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I am looking to replace my cheapy Interfit strobes as they are not being reliable any more and there are a few options on ebay that fit my price range. My question is: do you think a guide number of 56 for a 300Ws strobe is decent enough for use in a small'ish studio space for doing no more than three people in a sitting (especially as I will be using three of these lights)?

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That's plenty of power, probably too much in fact.

You might want to turn the question upside down - can the power be reduced far enough to allow you to use a fairly wide aperture if you want to? Many of these fleabay jobbies only reduce to something like 1/8th power (and don't always reduce as much as they claim to).

A 300 Ws flash really needs to reduce down to 1/32nd power, and still produce reasonably consistent flash energy and colour temperature consistency at low settings.
 
it claims to step down to 1/32 power so should be okay.

thanks for the reply. I did look at the Lencarta but for the amount of studio work I do I couldn't justify the extra expense. (I may live to regret that sentence ;-))
 
better off with a flash unit as it will fire when you hit the shutter button rather than trying to sync a strobe :thumbs:

JerrardM said:
I am looking to replace my cheapy Interfit strobes as they are not being reliable any more and there are a few options on ebay that fit my price range. My question is: do you think a guide number of 56 for a 300Ws strobe is decent enough for use in a small'ish studio space for doing no more than three people in a sitting (especially as I will be using three of these lights)?

thanks
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POAH said:
better off with a flash unit as it will fire when you hit the shutter button rather than trying to sync a strobe :thumbs:
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Prefer to use strobes so I can model the light. Got my 550's if I need them, maybe I can get away with just buying another one so that I have three of them instead?
 
Michael Sewell said:
Whilst technically speaking, you are correct that neither are strobes, they are colloquially referred to as strobes in printed reference literature and in reference websites such as wikipedia etc.

Oh, and in particularly, on that most revered site for those seeking the holy grail of off camera flash technique David Hobby's strobist site

So you are both right :thumbs:
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American English is not proper English
 
Michael Sewell said:
Says a Scot :clap:
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What has that got to do with anything?

Pretty sure I used the Oxford English dictionary when I wrote my phd thesis not the Glasgow version
 
POAH said:
What has that got to do with anything?

Pretty sure I used the Oxford English dictionary when I wrote my phd thesis not the Glasgow version
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LMAO

My comment was more to do with the current issue regarding possible separation of Scotland and England politically speaking etc.
Also, Glasgow produces a strong accent which I particularly like. My wife tends to have difficulty with some scots accents, but I believe that is more to do with speed of speech rather than the accent.

Mind you, I'm betting the Glaswegian dictionary is far more interesting :D
 
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