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Panasonic GH5 with Godox tt350o flash

Started Oct 12, 2017 | Questions thread
kli
kli Veteran Member • Posts: 4,594
Re: Panasonic GH5 with Godox tt350o flash

cogwheel wrote:

Thanks again ... yes I should wait

I'm a retired photographer used to using film and studio lighting , I have worked with the odd speed-light but not for serious work ...i'm still learning

Most of us who do off-camera flash with speedlights do so because of the Strobist. It's mostly about cost and convenience, and starting out with what you have. A lot of usalready had a speedlight in the bag.  And a speedlight can be used both on and off camera. The portability of working with speedlights is the other advantage to weigh against the much lower power and smaller size of the light.

If you're more used to/comfortable with studio strobes and would prefer those to speedlights for the work you do, they also exist in the Godox X system. And they also have battery-powered barebulb flashes and studio strobes.

You could also look at the bigger-than speedlight options, like the AD200 (bare bulb flash), or the SK II series of monolights (which are pretty much in speedlight price territory).

The SK II, DP II, QS iI, and QT II Godox plug-in strobes all have built-in receivers for the X-system. None of them do TTL, the QT II can do HSS. But all of them can have their power remotely controlled from an X transmitter unit.

The Godox one-system-to-rule-them-all approach is their main attraction. Well, that and the low pricetags. [grin].

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