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As we move into the receiver units, these are not capable of being used on camera. They are also not brand-specific and will be fully-featured using any of the above transmitters and transceivers. Receivers Since the release of the 600 PRO, Godox and Flashpoint have released smaller 400, 300, 200, and 100Ws cordless strobes, which are all great options as well. It just depends on what will suit your own needs and budget best. And you can mix always and match lights in the system as well.
Textiles are a good litmus test for colour consistency, mainly because textile clients will know if their product is correctly coloured, or not. And they can spot a 100 degrees kelvin difference a mile off, I kid you not! Once you’ve attached the bulb, you’ve got a bulb-shaped hole that you can’t really do anything with (unless you want to carry a spare), but at least you can fit a couple of XPro triggers in the slot that held the Bowens adapter. With the new Stable Colour Temperature Mode, the Godox AD600 Pro will maintain colour temperature at 5600K with a variation of just 75K across the entire power output range, allowing extreme colour temperature stability. The colour consistency is now matched by other Off-Camera Flash (OCF) units, such as Elinchrom with their ELB 500 TTL, which I reviewed previously HERE. I have to say, the AD600 Pro has stood the test of time extremely well. I used it in various scenarios such as the following product shot. Due to its size, the AD100 Pro is a great light to hold and maneuver as you need. Because it is so light and small, it is perfect for squeezing into tight spaces and angles to achieve the perfect lighting. It can also be simply held in your hand and moved around accordingly which isn’t possible or can be uncomfortable with bigger and heavier lights.When we initially set out that day to test the XPro-P trigger, we hadn’t planned to have the AD400 Pro audition for us at the same time. We had originally hoped to use the AD200, but we ended up not doing. The reasons why we didn’t use the AD200 will be explained in the XPro-P review in a few days, but it forced us to use the AD400 Pro.
This having been said, the AD100 Pro isn’t the most powerful of lights, in fact, it is the least powerful of the AD range, meaning that it may not be what every photographer needs! If you require more power from your flash or need a burst of light to overpower the sun, this isn’t the flash for you! The first time I used the XPLOR 600PRO was at a wedding. Risky business, but thankfully the unit came through. The chosen portrait location was in full sun in the middle of a bright summer day. I put the XPLOR 600PRO in an un-diffused 72” white Savage bounce umbrella and cranked the power to 1/1. The portrait shoot went off without a hitch, even when I was surprised with a group of 35 people to photograph. Flashpoint, one; sun, zero.The XPro is the newest transmitter that marries the feature set of the X1-T and the improved design of the XT32. It has the largest display which is slanted, is TTL/HSS capable, has individual buttons for selecting a group, and adds a TCM feature for converting a TTL output to manual. Transceivers On all three Nikon, Sony and Pentax cameras, it fired every single time, and the TTL exposures were pretty close to where we’d have put the exposure if we were doing it manually. This XPLOR 600Pro TTL can be linked and synced to be triggered wirelessly in complete TTL operation with any R2 transmitting member of the R2 Family: The prodigious Flashpoint models of Streaklight 360, Zoom Speedlights, R2T and R2Pro Remote Transmitters - all work seamlessly to clear the path onto the challenge of mastering the light, wherever you go. Absorb it well, and the mighty lighting tool you have before you will become a beacon of power in your arsenal of creative photography. The AD200 Pro and the AD200 have an awful lot in common; both lights offer 200Ws of power, a transmission range of 100m, TTL and HSS capabilities, 32 channels, around 500 full-power flashes, as well as both offering a lightweight and portable flash photography option.
The R2 TTL Wireless Flash System is the advanced 2.4GHz radio remote that adds camera TTL dedicated custom functions to your multi flash experience. Easy to use buttons command a full range of functions like reliable channel triggering, group mode selectivity, HSS, all with powerful signal strength and exceptional stability to your selected camera flash language. LED panels clearly display the status of all remotely linked R2 compliant strobes so you always have control of group lighting mastery. R2 wireless communication gives speed of light response to on camera or off camera R2 Family devices for a spectacular advantage on the shoot in any environment. I’m really hoping that Godox announces an AD200 Pro at some point in the near future to complete the “Pro” lineup and make this choice a little easier. Given the recent release of the H200R round head and EC200 extension head for the AD200, I think we’ll be waiting a while. But the AD400 Pro proved to us that it could handle the vast majority of situations any of us would find ourselves in for both our personal and paid photography work.So Flashpoint are currently lookinginto different 7″ reflector options that may suit the 600 PRO better. With built-in Godox 2.4G X wireless system, AD600Pro is compatible with Canon E-TTLII, Nikon i-TTL autoflash, Sony, FUJIFILM, Olympus Panasonic and TTL autoflash system.With this AD600 flash, your shooting will become simpler. But regardless of whether we were shooting within sync or at 1/1000th of a second, the AD400 Pro never missed a beat. Of course, most of us wouldn’t expect it to, but this is possibly the first time that anybody has tried it on a Pentax camera outside of the Godox test labs. The flash head itself has had a bit of a redesign, with a little extra added sleekness. It now has cleaner, rounder curves, with an easier to see read button layout. You’ll note that while both strobes are Bowens S-Fit, the new design features a new style of reflector. And inside that reflector is a newly designed bulb & fixture design, too. It’s been speculated, although we won’t know until we can get one in our hands, that this adds potentially up to a stop of output due to better efficiency. This has come as a bit of a disappointment to some, but given the, theoretically, more efficient bulb design, you potentially match the AD600 power at up to a stop below full power. So, ultimately, you’ll probably get about the same performance out of the two, but with the option of a little extra power when you need it with the AD600 Pro.
There is a nice simple custom function menu, with numerous options available. The Alternate firing and Mask functions being nice new features. The Westcott FJ400 is slightly larger than the Godox AD400 Pro. Westcott claims that they wanted a higher-capacity battery, so they made the housing a little taller and the battery much bigger. The FJ400 can fire off around 490 full-power flashes, while the Godox can fire 390. Very consistent, and the slight change in decimal point is more likely down to the subtle movement of the meter during the test. Pretty much bang on.
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The color mode yields impressive accuracy, though at the expense of auto-dumping. In color mode, when you lower the power the flash will beep at you until you dump it yourself. To do so, just hit the test button.
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