snowboarding and skateboarding flash kits

I am looking for something that will do well in cold weather and if possible beable to keep up with my 1d mark ii (about 8 fps) I would really like to shoot sequence shots at night but I'm not even sure if this is possible.

I mainly shoot snowboarding and skateboarding so for the winter season the kit would need to do well in cold weather. I was looking for a sunpak 555 but they are very hard to find. The other kit I was looking at is an elinchrom ranger flash kits.

If anyone has any advice it would really help...

Thanks in advance

ryan148 wrote in post #6107687
I am looking for something that will do well in cold weather and if possible beable to keep up with my 1d mark ii (about 8 fps) I would really like to shoot sequence shots at night but I'm not even sure if this is possible.

I mainly shoot snowboarding and skateboarding so for the winter season the kit would need to do well in cold weather. I was looking for a sunpak 555 but they are very hard to find. The other kit I was looking at is an elinchrom ranger flash kits.

If anyone has any advice it would really help...

Thanks in advance

without an external battery pack or some Eneloops you probably aren't going to get three shots back to back, let alone 8. for the flash guns, I like my Viv 285 HV when I am going to have to ride to the shoot myself since I have far less stress about something happening to them and they are plenty powerful. I trigger them with Elinchrom Skyports.

Hope that helps to start.

The only way you're going to do this is high ISO, 580EX v1 or V2, and a CP-E4 battery pack. Cheaper flashes have little hope of keeping up, and even the Canon flashes will struggle unless you're at high ISO.

Enloops aren't the most powerful batteries, they the ones that self discharge the least. Maha/PowerEx batteries are more powerful. If you have a battery pack it makes little difference.