{"id":1033,"date":"2009-04-20T14:20:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T20:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2009-04-20T14:20:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T20:20:50","slug":"studio-strobes-vs-speedlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/studio-strobes-vs-speedlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Strobes vs Speedlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Kelby has a post up where he compares studio strobes and speedlights<\/a>. This is somthing that I have had going on in my head for quite some time now.<\/p>\n

I took a studio lighting class, and the instructor was pretty anti speedlight. Maybe he just hasn’t use them much. I sure wouldn’t want to tell Joe McNally and David Hobby that small off camera flashes don’t put out good light. So, I decided that I would start small. Leave the studio strobes for some later time. Let me be able to say that I can do everything that is possible with one light.<\/p>\n

So what did I buy? Well, I had an SB800 before the price lept off the insanity board. I figure you need a hotshoe flash no matter what, so it wouldn’t be a wasted light purchase. I now use it all the time. So what other gear\u00ac\u2020I purchased was a strobist kit from mpex (without the flash). See this post<\/a> from a couple of days ago. I still intend to post more about the kit, but\u00ac\u2020I took these pics<\/a> recently with that kit and that mini softbox from the friday post<\/p>\n

I have to say that you can get quite different pricing than Scott got. Not on the same equipment, but how “pro” do you want to go? Mpex has one light\u00ac\u2020strobist kits<\/a> for $219 that includes a flash! Yes, I know that it isn’t as powerful or feature rich as the SB-900, but hey, the price of entry is pretty cheap.<\/p>\n

Then there are the alien bee’s studio strobes. The AB800<\/a> is $279. That is quite a bit cheaper than the Elinchrom BXRI 500s. ($625 at B&H, but out of stock) So are the AB800’s second fiddle? I haven’t seen enough lights to know. I do know that there are several people that have appeared on Scott’s guest blog that use Alien Bee’s lights, including Zack Arias<\/a> and Dustin Snipes<\/a>. I also used the ABR Ring Flash<\/a>\u00ac\u2020at my class which I loved. So… when I get around to it, I am leaning to the bees.<\/p>\n

But for now, I have a lot of learning to do. I have the Nikon CLS video<\/a>\u00ac\u2020waiting to be watched, and I have wanted to order the Strobist Workshop DVD’s<\/a>\u00ac\u2020if not attend a workshop myself. I think it would also be cool to attend a One Light Workshop<\/a> with Zack Arias. \u00ac\u2020I have read Joe McNally’s The Moment it Clicks<\/a>, and right now I am reading The Hot Shoe Diaries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s a lot of material to master. I figure I might add another speedlight, or LumoPro LP120\u00ac\u2020from mpex or two in a little while, but maybe I will wait until I can pull of this group shot<\/a> with a single SB26 manual flash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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