#8046
Rich-D-Fish - 11/13/2012 8:13 PM
I personally found that the majority of my stills were macro, and for wide angle I was either too far away for any strobe or chose to use video most of the time. For stills I really like the TTL functionability. And for the most part one is enough, unless you are hard core. I keep one strobe and put my dive light on the other arm as a combo dive and video light. The key for this one is the amount of lumens and how wide the beam projects. I have a 1300 lumen Big Blue light at 100 degree angle, and I often wish it was brighter for during the day, and 100 degrees still isn’t wide enough for my go pro shots. Maybe look in to the Sola lights. I think they have a 1500 lumen one. There are some great video lights out there, but the cost goes up dramatically with the two criteria I mentioned. I recently wend from an Ike DSLR rig with two strobes and a dive light on top of it all. It was just too much. So I downsized to a more manageble Canon S95 with one small strobe and one dive light. For video I’ve mostly just shot natural light and lived with it. I can spot small items with my dive light to show true color if I want. Hope this helps.