 Dennis Carr |
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Mark Feldstein |
The kind of lights you score, Dennis, depend on what you intend to use them for. If you're planning to do portraits and studio-type work, then lights that are either stand alone, like monolights, or pack systems that use a pack, heads and cables, are the way that many photographers go. These systems will accept various light modifiers and different sized reflectors to do a variety of lighting tasks. The Rokunar-type lights you are asking about have a threaded Edison-type base that screws into a standard lamp / bulb holder. They draw their current from the lamp itself. When they're charged up as shown by an indicator light inside the unit's head, you can only trigger them by their built-in electric eye using another flash somehow attached to your camera's shutter. So, they operate as a slave flash and their utility is somewhat limited along with the quantity of their light output. These things are useful for fill lighting, especially in architectural photography, say when you're using daylight film to photograph a livingroom or something like that with table lamps. You substitute the lightbulbs in table lamps with these lights and use them for accent lighting at daylight rather than tungsten light temperatures. You can also make them more directional instead of placing them inside a table lamp with a shade, by using them as side or fill lights in portraiture. To do that, you can install them inside a clamp-on socket with a switch, a cord and reflector that you can buy in most hardware stores. Again, you need some other type of electronic flash as a primary source to trigger them. Hope that helps. Take it light. Mark
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