Studio lighting & Light meters.

Sorry, you're correct, the BX doesn't support the software.

The lights are packed up right now and I've never taken a shot of the set up so sorry.

I originally bought them to shoot fabric samples for a client's e-commerce web site but have since also done a portable musical keyboard on a stand with a portable bench for another client.

The 200ws lights were plenty powerful enough for the set up. The space I was shooting in, a corner of my basement about 12' x 12' x 7'-2" high was very tight. But I got the job done.

I don't know what your subject matter is but you may also need to consider getting something to hold a back drop of some sort, muslin or no-seam. I went with the Manfrotto 314B because it has a telescopic cross bar. More flexible in a tight space. Photek makes a stronger, bigger system, also heavier, for a little less cost but the cross bars are of a fixed length so it was difficult for me to use in the tight space I was dealing with. Two cross bars where too short, three were too long.

Opus H50088

When I was at the photo show a few weeks ago I used a dual opus H250ws lighting system they had and liked the results.

http://www.opusprophoto.com/products/lighting_kits/h_series_kits.html

Since I like to play around I thought this would be a good starter kit to get to play around with indoor portrait. I ordered the kit last week from the store I deal with. The kit also comes with a wireless transmitter and receiver too.

They called yesterday to say its in will go pick it up some time this afternoon.

My wife said where am I going to set that up I said in the living room

I want to experiment with one light and a reflector first.

Looking to buy a sekonic L358 light/flash meter. I see it on the us for $259 may mail order it to the hotel and get it on the us Thanksgiving weekend.

A quick one umbrella shoot

I picked up the kit yesterday and decide to open and give it a quick try tonight. Will play around with it more this weekend and experiment with as a shoot through and using the softbox as a dual light. Sure wish I had a flash meter on hand.

I will be buying sekonic L358 meter shortly.

The instructions is not that clear on how far you should stick the umbrella on to the flash head so Im not sure how close the head should be from the umbrella.


I had to eye the flash output manually and was too lazy to use the desktop and used the macbook pro transfer the pictures.

For some reason I could not get the wireless transmitter to trigger the flash with the wireless receiver. By pressing the test button on the transmitter it would fire but connected to the hot shoe it would not. I ended up using the flash pc cable to the transmitter on the hot shoe to trigger the flash.

Will go get the transmitter exchanged tomorrow. The wireless transmitter and receiver feels cheap. Should have gotten the kits without the transmitter and buy the alien bees that are cheaper and looks better.

I cropped this picture heavy, hope the exposure came out ok. Did no additional exposure adjustment in post processing.

Got only to take a few of my daughter as she busy doing home work. This was with one umbrella.



Opss I jusyed check the file on my calibrated monitor at work and it looks slightly under exposed and white balance seems off. Should have used the my home desktop calibrated monitors.

By the way the kit comes in a nice carrying bag the size of a medium duffle bag.

Much better model or subject now

This afternoon I tested the wireless transmitter and receiver at the store I bought it and it did not work on any canon camera or the nikon D700.

It worked on the D90. The person suggested to try the pocket wizzard($$) an dof course it works. There was also another brand for $300 and that worked. There was another off brand from China that did not work on my camera or the other canon he had on display.

Seems as through the center pin was not making contact with the center pin on the hot shoe?

The person called the owner of the company Nadel(Opus) and arrange that I take the unit over there with my camera.

He already had 2 new kits on the table for me to try. Tried the both units and damm my camera fired the flash??

He then put mine on my 5D II and oh no it fired the flash. That is so weird. Anyway the owner was very nice and said any other problems please feel to come back as he would be interested in any problems.

The wife and kids just went out and I found the perfect model or subject to shoot.

Can shoot this subject as much as I like and there is no complaining. I can position the subject as much as I like with no comments are you done yet.

I realise why the white balance was off in my first post, the camera white balance is set to auto and I forgot to set the white balance to 5500'k in processing.

I adjusted the power output a bit more on the flash to almost 80%. ISO200 and F8 @125th.



@F5.6 focused on right eye of doggie.


Since I shoot raw I adjusted the exposure on my desktop calibrated monitor and the color temp.