How I spent Valentine's day...
Alas my wife has gone for a business trip to the other end of the globe, Many thanks to YL Camera for arranging to acquire a whole plethora of Godox lights to keep me occupied for the evening.
The AD-400 mid powered lights were of particular interest as they came with their own battery packs (look Ma.... no wires!). These are the easiest wireless strobe light systems that I've ever come across. Without spending any time on the manual which came in the box like a hero we manage to assemble the lights, set the channels and groupings, adjust our relative strobe intensities and we were off!
Our condo courtyard is not the most picturesque environment for portraits and these strobes were powerful enough for us to shoot at ISO 200 @ f8 to completely isolate the awful background into the shadows completely!
Having toyed with little confidence with chinese strobes over 4 years ago I am pleasantly surprised by how far the Chinese have come along. These strobes are really well built, easy to use, feature rich and its modular design suggest that parts are available as replacements (e.g. bulbs, batteries, brackets etc). I would be quite inclined to switch to this system in the event that my European strobes prove to costly too maintain.
Happy Valentines to all! Unlike me I hope you are spending time together physically with your love ones!
Setting up the Godox lights was a breeze!
The Godox P120L Deep P120H Parabolic Deep Softbox
was surprisingly light when fully assembled
The Transmitters come in all flavors... Canon, Nikon, Sony etc
The settings on the triggers is so easy an intuitive to use!
Figure it all our without the manual!
Figure it all our without the manual!
The AD-400 lights come with their our rechargeable batteries packs!
The LCD display very informative and the scroll wheel control much like
Canon's cameras is a no brainer to use!
Everything comes in a neat foam padded
The AD-200. The little brother...
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