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Originally Posted by boneprone
Hmm intresting.
But that is an old article. I wonder if they still do that?
Ill ask..
On the floor of the games the lighting is so good you would not need this strobe shit.
My lens is not nearly as good as the guys on the floor. And I shoot at 500 iso.
The article was talking about with this strobe be able to shoot at 800 iso.. Ive never needed to shoot that high. And that without a flash at that.
I dont see those guys needing it. There is so much press or media on the floor now days I dont think they use it anymore. but maybe they do.
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There was a site once upon a time at arenastrobes.com ... but the guy who had it wasn't selling lights, so he dumped it. You can find the archives and the info he had (without pics) in the internet archive. Here is relevant info about how and why...
When you can get the output of your strobes 2 stops over the ambient light or more, then the effective shutter speed you're shooting at becomes the speed at which the strobe can turn itself on and off. If you are using equipment that we recommend, it will be plenty fast! For instance, if I'm shooting at 1/250th @ f/5.6 at UT, the actual flashtubes are turning on and off in 1/2050th of a second.
The speed at which a strobe can turn on and turn off is called "flash duration." This is the single most important specification to check out when trying to figure out what equipment to buy. A "slow" strobe for sports is anything below 1/900th of a second. A fast strobe in my book is anything faster than 1/1500th. The shorter the duration of light (on and off), the more the action will be stopped on your film.
Using our UT example again, when I'm shooting a game here, I'm actually shooting at 1/2050th of a second and since my strobes are more powerful than the ambient light, every little shoelace and bead of sweat flying off a forehead, is dead stopped. I'm 5 stops over ambient at that point so I'm really shooting at 1/2050th of a second @ f/5.6 @ 125 ASA.
http://web.archive.org/web/200510302....com/more.html
and the setup the guy uses to shoot in one of the largest college arenas in the country:
http://web.archive.org/web/200503110...aKits/xxl.html
This guy freelances and has turned down a job with SI.