Speedlights vs. Monolights for portraits

[Braineack]

all the way down to their on camera Speedlight flashes.

The $50 manual ones mind you...

 

[adamhiram]

I'm almost at the point where I'd like to ditch all my speedlights for eVOLV200s. Lots of strobe for the price in such a compact package.

FYI eVOLV 200 Pro is $50 off today @ Adorama.
https://www.adorama.com/fplfev200pro.html

 

[adamhiram]

I will likely start a new discussion thread as I get more time to use it, but here are my initial impressions of the XPLOR 400 coming from speedlights. It is big and it is heavy. It has 4x the max power (metered), and the modeling light is very bright. It is fairly intuitive to use coming from other Godox/Flashpoint products, with many of the same quirks.

But here's the thing that really surprised me... Every review talks about recycle time at max power, and 1 second between shots at 400Ws is pretty impressive. But nobody really talks about just how fast it is at lower output. I tried shooting at 10fps to see how many misfires I'd see and THERE WERE NONE. At 1/32 flash power I can literally shoot at 10fps using flash. At 1/16 power I'm still at 9fps. Even at 1/8 power, which is the equivalent of where I typically max out with my speedlights, I can reliably shoot at 4fps. Maybe this is old news to those already using studio strobes, but I am truly blown away.

 

[Designer]

I'm almost at the point where I'd like to ditch all my speedlights for eVOLV200s. Lots of strobe for the price in such a compact package.

FYI eVOLV 200 Pro is $50 off today @ Adorama.
https://www.adorama.com/fplfev200pro.html

Interesting. Thank you.