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Continuous Agitation · Friday · 51 min

LED or Strobes - Which One Sucks the Most?

These week’s topic is very important: If you’re stranded on a desert island, which lighting kit are you bringing along? I’ve spent my life lugging around heavy strobes (studio flashes), and I dream of replacing the whole mess with LEDs so I can see what the light is doing, not to mention not popping flashes in my subject’s face. But for reasons you’ll hear, Bill half convinces me I have to keep both kits. You know what I quit. Gear we name-check: Dynalite (R.I.P.) Speedotron (remarkably, still in production) Lowel Tota-Light (a classic I will never surrender no matter how much I don’t use it) Profoto (B1, B10, A10, Acute, Pro-11) Elinchrom (THREE) Godox Broncolor (Move) Nanlite (PavoTube) Aputure (1200d) Amaran (the CUTEST little sources) Litepanel Astras (hate) Lume Cube Kino Flo Photek Sunbuster But for the desert island, I would suggest one of those expensive balloon canopy things, because then you could float on it to escape. Find us: Yell at us or with us on Substack: https://continuousagitation.substack.com Our big dumb faces on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ContinuousAgitation Write to us: continuousagitation@gmail.com Read Bill's newsletter, Art + Math: artandmath.substack.com Follow Jay: @jayfram / jayfram.com Follow Bill: @sawalich / sawalich.com Rate and review Continuous Agitation on Apple Podcasts — it actually helps.

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These week’s topic is very important: If you’re stranded on a desert island, which lighting kit are you bringing along?


I’ve spent my life lugging around heavy strobes (studio flashes), and I dream of replacing the whole mess with LEDs so I can see what the light is doing, not to mention not popping flashes in my subject’s face. But for reasons you’ll hear, Bill half convinces me I have to keep both kits.


You know what I quit.


Gear we name-check:

Dynalite (R.I.P.)

Speedotron (remarkably, still in production)

Lowel Tota-Light (a classic I will never surrender no matter how much I don’t use it)

Profoto (B1, B10, A10, Acute, Pro-11)

Elinchrom (THREE)

Godox

Broncolor (Move)

Nanlite (PavoTube)

Aputure (1200d)

Amaran (the CUTEST little sources)

Litepanel Astras (hate)

Lume Cube

Kino Flo

Photek Sunbuster


But for the desert island, I would suggest one of those expensive balloon canopy things, because then you could float on it to escape. 


Find us:

Yell at us or with us on Substack: https://continuousagitation.substack.com

Our big dumb faces on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ContinuousAgitation

Write to us: continuousagitation@gmail.com

Read Bill's newsletter, Art + Math: artandmath.substack.com

Follow Jay: @jayfram  /  jayfram.com

Follow Bill: @sawalich  /  sawalich.com


Rate and review Continuous Agitation on Apple Podcasts — it actually helps.

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