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"Thanks for the info Gregg. I am very happy with the B1 and I honestly can't imagine going back to triggers/receivers, cords and battery packs.
I have read the article before when I had my Elinchroms and I was trying to achieve HS with the PW triggers.
They need to update the article btw "HSS/Auto FP requires a speedlight. Studio strobes are not capable of pulsing light"
Note to achieve HSS using PW's, it requires a Pocketwizard TT1 and TT5 with Speedlights, not just regular Pocketwizards. It's the same as Nikon's HSS only it allows you to do it with an off-camera Speedlight.
When using a studio Strobe with the TT1 and TT5 PW system, it would then be Hypersync, it doesn't require pulsing the light. The big advantage of Hypersync is that you can shoot at high shutter speeds using all the power of a strobe to overpower ambient light or just as fill. With a regular strobe like Elinchrom RX's, Ranger, or Quadra, their shortest flash duration is at their highest power. So this is why I recommended Hypersync if you have to shoot at high shutter speeds, short durations to stop action, smaller f/stops for depth of field, and to overpower the ambient. And this is why the action shooters using Strobe as their key light source use Hpersync and Ranger's. It's why PW developed it.
Note the B1 just like the Einstein, achieve their shortest flash duration at their lowest power settings. This is a similar to the circuitry used in Speedlights. But the short duration comes with few stops of lost power. Nothing wrong with that if all you care about is balancing the ambient light and shooting at wide apertures.. At full power, the B1 has a t.1 duration of about 1/300, it could overpower the sun, but it will not be enough to stop action. But if you want to overpower the sun and "stop" action with a studio strobe as the strobe as your key light source, you may need all 500 watts or double that, at say noon or a bright day.
There are ways however, to make strobes like the B1 work by using more efficient reflectors, closer distances etc., so you can take advantage of the shorter duration at lower power settings. If you were a portrait shooter then the B1 is ideal. The Planet Neil article is a good example of this There are advantages to both.
Someone correct me please if the new HSS technology will work at the shorter flash durations of the B1.
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