I see, this is different/special. I our camera club, the club owns the strobe-outfit consisting 8 Courtney and Visatec strobes - including sofboxes, honey comb filters, snoots etc. It's mounted in special rails in the cieling and there's several rolls of background paper. It's true that this would be too expensive (and unnecessary) for one person to get.
In my experience, however, a strobe outfit consisting of several camera flashes is in fact more expensive and less reliable than an old an fashioned strobe outfit. A 2 or 3 oiece outfit is often cheaper (used) as a single camera flash, which has a lot of automatics, you don't really need for studio work. I myself own an outfit made out of 4 old Metz CT 45's and 1 Metz CT 60. It's a PITA to use because of all the cords, sensors, power supplies, pilot light arrangemenst etc. But I still use it from time to time for assignments outside the studio. Before Chrismas I had an assignment (26 portraits and one group shot). I rented a 3 piece (Two 600 Ws and one 1200 Ws) Elinchrome outfit for 1 day, for which I paid 100 USD. It was well worth it. The Rotalux softboxes are simply brilliant. Likewise the electronic controled flash units. They are however, rather expensive. One 600Ws is appr. 2000 USD! But I could buy a 3 piece Chinese outfit (Walimex) for less than the cost of one Pentax AF500 FTZ flash! In stead of infrared triggering, I often use a cheap 3 piece radio trigger device, I got off ebay. Works rather well. And it's wireless too. Regards Jens Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Adam Maas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 14. januar 2006 18:47 Til: [email protected] Emne: Re: new AF system soon (when D2 arrives)? Jens, We're mostly amateurs, using wireless flash one stands with umbrellas, not full-on studio strobes (Which only a couple people in a group of several hundred own, many more happen to own EX series flashes and the necessary accessories). And a D will not trigger a ST-E2, I've tried. It's actually surprising how well multiple wireless flashes works as long as you don't run out of power. -Adam Jens Bladt wrote: >Adam wrote ><different one can cause problems for you at certain events, like studio ><shoots, when you can't take advantage of gear sharing). > >My *ist D works perfectly normal with an Elinchrome strobe outfit. No >problems. >Some flash units requires, that some cameras (not just Pentax) are connected >after reversing the polarity of the flash cord. >That's not a real problem. Easily solved, and invovleves several camera >brands. My camera club just invested in an extra cord, so the members can >choose the right cord for the right camera. > > >Jens Bladt >http://www.jensbladt.dk > >-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- >Fra: Adam Maas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sendt: 14. januar 2006 06:59 >Til: [email protected] >Emne: Re: new AF system soon (when D2 arrives)? > > >--SNIP-- > > >But There is a major performance gap, and it's one reason I've left >Pentax for AF/Digital bodies. Not the main reason though (That was >logistics. When everyone in the club shoots one brand, having a >different one can cause problems for you at certain events, like studio >shoots, when you can't take advantage of gear sharing). > >-Adam > > > >
