Backscatter strobe and snoot package

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I took mine out for a week on Blackbeard’s. The flash performed admirably and the battery life was stellar. Most, if any issues I had, were related to me. I did wish I had two units so I am contemplating getting an additional one for my trip to Bonaire next month.
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I took mine out for a week on Blackbeard’s. The flash performed admirably and the battery life was stellar. Most, if any issues I had, were related to me. I did wish I had two units so I am contemplating getting an additional one for my trip to Bonaire next month.View attachment 562833
I have 2 but have not used it
Why 2?
 
Anyone have experience with using two of these for wide angle with a compact or APS-C camera? Any image samples?

Definitely considering these due to the snoot option. Other option would be one of these with a snoot + a larger strobe with higher power and beam angle for better fill in wide angle
 
I shot some CFWA with them, but for traditional WA, I don't expect them to be very useful.
Bill
 
Wondering whether to get the mini flash and snoot or the macro/wide 4300 dive light and snoot

olympus tg-6

thoughts?

If you're taking photos, get the flash; if you're taking videos, get the light. Yes, there is a place for constant lights in stills photography, and you can achieve some very neat creative effects with them, but it's a niche place - for the vast majority of shots, strobes beat constant lights by sheer power.
 
Good point and thanks for your insight.
I primarily photograph macro and my current sola 2500 yields 1/150 and iso 100.

So no slow shutter speeds or high iso.

To me, it seems, a dimmable wide and macro dive light is sufficient.

But I'm unsure and hence asking you guys and gals.
 
Snoots eat a lot of light. I use a Retra Pro with Retra LSD, and to maintain ISO 100 and f/22 (Sony A6300 with 90mm G macro lens), I have to crank the strobe up to full power. Even then, sometimes I have to bump the ISO up to 200, or open the aperture a little. In normal macro shooting, I rarely go above quarter power.

To be fair, I've never shot a TG-6, so it may behave differently, but my own experience going from constant lights (a pair of Archon D36Vs) to strobes (first a pair of SeaFrogs ST-100, then a pair of Retra Pros) was like night and day.
 

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