RobertMartinu

Think of the different reflectors you can use. With a narrow beam/30deg 1000Ws get me to f/22 from 12m+ away, should be enough for most jobs. Compare that to a speedlight! ;)

The grey card or a matrix meter gives you a technically correct exposure. That may or may not be what your artistic vision asks for. Even more so with artificial light, spot metering allows you to...

Something to be aware of: those high wattage CFLs tend to have lower lm/w. According to the the spec sheet of one of them you get less light then from some 3200k tungsten bulbs I can fit in my...

The skyport can't adjust the flashgun; but the Odins can trigger middle contact flashes, that should work with the elinchrome transmitter as well. Or you could use a phottix strato as a...

According to the exifs both pictures are 1/160 f/7.1 ISO 400 - either thats the one rare instance where both brands metering systems choose exactly the same parameters, or the cameras where set to...

You lose those stops because you're blasting the light into the shutter blades. Below sync speed they don't obscure the sensor, so you face only electrical losses(those are negligable, below the...

That part is easy to overcome - one can recreate something akin from cheap shoplights fitted with 9xx-tubes. Fix 8 or 12 or them to a hash from 2x4s for the mentioned effect, or simply gang them up...

Maybe a "hidden extra": at airport security I had much less trouble with PWs then acquaintances carrying equipment with looser tolerances. I.E. they triggered a "device is to far off specs, might...

In a way thats quite situation dependent. Using both side by side for the D800 outresolves its counterpart by about half of a stop. Strange metric? Sure, but I use both outdoors & at max sync speed...

Only ETTL, M and ExtA, and thats with 2012+ cameras.The settings for ExtM wouldn't fit the menu I guess.

Exactly - thats why doing a job a computer or monkey can do won't get one more then those charge. Telling them what to do OTOH is the part that pays well.

Perhaps thats the core of the issue; management should be one the same level as the craft, not a challenge but second nature enough not to consciously think about it anymore. Sure, random sickness,...

Which eventually raises a question: Between that and all the annoyances that came up - whats the motivation behind doing /that/ job?

You should consider the overall price! With the Dedolights I save about 80% (more with staff on the careless side) in bulbs, and running everything off the normal grid isn't bad either. Tie-ins or...

The one is a DLH650, the other a DLH4(or a subvariant) with a 150W/24V bulb in it

The radio triggers get rid of the control morse code. In TTL you need the metering preflashes(but the sequence is shorter, giving your subjects less time to blink), while setting the power levels...

It gets easier once you realize that most Dedolights do the same thing (unless they are softboxes), its just the output and the power supply that differs. You can use anything that has "aspherics²"...

Looking at the kinds of light shaping tools available thats an underdefined question.It also fails to take the light shaping out of the equation and reduce it to the light source itself.A more...

Yes, flash sync speed - its about as simple as "16 is less then 24".

At the same speed the shutter leafes require less time to move 16mm then it would take to cover 24mm. Sure, you can compensate via increased speed and acceleration as Nikon did for the D800, but...