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Lencarta 600 Ws Ringflash
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Date of last review
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Fri February 18, 2011
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Average Price
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Average Rating
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100% of reviewers
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£749.00
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9.0
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supersize
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Description:
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The 600 Ws Ringflash head produces at least as much light during its very short flash exposure as 600 watts of continuous lighting would produce during a 1 second exposure.
The Lencarta Ring Flash is simply plugged into the Safari 600 Portable Powerpack (sold separately). It can be used with any SLR, DSLR or medium format camera fitted with a standard tripod bush and can be used with any lens up to 98mm in diameter.
With extremely fast recycling and up to 1150 flashes from a single charge, the new Lencarta Ring Flash more than a matches all other professional ring flashes.
Guide number of 232
The Safari ring flash produces a full power guide number of 232 (equivalent to f/23.2 @ 10' at 100 ISO) which is ideal for portrait, glamour, fashion, and wedding photography. A 5m extension cable and a diffuser are available as accessories.
Controls (on generator unit supplied separately):
1. On/Off
2. Stepless power adjustment over 4 stops
3. Recharge ready beep on/off
4. Test/open flash button
Technical Specifications (on generator unit supplied separately):
1. Mains voltage: 200-250V (adjusts automatically)
2. Operating voltage 24V, from rechargeable 3000 MA battery supplied
3. Maximum light output 600 Ws
4. Flash duration (t.5) 1/1200th
5. Recycling speed: 2 - 3.5 seconds
6. Output consistency: +- 0.1 EV (1/10th stop)
7. Colour temperature consistency: 5200-5500
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Keywords:
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lencarta ring flash
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Author
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Cowasaki
New here
Registered: February 2011
Location: Preston
Posts: 8
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Review Date: Fri February 18, 2011
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: £749.00
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Very powerful ring light; can be used for macro with addition of ND gels
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Cons:
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Expensive for hobby
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Lencarta Safari ring light review
The price your pay
£749.95 - Safari 600 ring flash kit (Generator, ringflash)
£255.26 - Safari 600 ring flash head
Please see the review of the Safari battery powered lighting system as this is linked with the ring light system. Review
The Safari ring light is powerful and is designed for lighting portraits rather than the lower power macro ring lights that can be bought elsewhere and for that purpose. If your only planned use of the ring flash is macro then you might want to look elsewhere with lights such as the Nikon R1C1, which is much more practical for that subject although with the addition of ND gels it does make a good macro ring light (see below). The Lencarta ring light now comes with the diffuser as standard but replacements can be purchased. The diffuser pushes onto the ring light but it is not the most secure fitment and one needs to be careful not to knock it off. The diffuser has a second purpose as well as diffusing the light, as it can hold a gel in place over the light in order to reduce the power. I would have liked to have seen Lencarta supply a couple of ND gels with the ring light especially considering that these gels can be bought for pennies on Ebay but this is certainly not a deal breaker.
The ring light is made from plastic and it comes with two L shaped brackets plus a cross bracket and it is these that attach the light to the camera. The L bracket has unequal lengths by design and allows the bracket to be used with full sized or gripped cameras as well as smaller cameras. It would have been nice for it to have been supplied with some kind of quick release bracket but again this is not a deal breaker and the addition of a Manfrotto quick release bracket makes attaching and detaching the camera from the bracketry far easier. If you are using the camera for taking pictures at weddings and the like then a quick release bracket is certainly a must.
Use of the Safari ring light for macro
My ND gels arrived this morning and after an hour of cutting some up I was able to reduce the power of the ring light somewhat. In order to bring the light from the ring light down to a more manageable level for close up macro work I added 2 four stop gels therefore bringing the power on full from 1 to 1/256th of its power. The power control has a range of 3 stops so in this configuration we have 1/256th to 1/2048th which might sound too low but is required for certain things and we can always remove a gel.
So with the power on 1/8th on the power pack and now having 1/2048th I gave it a try. I then realised that there was too much light spillage through the inner edge of the ring light so off came the diffuser and a 1 cm strip of gaffer tape was inserted along the inner rim stopping this light. Now back to our subject.
As I am now skint I placed my life savings on the bed and took it's photo. This is not supposed to be an example of the best macro photography in the world as it is not even pin sharp but it does demonstrate that the ring light is effective at close range.
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This was a quick first attempt but it does look like you can also do macro with it.
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