The speedotron 1205cx power pack.

I bought the speedotron 1205cx powerpack and 3 – 102 heads used last thursday  from pro camera rental in S.F. and got to use them yesterday to shoot Kona and Mogo. They worked well. I was really pumped on how the lights plug into the box. They have that “pull-back” slider on the plug like you see on some hose attachments that makes it super easy. Trying to line up some plugs can be so hard, you feel like you’re gonna break the post connectors. This one just pops on and off. Super easy! The reflectors are really nice too that come with the heads and pump out a lot of extra light. I actually had a hard time controlling some of the light because there was so much. Another nice feature was the modeling lights showed how the decrease in power if you cranked down a certain head. Maybe this is normal stuff for a lot of light kits, but on the Dyna lights i’ve used in the pass, these things were not standard.

Here’s a shot of Mogo for the calendar we’re doing. She is so easy to shoot. I am new to Aperture, so my white balance didn’t look perfect on this output, but wanted to post a photo I actually took with the lights. You can see that the photo is actually back lit, which took me a while to figure out how best to control the light that i was using to blow out the background. I actually had to bounce the light off the ceiling because aiming my light at the paper was creating too much light.

First day shooting with the speedotron lights.

So far, i’m super stoked on the light set up. I’ll post some more photos as i edit them.