GLKTN Loc: TN

I bought two used Paul C. Buff White Lightning strobes. One an Ultra 1200 and one an Ultra Zap 800. I just purchased a Phottix Oden transmitter/receiver twin pack. I am totally new to strobes and remote triggers. I saw a fellow on youtube do high speed sync with a Paul C. Buff Ultra 1200 so thought I would try it. As you can see in the photos, both strobes one picture 1/4000, f8, iso 1250 and 1/4000, f4, iso 250. The shadows to the right taken with the UltraZap 800. The shadows to the left take with the Ultra 1200. No rear curtain shadows in any of the photos. Interesting. The strobes are obsolete and totally manual. The oden/camera said the flash was a Nikon sb900 in the meta data. I don't know why. I don't own an sb anything. I have a Phottix milos plus that I was not using. Now to play and learn how to use these strobes and triggers. Can metadata be viewed in photos on UHH posts? Any information on why this is possible with these strobes is welcome.

Vietnam Vet

The lights Paul Buff makes for high speed sync are the Einstein. I suppose if you have the power setting at the lowest possible output thy may recharge fast enough.

GLKTN Loc: TN

My next question, will HHS be harmful to these strobes?

GLKTN Loc: TN

I mean HSS.

Haydon

Einsteins do not accommodate HSS. They will fire at full power only (from what I've read) using HyperSync which isn't a true HSS. Instead of pulsed lightwhich is HSS, it's one flat shot.They require Pocket Wizards to use that feature. There's several articles detailing this on YouTube and articles on the net. The most common method to acquire a deeper depth of field is to use ND filters. Three and six stop ND filters are very common. There's an interesting article about ND's over at strobist.com and the importance of using an expensive filter to avoid an undesirable softness in the image.

Here's the link:

https://strobist.blogspot.com/2010/06/using-nd-filters-to-kill-depth-of-field.html

CO

TTL triggers mimic a speedlight. I've noticed the same thing when I've had my PocketWizard Mini-TT1 (Nikon version) on my camera. I looked at the metadata later and it showed that a Nikon SB-900 was used. The TTL triggers have four contact pins at the hot shoe and read all of the communications that occur between the camera and speedlight.

In this photo I have my Nikon SB-700 on a PocketWizard Flex-TT5 which is mounted on the light stand. I have my PocketWizard Mini-TT1 on my camera's hot shoe. The metadata showed that a Nikon SB-900 was used.

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Jerry G Loc: Waterford, Michigan and Florida

When using HSS the strobe is fired before the shutter opens, the flash duration of the strobes is longer than your shutter is open, there will be no curtain shadow because the senser is evenly exposed for the duration of the exposure. You can use HSS with any strobe that has a long enough flash duration, you just have to figure the shutter speed and f-stop, back in the days of flash bulbs we had special bulbs of long duration for focal plane shutters.