Rovelight vs alienbees ab1600

Sorry if this has already been discussed, but I tried searching but the search yielded no results. I am looking into getting a rovelight and wondering if anyone here has experience with them and alienbees for comparisons. I know the main difference is that the rovelight has a built in battery. But I'm also wondering how do the two compare to each other in build quality and also is the rovelight more color consistent then the alienbees?

Gumby1220 wrote in post #17808520
Sorry if this has already been discussed, but I tried searching but the search yielded no results. I am looking into getting a rovelight and wondering if anyone here has experience with them and alienbees for comparisons. I know the main difference is that the rovelight has a built in battery. But I'm also wondering how do the two compare to each other in build quality and also is the rovelight more color consistent then the alienbees?

If you know how to use a calibration target then color cosistency is not a problem anymore.

Rovelight has HSS ...Alienbee doesnt.

" .. Rovelight has HSS ...Alienbee doesnt .. "

Is that strictly correct? The Rovelight has an 'H' setting - that with the correct timing offers Supersync.
AlienBees, at some settings, offer a long burn time too - the Einstein doesn't.
"HSS" means different things to different people - to Canon anyway, it implies 50KHz pulsing as well as the early trigger.

I have the AB1600 for 7 years... it doesn't do HSS or whatever you call it.
You are stuck with 1/200 ...any higher than that ..it's all unusable.

PhilF wrote in post #17809007
I have the AB1600 for 7 years... it doesn't do HSS or whatever you call it.
You are stuck with 1/200 ...any higher than that ..it's all unusable.

Hi, OK, I'm not an AB owner so I'm not asserting too much - but -

PW certainly were claiming that AB 1600 could be set up to do Hypersync. See just before halfway down here:

http://wiki.pocketwiza​rd.com …php?title=Hyper​Sync_Setup

.. how effective it was, I don't know.

Read http://paulcbuff.com/s​fe-flashduration.php

Thanks guys for the replies. Might just try the rovelight out.