Flash with more power for HSS
Your new V6II is great with my Oly and Pana bodies, you have the only radio solution with HSS for the MFT system.
The RF60 is a great flash, but all manufacturers have at the end nearly the same power. With HSS and/or softboxes the power is often not enouh. At the moment I have not found a good solution for a flash with more power, HSS but not to big and heavy at reasonable price.
Just thinking: how much power could a Flash get, with 2x the size from the RF60? The energy could come from external battery pack, so stay with the 4 internal AA (less weight then 8 internal AA) .
How much size would a flash need to get a power of 80 or 90 with 50mm coverage?
Reinhard
The RF60 is a great flash, but all manufacturers have at the end nearly the same power. With HSS and/or softboxes the power is often not enouh. At the moment I have not found a good solution for a flash with more power, HSS but not to big and heavy at reasonable price.
Just thinking: how much power could a Flash get, with 2x the size from the RF60? The energy could come from external battery pack, so stay with the 4 internal AA (less weight then 8 internal AA) .
How much size would a flash need to get a power of 80 or 90 with 50mm coverage?
Reinhard
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Using external battery pack helps to shorten the recycling time. It increases the voltage during charging. However, it has nothing to do with the max power of the flash.
I hope that helps.
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Cactus®
Harvest One Limited
So my idea is a RF80 or RF90 as an additional product from you :-)
have you thought about using a multi-bracket to team up two or even three RF60?
The combined GN would be about 80.
Two RF60 would be about twice the size of a RF60, the only disadvantage would be that you'd have to deal with two units rather than one.
I don't think one would get more than about GN 80 (at 105mm) even when using two standard tubes in combination in a single unit (but I could be wrong).
For your purposes, would you want a regular flash with a zoom head, or rather a bare bulb unit in the style of a Godox Wistro AD180?
A zoom head is not necessary, if the flash has the right output. I'm thinking more about a classic flashhead (just bigger) like the old Metz 60, which had GN 60 for 35mm. But with a zoomhead this flash would get 80/90 with longer focal length like 80 or 100 mm.
With the barebulb design of the Witstro you always need an additional lightformer.
That was the reason for starting this thread: what GN is possible with a bigger body, but not getting too big, like a studio head. At the moment there are a lot of flashes like the RF 60 from every manufacturer, but only very few with more power.
http://www.metz-mecatech.de/en/lighting/flash-units/specialist-flash-units/mecablitz-76-mz-5-digital.html?mobile=1+led+antorcha
I think due to the limited size of the flash tube inside the flash head casing, the power hits the ceiling within the accepted form and size. This is an interesting idea but the power to many, from say a GN60 to GN80 would only be a fractional increase when at around the same price (or less) you can have the likes of AD360, over 300Ws of power, which is 4 times of a typical speedlight.
Like you said though, barebulbs appeal to those who will use a lighting modifier. And those who keep minimal gear would prefer a speedlight form factor.
The question is, could GN80 satisfy people's crave for power?
Hmm...
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That is quite a difference to GN80!
We are in a product idea forum, so why not combine both variants into one product? First we need a powerful masterunit, like the witstro, but with built in V6II receiver
Built-in wireless is a given feature as that's our forte
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Maybe, is the answer
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