[pure-silver] Re: Where is everyone?

On Tuesday 27 December 2005 20:51, Jim Brick wrote:

>
> I have 500WS and 1000WS Dynalite power packs and five heads. I also
> have Softboxes from a v-e-r-y large Chimera (54"x72") to a very tiny
> Photoflex (24"x32"). All softboxes have two layers of white material
> for the light to pass through before reaching the subject. This
> eliminates hot spots, but ups the power requirement.
>
> Unless I have the softboxes sitting right on top of the photo
> subject, I need all of the power that I have. I can get 500WS into
> two large softboxes and 250WS into a third, or a third and forth.
> This is still a strain at ASA 100 (Provia) if the subject is large
> and the softboxes are a reasonable distance away from the subject. If
> I use ASA 400 print film, things are much easier. I have a Chimera
> double head speed ring for the my giant Chimera and I typically put
> 1000WS into it. That's only almost one stop over one head. A lot of
> light gets lost in the internals of a softbox.
>
> I cannot definitively answer your question, but if you are going to
> use softboxes, go for LOTS OF POWER!!!
>

        I picked up a few Amovona softboxes off Ebay. Needed a cheap box to 
leave 
money for the light-) The biggest one is what they call a 5' Octo light bank. 
It's not really 5' but it's close. The other one is I think just under 3'x4'. 
Something like that.  Both have two diffusers. OTOH I still not sure what I'm 
going to do about connecting them to what ever lights I get. 

> Even though it is not my camera, a Nikon D100 is frequently used with
> my studio strobe set-up without problems. Just plug it in and fire away.


        I was thinking of getting a small digital in place of using polaroids. 
I've 
put that on the back burner for now. I'll put the money that would have gone 
towards a digital P&S to a better monolight. 

        Thanks
        Nick
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