreme short exposure times will limit the use of strobes if a bit of power is needed. It might be nice to have, but I´ll second BC, absolutely no must have, I am sure, until now I have never used a shorter shutter speed than 1/320s with my H series Blad. Freezing motion with strobes is achieved using short flash duration.

Regarding shorter flash duration when dialing down power, a rule of thumb could be, if your strobe is color corrected within its power range it will have shorter flash duration with less power. You don´t necessarily need an IGBT controlled flash cut off (Broncolor Scoro and Grafit) for that, the other way is not using all of the capacitors (Profoto and others) "Old classical" designs with 3 or 4 stops of variation will also vary in color temp and even tend to have a longer flash duration at lower power. As a photographer it is good to know your equipment and its limits.

Curious what I might discover this time at Kina...

Cheers, Ulf

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Re: Any worthwhile MF innovation to be expected at Kina?
« Reply #68 on: September 16, 2010, 08:34:41 am »

Freezing motion with strobes is achieved using short flash duration.

Freezing motion with strobes is achieved by BOTH
- using short flash duration to expose subject sharply
- reducing ambient light exposure enough to avoid ghosting

Of course in a studio you can "reduce ambient light exposure" by turning the lights off (or far down relative to your shooting aperture/ISO). Outdoors you can only "reduce ambient light exposure" by lowering camera ISO, stopping down, or reducing shutter speed.

Trust me I'm not saying many shots at all would require 1/1600 sync speed - we've lived with 1/400-1/800 for a while. But I'm sure we can all agree that raising a technical limitation like that reduces the chance that your creative intention will be limited by a camera specification.

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Re: Any worthwhile MF innovation to be expected at Kina?
« Reply #69 on: September 16, 2010, 09:28:20 am »

Great they have built-in tripod mounts.

exactly - and you know what this means: you can lock the lens, and the shifting movement will move the body.  so... you can stitch perfectly!

It's a very simple lens design - just 6 elements, so shouldn't be SO expensive. ha ha.

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Re: Any worthwhile MF innovation to be expected at Kina?
« Reply #70 on: September 16, 2010, 10:12:53 am »

Doug,

I see what you mean, and of course you are right. What I originally tried to say is: Be prepared that if you use a (slow) strobe and you would need for example 1600Ws to light your subject to achieve the desired aperture the use of the fast shutter speed will cut your flash and the whole system might not perform the way you intended.
Regardless, this is an impressive technology and might be helpful for some situations. Believe me, I am more than happy to be able to use the advanced features of todays cameras and lighting equipment, they are pushing boundaries to a complete different level. But still, you have to know their limitations ;)

Cheers, Ulf

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Re: Any worthwhile MF innovation to be expected at Kina?
« Reply #71 on: September 16, 2010, 10:25:15 am »

Doug,

I see what you mean, and of course you are right. What I originally tried to say is: Be prepared that if you use a (slow) strobe and you would need for example 1600Ws to light your subject to achieve the desired aperture the use of the fast shutter speed will cut your flash and the whole system might not perform the way you intended.
Regardless, this is an impressive technology and might be helpful for some situations. Believe me, I am more than happy to be able to use the advanced features of todays cameras and lighting equipment, they are pushing boundaries to a complete different level. But still, you have to know their limitations ;)

Cheers, Ulf
Maybe you fellas can create a new topic post for this.
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Re: Any worthwhile MF innovation to be expected at Kina?
« Reply #72 on: September 16, 2010, 12:22:53 pm »

As I recall Adrew Zuckerman's 'frozen' shots (the water baloon, milk, etc) were shot with a hasselblad, 1/800. These were sharp, no smudging / smoothness caused by motion. I wonder what 1/1600 could be used for..
overkill?
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Re: Any worthwhile MF innovation to be expected at Kina?
« Reply #73 on: September 16, 2010, 03:25:22 pm »

As I recall Adrew Zuckerman's 'frozen' shots (the water baloon, milk, etc) were shot with a hasselblad, 1/800. These were sharp, no smudging / smoothness caused by motion. I wonder what 1/1600 could be used for..
overkill?

these shots wouldn't have had ambient light as a factor (ie over powered or just a dark room). so shutter doesnt matter as it only controls ambient.

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Re: Any worthwhile MF innovation to be expected at Kina?
« Reply #74 on: September 16, 2010, 03:44:05 pm »

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Re: Any worthwhile MF innovation to be expected at Kina?
« Reply #75 on: September 16, 2010, 04:16:02 pm »

As I recall Adrew Zuckerman's 'frozen' shots (the water baloon, milk, etc) were shot with a hasselblad, 1/800. These were sharp, no smudging / smoothness caused by motion. I wonder what 1/1600 could be used for..
overkill?

Yes in fact I did a series like that with medium format film with a shutter speed of 8" so that I could manually trigger the flash during the exposure. However, this only works if you can control the ambient light (e.g. turn off the modeling lights and room lights and block out the windows).

Try to freeze fast action during the day and shutter speed at which your flash will sync at full power becomes very important.

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« Reply #76 on: September 16, 2010, 05:49:06 pm »

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