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it is time for our two favorite medium
strobes what are these well these are
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four to five times the power of pocket
strobes yet they are still more portable
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than a full studio strobe and we're not
even covering really studio strobes in
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this course is going to be saved for
later down the road but we will be doing
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quite a bit of medium strobe action
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why because you're going to find out
clashing with a flash not Lake / people
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that are walking by you on the street
but with for purposes of photography
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when you are in midday Sun light and you
are trying to add light to see if you
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want to overpower the Sun and use a
light modifier a pocket strobe is not
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going to be enough that's what we have
to turn to at least medium strobes if
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not going to fall scrubs immediate so
for the most part will be able to
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overpower the Sun even with
modifications so long as they are held
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at least somewhat close to the subject
where the Pakistani you need three to
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five of them to be able to do the same
thing that gets cumbersome ok so let's
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talk about our two favorite media throws
these are struck that we've taken on
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many many shoots these are brands and
well brands as in Provo we've used a lot
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and bolt that we've used a lot honorable
and different names and so forth but
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these are just too flattered that we've
used enough to recommend wholeheartedly
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let's start from this site we have one
options for presenting two options to
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you one is a high-power manual flash
this is a manual medium strobe the other
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one is a high-power this is a
full-feature medium strobe over on the
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right side the Profoto b2 ok so manual
full feature so over here on the left
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side you can see we have the this is the
bully me 22 at this is actually the
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bully be 22 sorry this guy right here
the boat v22 it looks like frankenstein
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looks like this crazy thing it's open
bold flash which is kind of nice for
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several things if these bold burnout you
can replace them very very easily
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they're very inexpensive and you can be
good to go again the unit is very
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well-built actually but you'll notice
that this is Brandon a bolt if you buy
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the serbian age it's sold under the bold
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hand but if you buy this from other
brands like you can actually buy from
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cheetah and I'll be branded a cheat out
there also
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godot I think the original brand was
actually go ducks Gio DOI X but
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regardless of the brand that actually
made the same place and they just you
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know brand them accordingly based on
where they're going and so forth in the
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world and whatever retailer I don't know
its confusing frankly as a consumer I
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find it kind of irritating but whatever
but he's worked extremely well now ted
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have are to be sleep our this guy you're
going to need the battery pack so this
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is the cyclone PPE 4,000 Dr with the
most ridiculous name the world and in a
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way what is the VD 22 even mean I don't
know I don't know why they can't give
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them more simple into whatever so with
these are gonna have to have a little
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cable is going to connect you to the
battery pack now going to show you that
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cable without hopefully dropping my
battery pack their ago this is the
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little coiled cable that comes with you
can also get a double headed cable ok so
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you can get a cable that will actually
go to both these ports when you're
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firing one single flash that will reduce
the recycle time by about half so the
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recycle time when you're using full
power is about seven seconds now that
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sounds like a lot it is actually a lot
but with that cable it takes it down to
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3.5 seconds or around four seconds and
the other thing you remember is that you
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are firing at one of one power is
equivalent to four to five pockets
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probes which means that you don't have
to use this at full power but if you do
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you're gonna be looking at a minimum of
four seconds up to seven seconds and so
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forth recycled depending on which cable
you're using but price point is 509
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bucks for the V 22 along with the
battery pack that for your a single
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flash head now we have to add on
third-party radio systems or you can
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also I believe gold at least the other
brands so go docs has their own radio
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triggering system we didn't get it for
the both of them enough is available at
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that time but it is available they have
their own third-party system they have
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their own factory system you can get to
trigger thats
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we were using hot weather plus three
switch if you get two of these that 300
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bucks extra so eight or nine bucks for
basically one off camera flash head now
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if you want to stack two heads you're
looking at another 400 $500 so around
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$1300 your price point if you want to
head for double the power off of that
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single battery pack December recycled
times will suffer the more you try and
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run through a single battery pack ok so
you're looking around that rough price
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range but you're getting four to five
times the powers while it sounds like a
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lot if you were to get 40 takes meet
rose or five metres flashes to match
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this you're looking at phar-mor you
looking at 1600 a $2,000 even if you're
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trying i mean and that becomes very
cumbersome I mean how are you gonna fire
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those five flashes together to match the
power of this so if you need the power
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it's a great option ok is very simple to
use that one of the pros it's super
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simple user interface on the back is
very easy just opened up and start going
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it's very powerful it's rated at 361
second I always say be cautious of
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factory settings ok our factory ratings
because it's roughly four to five
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pockets drugs which puts it around like
maybe 250 to 300 watt seconds I don't
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know about 360 but whatever it's it's
always based on how they decide to
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measure it there's not really a
standardized system to go across the
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board on that so it's relatively
inexpensive for the power that you're
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getting we have a high capacity external
battery it's simple to use and we have
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replaceable bulbs now the cons is that
it's a manual flash only ok so you don't
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have reoccurrence think you don't have
high speed sync or any of that which
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means that you're gonna need to use
neutral density filters if you're using
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a manual flash and you don't have high
speed sync with that manual flash then