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el_hoppy wrote:
Today I received the Quadra adapter in time for this evenings shoot

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Do you have to use an Elinchrom brand umbrella with the Quadra?

Is the light too close to the umbrella, BTW? Or, you want to have a hot spot in your this lighting setup.

Jul 21, 2009 at 07:49 PM

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vicina.info wrote:
el_hoppy wrote:
Today I received the Quadra adapter in time for this evenings shoot

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Do you have to use an Elinchrom brand umbrella with the Quadra?

Is the light too close to the umbrella, BTW? Or, you want to have a hot spot in your this lighting setup.

That's not an umbrella...that's the 73" elinchrom indirect octa lightbank

LINKY

and the distance from the light to the back of the lightbank is fixed.

Jul 21, 2009 at 08:15 PM

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p.3 #3 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

Could you perhaps mount a normal 3ft octabox on the quadra? Or would you need the adapter?

They have those little softboxes for the D-lites right, the umm..... help me out someone. They're small and light and the poles aren't long you actually have to fix them together, and the inner diffusion panel is a little cloudy lid like thing that hooks into the umbrella shaft.
Anyway it's so light, I suspect you could use that without the adapter. Am I right?

Adam

Jul 22, 2009 at 04:02 AM

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p.3 #4 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

el_hoppy wrote:
I was planning to use the 190cm indirect octa and thought, why not

This cracks me up.

The amazing thing is that it actually works very well.

I might look at doing Carmen's mod to the mount, but I don't know if I will ever use the DO with the Quadra.

Hoppy,

Would you use one if I came up with a camera bracket for it and the Quadra. How 'bout the 190?

Wish me luck.

Jul 22, 2009 at 05:25 AM

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p.3 #5 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

Is the light too close to the umbrella, BTW? Or, you want to have a hot spot in your this lighting setup.

You couldn't produce a hot spot out of one of these if you tried.

Jul 22, 2009 at 05:28 AM

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p.3 #6 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

Carmen Miranda wrote:
This cracks me up.

The amazing thing is that it actually works very well.

In a way it should not be amazing. I read some where that they designed the Quadra/adapter to put out the same light as their full sized units

It was great when I needed to take the octa off the stand so I could convert it to a boom. It was so light compared with when I tried the same with the RX600 fitted

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Would you use one if I came up with a camera bracket for it and the Quadra. How 'bout the 190?

I'll give anything a try once

Jul 22, 2009 at 06:13 AM

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p.3 #7 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

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The Quadra head looks like its part of that light bank - actually looks good!!

Jul 22, 2009 at 05:12 PM

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p.3 #8 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

Looks tailor-made for it. Uber-small, light, powerful (enough it would seem), wls control,only needs to support it's own weight and the battery pack would make a nice counterweight ;> The ability to use existing Ranger heads is a nice touch. My wish list just got longer.. ;>

Oh, Skyports + 1Ds2 = 1/200 sync vs 1/250th with cord or SB-24 as IR trigger.

Jul 22, 2009 at 08:10 PM

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p.3 #9 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

Quadra's have finally arrived in Texas!

Just picked up my new Quadra today at Ft. Worth Camera. I got the pack and A head. Jeff said he had a two A head kit that would be in tomorrow. Put my order in for the stand adapter. It is really small. Can't wait to get out and shoot some portraits.

Jul 23, 2009 at 10:27 PM

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p.3 #10 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

Hmm... the quadra looked quite interesting after they were announced, and now it seems even more after hearing some testimonials. I'm just worried that the power may not be enough for the work I want to do in the field. Although I will say, the weight of carrying around the rangers are getting to me... esp. when some shoots constantly involve me carrying everything by myself. Spencer, have you used it yet for any wedding related assignments? I'm really looking forward to seeing some of the pics.

Jul 24, 2009 at 03:50 AM

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p.3 #11 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

I guess it would be more appealing to me if the price was lower but then what wouldn't

I would love to replace a couple of monolights with the battery pack system.

Jul 24, 2009 at 03:07 PM

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p.3 #12 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

I would bet that pricing this product was a little tricky for Elinchrom. Most people probably only need the 400 watts and the light weight. If they priced it too low it would severely eat into their top of the line Ranger sales. However, it does have a lot of features like the built in RX so it was never going to be too much lower.

Jul 24, 2009 at 04:09 PM

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p.3 #13 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

Profoto must be feeling the heat as they now include the Acute head (not rebate, as it was in the past) with a pruchase of the 600B:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/633625-REG/Profoto__Acute_B_600R_w_.html

In any case, the Quadra still comes out cheaper with more features and with 2x heads for the price of the Profoto - granted you lose 1/2 stop power on the high end. So I think it was priced right.

Some photos I took with the Quadra this Sunday - this product ROCKS!!:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roanjohn/sets/72157621733313858/

Jul 24, 2009 at 05:27 PM

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p.3 #14 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

Nice work and clever background. Was this taken with one head and did you use a polarizer?

Jul 24, 2009 at 07:23 PM

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p.3 #15 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

Hi Gregg,

No polarizer. Just adjusted contrast/exposure in Aperture.
1 Quadra A head (Not on full power). Portalite softbox....... close enough to the subject where I can underexpose the background by 1-2 stops.

Jul 24, 2009 at 07:42 PM

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p.3 #16 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

Weird, on my screen it looks like the sky was selected and adjusted.

Jul 24, 2009 at 07:46 PM

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p.3 #17 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

Nice shot Roan. The Quadra just keeps looking better and better if > 400 WS isn't a requirement.

Jul 24, 2009 at 08:04 PM

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p.3 #18 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

stuuke - I'm pretty sure I did not make any selections on the sky..... I have to check if I played with the "Highlights" setting on Aperture....

Thanks Conner. There were times that day where I wished I had a stronger pack - but those times were few and far between, and it was a sunny day.

Jul 24, 2009 at 08:20 PM

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p.3 #19 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

Like roan stated, the Quadra is an awesome product! 2 shots from my first outing with it:

Jul 25, 2009 at 03:21 AM

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p.3 #20 · Elinchrom Quadra arrived

Hay everyone.
Nice photos

I am the one who posted that i use two SB800s side by side in another chat on the Quadra.
I did buy a Ranger speed and A head system and have been using it every day now - day 5 today.

I love the ranger but for some sessions i do not need the 1100 watts of power in fact to test this i have used the ranger in the B side at 366 watts and that has worked out very well at sunset.
So i am going to buy a Quadra as well as soon as i can find one to buy.
I will use it for the days i do not need the extra power plus the Ranger is very heavy to carry around walking like we do everyday so the Quadra will be a lot better for that to.

Will use the Ranger for our afternoon sessions and when we have larger groups like today we had 15 people.

Have a ?s

Will everything i have for the ranger fit on the Quadra?? DB and Ranger wide reflector ?

Thanks

Jul 25, 2009 at 04:40 AM

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