Hello Glen, With the Alien Bees - 1 full power and 1 half power it would be about f16 shot into umbrellas. The Af360FGZ's would have had a Lumiquest softbox diffuser.
-- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, September 28, 2005, 10:09:54 AM, you wrote: G> At 12:48 PM 9/28/2005, Bruce Dayton wrote: >>On top of that, the >>power difference was quite major. With the portable flashes, I could >>only achieve about f5.6 at full power with ISO 160 film. I found that >>to be inadequate most of the time. When shooting that type of stuff >>with a background, many times you'd like the whole subject in focus. >>It was also hard to set and see ratios. G> Okay, if your aperture was 5.6 with the portables, what would it be with G> the Alien Bee monolights? G> Thanks, for the link to Alien Bee. I'll check it out right now. G> thanks, G> Glen
