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I was waiting for this monolight for a long time, and eventually got it few days ago. Talking about latest Paul C. Buff invention (intervention to hi-speed strobes market? :-), all digital Einstein 640 monolight<\/a>. I’ve ordered few of these units back in spring 2010 “to try”, ordered separately (meaning soon I’ve receive another one:-). That was a longest back-order line I remember, but the good thing that I’ve received Einstein V2<\/strong> unit: it suppose to be improved from the original one I’ve ordered.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The main reason I was so anxious to try the unit is that currently I desperately seeking a solution for my studio high-speed photography, mostly for action-freeze of liquids. We’ve started to get more and more assignments in this area, and I do not feel very comfortable working with my Canon Speedlites<\/a> (have four of them).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So, my ultimate choice was between power packs such as ProFoto 7A<\/a> or Broncolor Grafit<\/a> (probably used) and PCB Einstein V2<\/a>: 640 Ws would be enough for me, the only thing I have to consider is reliability, color consistency and of course the price. At this point I am leaning towards Einsteins, really hope they will work well for me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I am not going to try to go through a full test with my Einstein 640 strobe: there are so many already posted online. The best one I know is Rob’s Galbraith review on the same subject: Stopping action with the Paul C. Buff Einstein 640 monolight. <\/p>\n So, I’ve started from F22\u00a0 and my favorite lens for water splash photography: Canon 180mm F3.5 L macro<\/a>. Long focal distance allows me not to worry about protecting the camera and lens from the water while F22 will give me enough DOF to cover my subject.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As you see, Einstein works great: even one light is enough to get some nice splashes. I really like how the Beauty Dish gets reflected from a stream of water:<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1-46.jpg” alt=”Einstein 640 V2 in-studio flash duration test” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.23″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.7″]<\/p>\n Einstein 640 flash duration speed test studio action photography<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2-46.jpg” alt=”Einstein 640 V2 in-studio flash duration test” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.23″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.7″]<\/p>\n Einstein 640 strobe studio flash duration test: freezing a liquid<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 90% crop from above:<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/3-43.jpg” alt=”Einstein 640 V2 in-studio flash duration test” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.23″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.7″]<\/p>\n Einstein 640 monolight 100 crop liquid splash flash duration test<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/4-35.jpg” alt=”Einstein 640 V2 in-studio flash duration test” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.23″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.7″]<\/p>\n Paul C Buff Einstein V2 monolight speed test liquid splash<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 90% crop from the above:<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/5-29.jpg” alt=”Einstein 640 V2 in-studio flash duration test” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.23″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.7″]<\/p>\n 100 crop einstein flash unit speed test flash duration<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Looks nice, is not it? The last thing I did is a continues shooting mode: Camera was set to F5.6 1\/250, continues shooting mode, strobe had 14Ws of power. My canon 1Ds MKIII could do only 4 frames per second shooting RAW, so this is how the sequence looked:<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/6-6.png” alt=”Einstein 640 V2 in-studio flash duration test” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.23″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.7″]<\/p>\n 4fps Einstein 640 flash sequence shots fast flash duration<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Not as impressive as this <\/a>video, but it was cool to run this test:-)<\/p>\n Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n You can compare this test to a very similar photoshoot I had with Canon Speedlites hot shoe strobes:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Paul C. Buff Einstein 640 in-depth flash duration test: action v.s constant color mode<\/a><\/p>\n \nHope this was informative, Enjoy!<\/p>\n Camera gear:<\/strong><\/p>\n Lighting, light modifiers and accessories:<\/strong><\/p>\n Exposure specification: <\/strong>shutter speed 1\/250 sec, F5.6-22, ISO 100<\/p>\n Alex<\/em> Einstein 640 V2 in-studio flash duration test: Hi-speed strobe was never affordable like this. I was waiting for this monolight for a long time, and eventually got it few days ago. Talking about latest Paul C. 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\nMy goal is to share results of the real, in-studio tests of flash speed duration by shooting a liquid splash: nobody has calculated the speed of water drops firing from a glass, even Rob’s test with spinning disks was not enough for me:-)
\nObviously I knew that Einstein strobes will be fine at freezing splash, but I did not know\u00a0 if flash power of that “stopping action” duration will be enough for my work. The main question was the distance and F-stop number I can use\u00a0 at ISO 100 at that power level (at full power Einstein is usual mid grade strobe, the magic begins when we dial power down).<\/p>\n
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