If your complaining about the AB's then step up and put your money where your mouth is and buy a higher quality strobe. The AB's were built as light weight strobe for the LOW budget end of the market yet they deliver consistent value for your dollar. They have been field tested by thousands of photographers who use them everyday for a living. Word of mouth has made them so popular with real photographers and not with so called photographers who are worried about a 1/10 of a stop difference.
Problem with this is you don't have the meter set to read in 1/10 of stops, you have it set to measure in 1/3 stops. In digital photography 3 tenths is the difference between a good image and trash. You could see by your own test that even powered down low they are not consistent.
duly noted. they are not consistent and 1/10th stops would be more revealing. i'll look into it. however, it seems pretty insane to say that three tenths of a stop over or under exposure will make the difference between a good image and trash. there's a lot more to a good image. i guess if your right at that point where your highlights are blowing out, you should probably be stopping down anyways for some headroom. even so, if your shooting raw you still have the data regardless.
@kslagerman unless of course by some "inconsistency" (which the B1600 seemed very consistent) caused the picture to be overexposed by more than one stop, which honestly would be noticeable at the time of shooting. I noticed that at ISO 100 at 1/32 power the F/stop is still f/20. Is 1/32 as low as it can go?
this is a GREAT idea ! but iamkmaniam is right - 3/10ths matters. Can you do it again with 1/10ths PLEEZE!
jomphoto 10 months ago
If your complaining about the AB's then step up and put your money where your mouth is and buy a higher quality strobe. The AB's were built as light weight strobe for the LOW budget end of the market yet they deliver consistent value for your dollar. They have been field tested by thousands of photographers who use them everyday for a living. Word of mouth has made them so popular with real photographers and not with so called photographers who are worried about a 1/10 of a stop difference.
Smooth8000 1 year ago
yep. 1/32 is the lowest power setting for any AB unit. i guess the new Einstein AB strobes can go lower, might want to check me on that info though.
kslagerman 2 years ago
Yeah I don't see what the big deal is one missfire out of alot of shooting is fine with me
jaycephoto 2 years ago
how was it not consistent it only changed once i mean ONCE
jaycephoto 2 years ago
@jaycephoto exactly!
kslagerman 2 years ago
Problem with this is you don't have the meter set to read in 1/10 of stops, you have it set to measure in 1/3 stops. In digital photography 3 tenths is the difference between a good image and trash. You could see by your own test that even powered down low they are not consistent.
iamkmaniam 2 years ago
duly noted. they are not consistent and 1/10th stops would be more revealing. i'll look into it. however, it seems pretty insane to say that three tenths of a stop over or under exposure will make the difference between a good image and trash. there's a lot more to a good image. i guess if your right at that point where your highlights are blowing out, you should probably be stopping down anyways for some headroom. even so, if your shooting raw you still have the data regardless.
kslagerman 2 years ago
@kslagerman unless of course by some "inconsistency" (which the B1600 seemed very consistent) caused the picture to be overexposed by more than one stop, which honestly would be noticeable at the time of shooting. I noticed that at ISO 100 at 1/32 power the F/stop is still f/20. Is 1/32 as low as it can go?
erjohnson227 2 years ago