Einstein Lights from Paul C. Buff Co. (AlienBees)

[Redrum]

For all you Paul Buff lovers.

Found a small photo of the Einstein light on page 92 of the Oct issue of Shutterbug Magazine. It is in a Monolight Buyer's Guide article. Sorry, I can not find a link for it, but it doesn't give the specs nor the price. Looks like it has an antenna protruding from the top for wireless.

[doidinho]

From the FM forums, posted by PCB; see the post here.

"Einstein has two primary modes: Constant color (Constant 5600°k over 8 f stops range) and Action. It never expels the full capacitor charge , rather it shuts the tube off when the desired power is produced. In Action Mode it maintains the fastest possible duration in the process (as fast as 1/10,000 t.1). It (like Bron and other IGBT controlled flash) does this at the cost of rising color temperature as you reduce power. It also achieves very fast durations in Constant Color mode as you reduce power, but not as dramatically as in Action Mode. The mode selection has no effect on recycle time of approximately 500WS/sec."

In addition it will have an eight stop range.


And a little something extra I found on the PCB forum

"I plan to make Elinchrom to PCB adaptor - it's on my project list."

It sounds like a dream machine. My AB's were just received for return and they will be calling me tomorrow to finalize my White Lightning order. I'm tempted to hold out for the Einsteins; the only thing holding me back is I'm afraid of possible design flaws on the initial units, especially with the quality of parts from any new manufacturers. Wish I knew what the estimated price was.

[2112]

Originally Posted by Redrum

For all you Paul Buff lovers.

Found a small photo of the Einstein light on page 92 of the Oct issue of Shutterbug Magazine. It is in a Monolight Buyer's Guide article. Sorry, I can not find a link for it, but it doesn't give the specs nor the price. Looks like it has an antenna protruding from the top for wireless.

They will be 500 w/s and 1000 w/s The antenna is part of the new Cyber Syncs called the Cyber Commander which will be out this fall along with the lights.

As for pricing, Paul said back in March "Einstein will cost only slightly more than WL - we can't pinpoint the price yet."