Thanks!
Yeah, a Fresnel is great for recreating direct sunlight, and the light is beautiful on almost everything. I'm a cinematographer so I use them all the time. But don't have them on strobes, and it's been hard for me to recreate direct sunlight on studio with strobes, that's why I ask. And for stills I prefer to use strobes rather than continuos lighting.
I'll have a look at the Narrow beam, I don't have Profoto, I use Bowens and Visatec for studio monolights, and Godox AD360II and AD600 for location.
I think all manufactures have some type of super hard reflector, which is was the Narrow Beam is.
The problem though is you are dealing with a ring of light and no lens, so the shadow quality is not going to be great.
With the dedicated fresnel heads, they fold the flash tube around itself to produce more of a point source, and the giant lens really help to make the shadows ohh so nice.
The only downside is they cost like $10K.