A new type of flash??

I don't know who these people are and I'm not holding my breath...

But there could be something in it, because new innovations really are on the horizon.

These innovations are coming from the southern, high tech areas of China,where they have built up expertise in consumer electronics and want to use spare capacity to break into the photographic market.

But what I have personally seen so far is remarkably unimpressive... The ideas are there, development is being done but it's being done in a vacuum, with the factory owners/designers knowing nothing about photography and producing designs that simply don't work in the real world.

This is bound to change at some point, and I can make an educated guess which factories will eventually get it right, but right now it all seems to be smoke and mirrors.
 
Steve T said:
Anything like this??

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1270039
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That looks like a remake of the old Sunpak and Vivitar bare bulb flashes. Not ground breaking by any means, but arguably much needed. If I was a strobist I'd certainly want one, though I'd have thought to get to the masses it would need to have TTL.

But I digress, I'm with Garry, I'm sure there will be some new stuff about, but how useful it'll be is any ones guess. :shrug:
 
Some months ago a friend of mine kept hinting to his wife about a fabulous weekend that they were going to have..

She of course had much greater expectations than the trip to Brighton really offered.

So, I hope that whatever lighting is revealed matches their promotion.
 
First comment on LR looks interesting, if it's that, and it works, then it really is an industry changer, but probably the most likely outcome, I'll stick with my Qflash.

They are just trying to create hype, if it fails to deliver then its game over, a very risky strategy.
 
Haha, there are some old cynics around here :lol: Unfortunately, including me :D

Edit: Actually, IMHO we already have some very exciting technology, just not all in one product. For example, take two hot-shoe guns and gang them together, and you have an effective 200Ws of IGBT power (400Ws if you gang four guns) plus auto-TTL and high speed sync. Give it radio remote control (preferably with PW's cool enhancements) and package it together with a lithium battery and it would recycle fast and long.

This is already possible and affordable using say Yongnuo 568 guns and YN622 triggers, but you end up with a heavy and unwieldy rig.

Quantum currently comes closest to this and is conceptually very appealing, but is clunky and expensive, lacks its claimed power, and doesn't do HSS and has a lead-acid battery.
 
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I know the forum doesn't like Qflash but I've found it to be the best portable system out there, for commercial location and editorial photography.

You can shoot up to 1/8000th sec https://BANNED/Edwardmossphoto/status/311491203235467266/photo/1 The pic was taken after a climb up a small ladder and several landings, Qpaq-X with X5d-r Qflash/Octabox.

Power is plenty for most applications.
The Qpaq-X SLA batteries are £12 to replace.
Cost isn't an issue if you buy smartly.
I've been hammering the same T5d-r for the past 4/5 years, dropped it several times and it just keeps working.
I take 3xqflash to all my jobs, I never get caught out if a client says "Oh just while you are here can you..." :)
The same system does speedlite/hotshoe and studio lighting, most importantly it never blows up, even after hundreds of full power flashes.
Coupled with brilliant support/customer service, I'm happy...

The Bowens only come out of the bag for studio style portraits..

Is this a LED only flash? http://qtm.com/index.php/products/omicron-led-ring-lights/omicron-3
 
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Garry Edwards said:
Well, LED and flash is a bit of an oxymoron but yes, it does say that it's LED.

Can't help wondering whether this wonderful new hype hyperflash could be the Frankenstein flash from Cononmark They've been hawking it around for a very long time and I remember reading that they finally found a distributor who thinks that someone might buy it:)
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The 'concept' of that Canonmark jobbie is fantastic (as I mentioned above) but the execution :gag: It's no different to putting four speedlites and triggers into a Four-Square rig.

Sometime soon maybe someone wil do it properly :love:
 
Well, if ever anyone does do it properly I know who it won't be:)
People who already know everything aren't capable of learning anything
 
HoppyUK said:
The 'concept' of that Canonmark jobbie is fantastic (as I mentioned above) but the execution :gag: It's no different to putting four speedlites and triggers into a Four-Square rig.
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Having tried one I disagree. It's far worse than using a 4-square.

I heard a hilarious story about this light but (1) it can't possibly be true and (2) I bet it's covered by an NDA.
 
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