My Review of Flashpoint StreakLight 360 Ws Flash

Originally submitted at Adorama

Flashpoint StreakLig

Flashpoint StreakLight 360 Ws Flash

Best Lighting Purchase Ever!!

These units are GREAT!!. First of all, it is widely known that these lights are private labeled and are exactly the same as units under different brand names. I decided to buy from Adorama for two main reasons:

#1 Confidence: I preferred to buy from a US company, so I could take rely on their customer service and tech support, if necessary and
#2 Price: the Adorama bundle with the transmitter/receiver and optional Umbrella Reflector Kit actually makes it less expensive.

Here are my key Pros/Cons why I gave it 5 stars:
Pros:
-Powerful (360ws is powerfull enough for most situations)
-Portable (At this size and price, I have no fear of using them on location)
-Cost effective (I have Buff Eintsteins, but never invested in additional light modifiers, due to cost and hassle of buying direct from Buff)
-Solid build quality
-Great features for a manual flash. (No TTL, yet, but new units coming soon for Canon/Nikon, and hopefully Sony, next year)
-Transmitter allows to you adjust flash output remotely
-Lots of light modifiers and compatibility with Bowens mount
-Can use both the sync port and Flashpoint receiver, at the same time, which allows you to fire the units and take a meter reading with a Sekonic lightmeter (HUGE!!)

CONS: (They aren’t perfect, but I couldn’t take off any stars for the negatives)
-Color temperature is a bit too cool. They claim 5600k +/- 200*, but I’m getting closer to 6000K, when I do a custom white balance. This is seems to be exacerbated by about 100* when using diffusion discs in the stock reflector. If I could give it 4.5 stars, this would be the only reason
-You can’t trigger the Flashpoint triggers directly with a Sekonic light meter, which is not unusual. My perfect workaround is I plugged in Pocketwizard Plus III’s into the sync port, so my L478DR triggers the units for a meter reading using the Plus IIIs and the Flashpoint transmitter adjusts flash output and triggers the lights from on top of my Sony A7r II and A7 II
-HSS requires using a different trigger and is not yet compatible with Sony (I didn’t have HSS with my Einsteins either, because the Mini and Flexes were the most unreliable triggers I ever owned and sold them years ago)

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