Look who's coming out with a Portable Lithium Battery Powered Strobe System

PhotoFlex Triton
PhotoFlex Video

FEATURES:
Bare Bulb Application Rated at 300ws
Built-In Optical Slave
Up to 750 FULL POWER Flashes
Supports Dual Flash Outlets
AC/DC Power Compatible
Quick Change Design for Fast Battery Swapping
Very Short Flash Duration - Even at FULL POWER
Modeling Light with 10 Second Auto Shut-Off
Features 19 Power Settting - Accurate 1/3 Stop Increments
Fast Recycle to support up to 7 FPS
Digital Readout for Easy Operation
Weighs less than a pound and a half (22oz.)
...many more

Street Price: $1500.oo

Sorry Mark. You're way behind... lolol

Dave (tetrode) had posted about this a few weeks ago.

That doesn't seem to surprise me, I'm always late on "what's in the NEW".....

The Loft Studios wrote in post #11996020
That doesn't seem to surprise me, I'm always late on "what's in the NEW".....

LOL That's ok Mark. It's hard to keep up around here.

This was the thread posted by Dave.

https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1002739

The Loft Studios wrote in post #11996020
That doesn't seem to surprise me, I'm always late on "what's in the NEW".....

thanks Mark, seems i missed the memo too, looks pretty interesting

FJ LOVE wrote in post #11996154
thanks Mark, seems i missed the memo too, looks pretty interesting

At $1500 and only 300Ws, not that interesting:

http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …H_OCTODOME_KIT_​EXTRA.html

Dave F.

tetrode wrote in post #11996770
At $1500 and only 300Ws, not that interesting:

http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …H_OCTODOME_KIT_​EXTRA.html

Dave F.

move along folks, move along, nothing to see here

tetrode wrote in post #11996770
At $1500 and only 300Ws, not that interesting:

http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …H_OCTODOME_KIT_​EXTRA.html

Dave F.

Agreed.
http://www.calumetphot​o.com …rt_battery_syst​em/cf0506k

I bought two of the Genesis 300Bs. Still have one and its for sale

I find it hard to imagine how Photoflex can expect to sell many of their units given the price disparity.
Sure the Genesis only does a couple hundred pops per battery, but the extra batteries are only $90.
And It has a switch to make it AC compatible. Also, when the switch is to DC the modeling light is taken out of the circuit.

Best deal at the moment is an Einstein and VML.

I do wish PCB would provide a port on the side to just plug the battery into the Einstein without having to go through the inverter.

Dave, have you thought about opening an Einstein to see how hard it would be to make a battery direct connection?

It would almost be worth the $500 cost of an Einstein to see how a direct VML battery connection could be made.

dmward wrote in post #11998681
I bought two of the Genesis 300Bs. Still have one and its for sale

That Bad? I've been making due with a set of JTL mobilight 301's for location stuff. The lights aren't great... but the battery system has a bad reputation and i can clearly see that one of my batteries is better than the other in terms of no of pops per charge... I figured the 300b's would be a trade up... now i've been thinking that just adding the VML to the mobilights might be the way to go. (for me... because i already have the lights)

(The 301's work fine with our work Vagabond II)

dmward wrote in post #11998681
I do wish PCB would provide a port on the side to just plug the battery into the Einstein without having to go through the inverter.

I wonder why they did that. (Backwards compatibility?) Are there any electrical advantages to an inverter type setup as opposed to just a DC battery/turbo battery system? (Faster charge, more efficient?)

The inverter is just adding an extra drain on the battery.
However, given the number of pops that one can get from a fully charged VML with an Einstein at full power it may be that the work to make it DC direct is not worth it. And it does mean they can't be used with anything else.

That is what makes the VML so nice. It will power anything.

A friend borrowed a VML and Einstein for a shoot in New Orleans. On the drive back they used the VML to charge their mobile phones in the car.

Just imagine what it would do to extend the useful life of an iPAD on a long international flight.

Wonder if the USB connection improves things for iPAD use?

I still want to know what power level will deliver 7fps even though at this price I'd go with a Quadra instead.

dmward wrote in post #11998681
..Dave, have you thought about opening an Einstein to see how hard it would be to make a battery direct connection?

It would almost be worth the $500 cost of an Einstein to see how a direct VML battery connection could be made.

Oh the horror! After waiting more than a year to get my Einsteins, David, just the thought of performing exploratory surgery on one makes my blood run cold.

It's a good thought, though. I do have a 400Ws studio strobe here that runs DIRECTLY off ANY 12v source; no inverter of any kind required. It can even be plugged into a car's cigarette lighter. Connect the (+) and (-) leads to a 12v NiMH, SLA, or other technology battery and you're in business. It would be wonderful if the Einsteins had this capability.

Dave F.

tetrode wrote in post #11996770
At $1500 and only 300Ws, not that interesting:

http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …H_OCTODOME_KIT_​EXTRA.html

Dave F.

I agree lol