Can my studio lights do HSS?

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I've a set of Elemental MKII Genesis 400w studio lights.
Can these support high speed sync?
I've got a Nikon D750 and use Yong Nuo 622N TX and 622N's.

Head says no, just need it confirmed.
 
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HSS is a rather hi-end feature in flash photography. If it has it, it boasts it!
 
That's what I thought, too much to ask of low end flash heads from 2011, no amount of searching turned up answers . They never boasted because it never had it. Just have to try it out with my speedlights. Thanks.
 
Excuse my ignorance but why would you need HSS with studio lights?
 
wilt said:
I was going to use them outside if possible to freeze a dancer in daylight.
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To freeze a dancer in daylight, I would need a lot of my Profoto flashes output!
In other words… substantially more than 400w/s!
 
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wilt said:
I've a set of Elemental MKII Genesis 400w studio lights.
Can these support high speed sync?
I've got a Nikon D750 and use Yong Nuo 622N TX and 622N's.

Head says no, just need it confirmed.
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You can't do proper High Speed Sync as that is the exclusive preserve of IGBT-type flashes - basically speedlites that can strobe the flash extremely rapidly, creating what is effectively continuous light for the brief duration of the shutter cycle. But what you can do is tail-hypersync, and I'd guess the Elemental has quite a long flash duration that, ironically, is what's needed for this technique.

Tail-hypersync is also known under a few other names, and Yongnuo calls is SuperSync that's a feature of the YN-622Tx (assuming with Nikon it's the same as the Canon version - can't see why not). There are some drawbacks, notably a big loss of effective power and brightness that fades up the frame, but it can work well in the right circumstances and will give flash sync up to max shutter speed.

Whether or not this is right for what you're trying to do is another question ;)
 
wilt said:
I was going to use them outside if possible to freeze a dancer in daylight.
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Head for dusk and experiment with the timing and you might be in with a chance of something. But actual broad daylight? That takes some power (and high power and fast isn't a common combination)

How do you plan to power the lights? I ask as there might be some realistic options available without spending the entire of your household income
 
Was just going to run an extension cable to them. As it's in the garden. I'd like to have went further but I don't think studio lights would work well with a generator (probably blow them up)
 
wilt said:
Was just going to run an extension cable to them. As it's in the garden. I'd like to have went further but I don't think studio lights would work well with a generator (probably blow them up)
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Like everything else there is the right bit of kit and the wrong bit of kit, absolutely no problem with my Honda generator

Mike
 
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