Can you mix mono lights and speedlights??

[JustJazzie]

I'm thinking of biting the bullet and just putting some lighting gear on a credit card (all you Dave Ramsey followers close your eyes now)

I want mono lights for my "serious" work and I want a speed light to take to the park with the kids and use around the house So I am either getting 2 moonlights or one of each.

Will I be able to use a speed light with GN 110 as a fill light or rim light with a 300ws moonlight? Or will it be too dim?

 

[ShootRaw]

Yes you can mix..

 

[tecboy]

It would be better if you use custom white balance.

 

[JustJazzie]

Thanks!

 

[hirejn]

You can trigger any flash with any flash if the receiving flash has a slave eye, and almost every flash does. You can't trigger using TTL because of the pre-flash, unless the monolight has a pre-flash sensor. A Speedlight can easily be a kicker, background or hair light with a bigger light as the main. It may use a lot of battery and not recycle as fast, but it works.

 

[flightless_beaker]

I've mixed before. The results weren't all that different. As long as the white balance is the same, which they should be since speed lights and monolights are balanced to daylight.

 

[Propsguy]

You can mix but you can't share speedring mounted modifiers. That being said, you can do a lot with one strobe and several modifiers to make it look like several strobes, but for me, I prefer having matched hardware on a set of strobes that allows my swap components around very systematically. My speedlights are for on location work and I never actually use them in conjunctions with my strobes.

 

[KmH]

I used iShoot (eBay) radio triggers that had 2 hot shoes on each radio trigger.
That allowed having 2 hot shoe flash units on each light stand.

Two speedlights at full power deliver 2x the light. Or you can set each speedlight to 1/2 power, get light power equivalent to 1 speedlight at full power, but have a faster re-cycle time because the 2 units are at 1/2 power.
I was mostly after the reduced re-cycle time, but having 2x the light power often also came in handy.