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all right we're back from lunch with a
little bit of food come and gone but
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that's right we're gonna power through
this and buy power through mean we do
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have another 13th of the videos in this
chapter so let's get started in this
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video we recover quickly are three
favorite pocket strobes now among this
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let's start with number one the phottix
meet rose this little guy is 400 bucks
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now this is my favorite off-camera flash
and this is the full feature off-camera
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flash including a built in radio system
so what are the pros about this guy will
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cost 400 bucks and for that price it's
actually less expensive as it actually
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it's actually less expensive than the
Canon equivalent which is the Canon 600
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X RT and icon doesn't even have an
equivalent so if you're shooting Canon
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or Nikon this comes with both variants
were hoping that they open up two
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additional brands in the future like say
Sony and so forth so we can by Pete Rose
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pluses for those now along with this you
have full Peter you have TTL you think
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you have high speed sync you have all
the functionality including built-in
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radio system it has grouping it has
channel that has four different groups
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as channels has everything you possibly
need and you have a couple different
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options you can actually control all the
off camera flashes with another vote
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experience plus that amounted to your
camera or you can simply use the phottix
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Odin this guy the Odin transceiver and
it can control the group's if you don't
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want to have a flash on your camera now
this guy the benefit is he's a little
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bit less expensive than buying another
meters + to simply control of the
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off-camera units also find it a little
easier to use as well
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ok the only downside really with the
footage me dress plus that I would say
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is worth mentioning is just that the
overall menu system the user interface
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could be a little bit better it's a
little bit clunky kind of moving around
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and kind of adjusting powers very
quickly and for most of you you won't
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really running up that difference or
that kind of
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nuisance I guess but for some that shoot
like events like say for us I'm costly
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turning on and off different groups and
making adjustments very quickly the
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adjustments are fairly simple to make
but I wish there was a way in interface
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that you can click one button to get to
each different option and to make 11
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adjustments to turn on and off like you
would say the grouping on a pocket
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wizard with the PocketWizard if you want
a group turned on or off with a hit that
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button once and so it's very very simple
so I do hope that in the next iteration
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of this series you know there's going to
be more versions and hopefully they can
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address that little bit about you I
issue but still is by far my favorite
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flash overall and it comes with all the
other standards like has you know
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obviously has a good recycle time the
good wireless range has external power
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input has 3.5 million or sync port in
case you need that and it also has a
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medal hockey so there's a kind of
standard that we've kinda you know just
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assume that these flashes should have my
number to this guys went over to so this
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is the full Peter guy which is 300 nm 99
bucks which puts its total cost per
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off-camera flash at $400 this is the
loop OLP 180 it comes at $200 but the
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only thing is you need either the
PocketWizard plus three or some other
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radio trigger to fire this now a
PocketWizard X is a hundred bucks the +
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349 bucks and that brings the total cost
per off-camera flash to roughly around
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300 to $350 granted there are less
expensive radio triggers out there but I
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don't like using them professionally
because they do have consistency issues
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in firing and triggering and so forth
but the POC wizard series works
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fantastically well with the limit pro
what are some of the pros of this well
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number one for a manual flash it is
built extremely well it has a very very
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solid build quality to it
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number two it's a very simple interface
on the back side we have just basic
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options to go up or you know right left
we have we can put in a slave mode if
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you want to use infrared we have a test
button it very very simple the user
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interface is just kind of like open up
out of the box and just run with it it's
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really easy to use
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also some cool things that we have on
here is a quarter 24 right here on the
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side so we can mount quarter twenty
screwed directly to this which means
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that I could put this into a light
standard just like this if I didn't have
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a shoe or something else do you kind of
put on to it so it makes it very easy to
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mount and to do whatever you want to the
side with a quarter twenty whole quarter
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twenty whole quarter twenty screw hole
quarter 24 I don't care has fantastic
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wireless range when you're using the
popular with these now we've done
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extensive popular testing and on certain
flash units you run into wireless issues
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usually due to interference like say
PocketWizard and Canon 580 X 214
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thirties they have a major issue with
interference this guy's been tested and
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it works
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solidly has great range very consistent
results and so forth we all have really
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good recycle times has external power
input so he wanted to power the device
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externally we could do that or you're
basically get better recycled times with
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that will have a medal hockey you the
only cons of this guy is that it is
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manual control only obviously so this is
a manual flash mean that we don't have
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to DL details on a big deal we never
used to deal anyway but we don't have
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rear curtain sync we don't have first
currency options we don't have high
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speed sync all those additional features
we do not have so you can you're gonna
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be adjusting your power settings
directly from each off-camera flash
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which means that you know if you're
using this in conjunction with the
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PocketWizard and you need to power the /
upper down then you need to either
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yourself or have a lasting assistant
walk over to the flash power up and down