Hi, guys. It's Rob here from Hypop @ hypop.com.au.
Today, we're excited to take a closer look at the new Godox Witstro AD600B.
This is the bigger brother of the 8360
which is a really popular bare-bulb flash by Godox.
This one here is a monobloc unit, it's a portable outdoor studio strobes
so it's battery-operated and it's portable,
you can use it outdoors
as well as using indoors in studio environments.
This one in particular is the B model so it's the Bowens model.
Let's take a closer look as I unbox it,
what's included and take a closer look at some of the features.
On the top of the box here, we have what's included.
It's the flash itself.
The flash tube, the battery pack,
the battery charger, power cord
and there’s a Bowen’s cover and as well as the instruction manual.
Let's just go through that really quickly.
First thing we have, the instruction manual
and there's a few marketing collateral here from Godox key products.
We just remove these Styrofoam piece.
And, fist thing we can see is the unit itself.
This is the AD600B unit.
As you can see here, it's got the Bowens cap protector.
Just protecting the flash tube area there of the strobe itself.
We've got the battery.
The batteries is an 8700 mAh battery.
Godox advertise it to be about 500 full power pops
with a 600-watt strobe so that's a really good-sized battery
and a lot of use out of the actual strobe itself
you can get out of with these battery.
We’ve got the flash tube here. The flash tube is really unique.
It's really similar to the bare-bulb Witstro 360.
As you can see here, it's got 3 prongs.
It's actually a bulb-sized tube.
Other tubes are just circular whereas this one here is in a glass bogey.
So, that's the bulb there itself, that 600-watts.
We’ve got the power cable and the charging adapter.
The charging adapter and power cable, obviously go together
and plug into the strobe so you can charge a strobe.
So, that's all that's included with the flash itself.
Some of the features of the strobe here is that
it has a 2.4 gigahertz wireless system
which means you can operate within 100 meters of the strobe itself.
It also is compatible with Canon’s ETTL II flash system
and the new conversion is also with Nikon trigger.
This one here is X1C trigger, that’s for Canon.
There’s an X1N trigger.
So, that’s compatible with ITTL Nikon.
It also is compatible with Sony.
And, there’s an all-in-one lithium battery pack
which is that one there.
The modeling lamp which I’ll show you soon
which is in an LED, it's 10-watts.
There's also the LCD panel on the side of the actual flash here,
you can see.
That's a really handy feature to see all the output of your actual flash
and control of the settings.
From 600 watts, obviously, it's got a guide number of 87,
as I mentioned, 500 full power pops, at full battery capacity
and the recycle time’s anywhere from 0.01 which is at 1/256
all the way up to about 2.5 seconds per cycle time
which is 1/1, that’s at full power.
Next to me here, we have the X1C trigger.
So, this X1C trigger is for Cannon, as I mentioned,
this is the HSS TTL trigger that you'll need to use with the 8600B.
The 8600B is actually really great, it's compatible with legacy flash triggers
which is the FT-16 trigger by Godox.
So, the X1C is the new trigger set that's HSS and TTL.
It says here, TTL control, 32 channels, 2.4GHz wireless
which allows you to work within 100-meters range
and a high-speed sync of 1/8000 seconds
and it’s got an LCD screen as well so you can control the inputs.
So, what's inside this box here.
We’ve got the instruction manual, you got the warranty card.
I’ve got a couple of cables here.
These are 2.5mm to 2.5mm male cables.
We've got the 2.5mm to Canon shutter release cable.
So, this is for Cannon shutter release.
These triggers act as studio triggers, flash triggers and also a shutter release.
And you've got the 2.5mm to 3.5mm, as well as 3.5mm to 6.35mm adapter.
That's if your flash is using a different headphone output jack.
We’ve got two parts to the trigger receiver set here.
This one here, the larger one is actually the trigger.
It's got a little IR sending port here.
You've got the trigger and you've also got the receiver.
So, it's got a T and an R on the actual units themselves
so you can distinguish between both of them.
They're really easy to use
and we've already got a couple of double A batteries installed here.
So, they accept double A batteries.
This one here is a Canon version.
You can determine that with the hot shoe mount there.
And, they're really straightforward to use.
So, we’ve use these—
as you can see, you can use them as speedlite triggers,
studio strobe triggers with AD600B or other studio strobes
and also shutter release as well so they're really handy for that.
So, as you can see, the unit comes
with just the cap and the battery attached.
So, the battery is really easy to get on.
All you need to do is there’s a little slide in port there,
you slide that in from the top.
They actually need to match.
There's a few holes here that align with the locking rivets there.
So, you just lock that in and slide in and that's it.
You actually have a battery indicator on the top of the battery.
If you press the button there, it should light up.
It shows that it's got three bars of battery there.
It's not fully charged
but it's still got some battery life there.
To unlock, all you need to do is just push to open.
So, you actually slide that and you obviously push the other way,
the opposite way to unlock.
That's a really easy feature.
The AD600B actually comes with what's called the H600 extension cable.
The H600 extension cable is basically—
once you remove this Bowen’s cap piece, just to remove that just twist to unlock.
There's the modeling bulb, that's the 10-watt LED modelling bulb.
With the H600 extension cable,
what you can do is you can actually connect that to the prongs here.
As you can see the inputs there
and actually have a handheld flash as well.
The handheld flash is really great if you want to be portable
and you want to hold that.
So, the extension cable is sold separately.
Whereas, in this case, we just have the bulb.
So, let’s install that quickly.
So, it’s the three prongs,
put the two and then the one down in the middle which is what you—
down the middle bottom which is the one you want
and you just push that in to install
and that's pretty much the flash in it.
Good to go.
It's a really simple flash unit to use.
All you need to do is just hold down the on/off button,
you can see that's turned on there.
Right now, that's on TTL mode
so you can cycle through the different modes.
There's a Manual, there’s Multi and there's TTL.
Typically you’ll be using Multi. TTL is obviously a good function to have.
There is a Manual version that's available which is called AD600BM.
M for manual.
There’s also the Godox Mount version, S-Mount version.
This here is the Bowens version.
Bowens is great if you have all the accessories,
all the lighting modifiers, beauty dishes, strobes,
beauty dishes, soft boxes, barn doors, etc.
But there is a Godox S-Mount version as well
so you obviously pay a little less for the manual version.
And, you've got the HSS functions there.
and you've also got the modeling lamp.
The modeling lamp is three-step increase.
So, you’ve got 1-2-3 in the modelling lamp.
You can see here, obviously, you know why it's really easy to use
and you can operate.
So, on first impressions we find that this unit
it does cover a lot of bases for most photographers.
So, if you're in between sort of being an
off-camera flash or a strobist photographer
and you wanted a bit more power out of your unit,
this is probably the one to look at.
There's a couple of things that we noticed with this particular unit,
one is that when you're actually using the tilt lever here,
to actually loosen the lever so you can mount it onto a light stand,
it actually scrapes across the side of the unit
which is not really that great.
One way to get around that is actually to just lift the lever
which actually gives it enough clearance to get through there.
So, lift lever and that will get through so that's how you loosen that knob there
and you can control the lights then.
Lift the lever.
It’s a little bit annoying
but I think what they were trying to do is to make it as compact as possible
which is why they have the lever on the inset underneath the unit there.
Here you can see, it’s just a standard light mount spigot.
Light stand spigot mount here.
That’s just twist to lock here.
We’ve also got the umbrella mount here too
so if you just want a basic lighting modifier for this particular flash,
you can go with a diffuser umbrella or a reflective umbrella.
Obviously, you have the options of using
other body modifiers with the Bowens there.
Okay, so we have the Godox AD600B set up
with the X1C trigger and receiver plugged in here.
I have the receiver plugged into the unit itself
and this is the transmitter.
The transmitter is really easy to use.
We've got just a couple of double A batteries in here.
Just a couple A batteries.
We'll just switch the unit on there.
So, the unit is just switched on there.
The unit syncs across
as long as the channel and the groups are all matching.
So, we have it on 1A at the moment.
So, channel 1, group A.
What you need to do is you need to set the mode.
So, you probably notice here, as I'm pressing mode on,
the transmitter, it's switching modes on the unit itself.
Right now it’s on TTL, Manual and Multi.
Let’s go back to Multi and just demonstrate this
how we can change the output settings here.
Right now, it's on A.
So, you can see A, B, C.
It's actually not in order.
The one in the middle is the one they need to be focusing on.
So, if it's A, you've got it on group A,
then will be using A.
You hold group down and it will stop blinking
and you can change the output.
So, if I want to say 1/128, I'll set that
and it changes to 1/128 there.
As you can see, it's wirelessly triggered and controlled by the X1C trigger
so it’s really great and you can obviously fire off a test shot
just to make sure that that one's working which it is.
So, that's the transmitter sending the signal to the receiver there.
It's a really handy feature,
it obviously has full TTL and HSS capability
so this is the sort of unit and set up that you need.
A few other things that this particular flash have.
It has an optical sensor here so if you have other flash units,
it will sense that and it would trigger optically as well,
not just with the wireless triggers but obviously it's a lot more stable
and consistent with the X1C triggers or other Godox triggers.
So, what I'm doing here is demonstrating a couple of different lighting modifiers
that you can use with the AD600B.
First is to use a soft diffuser umbrella here.
So, there is am umbrella mount on the side of the unit.
So, to get the umbrella—
I believe this is a really basic lighting modifier that you can use.
Loosen that tightening knob on the side
until the umbrella pole can slide through
which you can now.
And there we have it.
So, that’s the umbrella mount there.
That's a great way to just soften the light.
You do, obviously, have a little bit of light spillage
but if you want to soften a little bit, that will definitely do that
with this particular lighting modifier, the umbrella.
Another one that would obviously be really popular is
the Bowens mount lighting modifier which we have here.
It’s a 60x90 rectangular softbox.
This one here is the Godox Softbox.
It's just the Bowens mount.
All you need to do is just mount that on.
There you go, twist and lock.
You can actually rotate this a little bit.
There you go.
To make it align and straight.
So, that's the 60x90 rectangular softbox.
So, as you can see, this is completely portable set up.
It's wire-free and you can be completely portable,
all you need is the light stand, the unit itself and the lighting modifier
and you've got a completely portable studio set up which is really great.
We'll just do a couple of pops with the 60x90 on the lowest intensity.
So, that will obviously softened the light a little bit.
You might lose a stop or two when you put a lighting modifier on
but that's always really great to— always really great to have
and to be able to shape your life
a little bit better with lighting modifiers.
You can also obviously mount barn doors, beauty dishes,
a range of different snoots, for example.
That's a really great lighting set up, the AD600B.
We’re excited for this new product.
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My name is Rob.
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