Adorama Rovelight RL 600, thoughts?

majix wrote in post #17571821
^^very beautiful , she is so cute

Thanks. Trying to take advantage of the fact that she's not 100% crawling yet. Once that starts, planned pcitures become a bit more difficult...lol

e r y k wrote in post #17572130
thats how I have mine setup. as soon as I get my RL600 fixed I will try again and post my results. the batteries in my triggers may be a little old :S
does anyone know how long it takes for adorama to reply to customer support emails?

However long it takes, it is always quicker to email me directly: Helen@adorama.com

e r y k wrote in post #17569642
My second time out with the rovelight and now it's constantly blowing fuses.... Any idea or should I call adorama?

Please email me: Helen@adorama.com and I'll put you in touch with our Flashpoint expert, directly

done

thank you!

Something obvious but verify that you have HSS enabled on all (YN trigger, receiver and RL if i recall correctly). Im using YN-622c-TX on camera and YN-622c connected to RL via 3.5mm PC sync cord.

I am using a YN-622C on camera, and a YN-622c & PC sync cable on the rovelight. I'll check it when I get my unit back. I dont think the triggers themselves have an HSS option, I know HSS was enabled on the rovelight for sure.

As a side note, Helen has been very prompt in getting me sorted out. I'll report back! Thanks

This shot is amazing. So when you shoot in HSS do you try to keep the ISO low at 100? If you raise the ISO then you are only undoing the shutter speed right?

How are you figuring exposure here since at full power just eye balling it?

So do you set ISO, aperture then adjust shutter high speed shutter for the way you want the ambient to look. Then focus on her and snap?

The only time you'd use HSS with high ISO is if you're trying to freeze motion with lots of ambient light. I think, haha.

Set aperture, ISO, shutter speed to expose for ambient, then add the flash to taste. For me that's the easiest way to think of it.

That was my next question actually. I know if its dark you can freeze action without HSS. But if outside you would need HSS to and small aperture to darken the shot to cut the ambient light to to freeze action the best you could. But would you turn up the ISO in this case?

By the time you crank the shutter speed, you lose flash power, so you up the ISO to make up for it. This obviously brings up the ambient too, but there are times when the ambient light shot at 1/250 at wider apertures will still introduce motion blur even at ISO 100.

Picked up an RL-600B. In an initial quick and dirty testing I am rather impressed with flash output and the smoothness of the transition between flash power settings. Tested the RL-600B at 1/1 flash power with the Phottix Odin ODS in non HSS and then again in HSS with and without ODS timing dialed in. Picked up about one stop flash exposure value with ODS timing dialed in while in HSS. Both in HSS and non HSS, 1/1 flash exposures were the same with the ODS dialed in. In non HSS, with ODS dialed in, I got top and bottom banding at 1/3 stop less than 1/1 power and by 1/2 power the banding left just a small slit. In HSS all flash settings picked up about 1 stop flash exposure with the ODS timing adjusted. In my quick and dirty testing I found the RL-600B had about a 2 stop flash output advantage over the CL-360 and INdra 500. More testing is warranted to verify these initial findings but so far I am pleasantly surprised.

Only issue so far is that the battery fuse terminal was installed off to the side of the opening to where the fuse was installed at an awkward angle. Do not even see how the fuse was making contact with the one terminal at the angle that it was installed at. Widened the hole so now the fuse installs properly in the terminal but probably voided my warranty on the battery in the process.