Hey guys my name is Francisco Hernandez and today I wanted to talk about the
Explorer 600 versus the Evolve 200 I get asked that question a lot so I want to
make this video to orient my thoughts and hopefully at the end of seen this
video you can make a better decision on what's going to be the best light for
the type of work that you do if you're not familiar with my work you can check
out my other YouTube videos where I use both of these lights or you can check
out my Instagram my SGH photo where you can see photos that I've taken with each
leg okay so you guys a little bit of time I'm just going to go right ahead
and leave little snippets of the behind the scenes videos that I've done with
each light and show you over delphine photo that I've taken as well and in
this specific shot right here I use the evolve 200 with the 30 inch world pair
Club and the final photo is right here
here's a little tip that I did with the explosions hunter with the Westcott
rapid box XXL that's the 48 inch and this is the resultant folder right here
the very first thing I want to do is talk about the pros and the cons of each
night and then at the end of the video I'm gonna talk about my recommendation
and why I'm making it the very first pro that I have to talk about what this
light is the power that it offers not only did you get 600 watts of power but
with that power and you get a wide power range as well the Explorer 600 can go
from full power to as low as 256 power and if you use TTL you can go a few
stops under that as well the second Pro that I wanted to talk about with the
Explorer is the fact that it offers a couple of accessory options that can
make the light better for the type of work that AME doing the Explorer 600 has
an AC adapter option which I was really happy about when it came out because a
lot of people expressed interest in the light but they couldn't justify having
to rely on batteries when I wanted to shoot for a full day with the AC adapter
you can shoot for hours and hours without having to worry about what the
battery level is the second accessory option that I want to talk about with
the Explorer is the extension hood this is going to be extremely beneficial for
those of you who have assistance holding light because you can take the weight
off of the strobe and put it into a bag so that it can be a lot easier for the
assistant to hold the light instead of having to worry about six times they now
just have to worry about one the extent has option is also going to be
beneficial for the living hoody booming your light because just like with the
assistant you have to worry about one pound now
six pounds and it would be a lot less stress on the boom arm the last
accessory option that I want to talk about with the expert 600 is the 1200
watt extension it although the name implies that you have 1200 watts to work
with I believe it's just a little bit more than a thousand watts but the point
is you're gonna get a lot more power to work with and this is going to be
helpful in case of those times where you really need to overpower the Sun the
only downside sense to say about the 1200 watt extension is that it requires
to export 600 so instead of having two lights you not have one and those two
different strobes need to be in two different banks so that's gonna be good
for a lifetime as extra weight but if your assistants going to be holding that
it might make things a little difficult alright so what you seeing right now is
the modern lapse on the expert 600 but I expose a shot so that I love decently
exposed what the light would look like to the naked eye right now is something
like this although I look a little underexposed right now it's because I'm
using a medium sized aqua box with a modern map and I'm using two diffusion
panels the more diffusion you use the less light comes through so if you use
something like a shooter umbrella with the mine lap and you see a lot more of
the light the last part I have to talk about what the Explorer is that it comes
with this free bag right here and although it's not the most durable
rugged case out there it is free and I've been using this one for about a
year and a half now and it's still going strong just wanted to show you guys
another angle of the bag and also I forgot to mention that the Explorer
usually comes with a free transfer
come to the concepts explore 600 there's not many but they might be deciding
factors on whether or not you go for the explore or you go for the evolved as you
can see on your screen just quite a noticeable difference in size between
the two strokes and because of that is also difference in weight while the
Explorer 600 weighs about six and a half pounds the Evolve 200 weighs two pounds
when it comes to the prices of the two strobes the Explorer 6 colors can be
found on average for about $550 while the Evolve 200 can be found for
about $300 the very first part I wanna fight about with the Evolve 200 is
easily the size of the weight you guys can see for yourself how small and
compact the light is and I'm gonna use my hand as a scale you know you guys can
see that it's not that big at all it's the size of the speed light but it's
three times as powerful as the speed light as I mentioned earlier the
Explorer 6 hunter is about six and a half pounds while the Evolve 200 is just
2 pounds the second problem of a Vulcan learning system is just like the
Explorer system it offers a couple of accessory options
so what I've done right now is laid out the different accessories that come with
the Box 100 and I'm going to go through them one by one
we've also already comes with this for now head which is pretty much like a
speedlights head but if you don't want to use that if you want to use something
that's going to fill out modifiers better you have the option to use this
bolt head right here we've also hundred also comes with this barn door right
here which you can use to kind of creatively direct alike how you want it
to with the Phenom head or if you want it to be a lot more focused and by right
you can use the grid right here with the barn door accessory you can also use
these gels right here which come with the light she can get a little bit more
creative using these little jokes the barn door and jelly use a magnetic
system so it's very easy to test the gel to the light a lot easier than that
another accessory that's optional doesn't come with the evolve itself is a
twin head bracket although I don't have money I'm very excited about this
product because it's essentially making to evolve to hundreds into one powerful
evolved 400 and unlike the 1200 watt extension heads for the Explorer it's a
lot less complicated another thing that I'm excited for with the twin head
bracket is the more possible modern lab that's going to be on it and it's
actually more powerful than Explorer 600 sparring that another pro when it comes
to the Evolve 200 is because it's designed to be like a speed light with a
4 mil head if you speed light accessories like the medmont system with
this bracket right here which is designed for speed lights to be used
with bone mountain modifiers you usually involves 200 with those going to
mount modifiers the last Club bought the involves 200 is the price and right now
you can find it for about $300 or if you want to get the case and the little
accessories that I had laid out on the table earlier that's going to be at $330
where you're seeing right now is the modern lap on the evolve 200 but once
again I just the setting so that I come out correctly exposed for the video but
what you would really see something like this so as you can see I'm quite a bit
underexposed but like I did with the Explorer 600 smiling lab I use a
medium-sized octa box with two DVD panels
unlike the test I did with the exposure hunters mindmap I'm going to take off
the softbox after you evolve to hundreds my lab so
you guys can see how much more light comes through when it's fair all right
so now that I set off the diffusion off of the evolve to hundreds - you guys can
see that the light is a lot brighter but the light quality is a lot different if
you plan to use the evolve to Hunter's mind lab there then I think it's going
to do a good job but if you plan to use diffusion on it then it's going to be a
little bit more difficult to see the light if you're interested in seeing the
effects of diffusion panels on modifiers I have a video on that you can check out
as the name implies the evolve 200 has 200 watts of power and although it's a
pretty good amount of power especially considering the size of the light it's
still not as much as the Explorer 600 600 watts of power another concept a of
also hunted system is the screen on the light when you use the light outside the
screen can appear very dim to make it I I tend to shoot outdoors all the time so
when it first used to evolve I was really surprised by how dim the screen
look like because the Explorer is very easy to read especially in bright
conditions so I had to do that thing where if you're not in the shade you
have to kind of do this sort of thing to kind of read the screen but it's not
that big of a problem because as soon as you sink the light to the transmitter
you won't even need to see the screen at all alright so now that you guys know a
lot about each light I want to give you guys my recommendation and explain why
my recommendations for these lights were not easy ones to make and because of
this I made four different types of photographers and what like I think will
work best for them
if you're a photographer that's gonna be traveling a lot the multi hundred is
perfect for you because it has a lot of power a lot of battery it doesn't
require a lot of space and it's pretty light so it's going to fit perfectly
inside the bag that you traveling with because the law doesn't take a lot of
space at all you can even bring three other lights wherever you're going and
create a three light setup where we go or if you want to bring two of them you
can use that twin head bracket to create one extra powerful light you're going to
be shooting indoors the majority of time the explorer seeker is maybe the strobe
that you want to go with because it has that AC adapter option which allow you
to continually shoot throughout the whole day if you wanted without having
to worry about the battery and it has a modern lab which will allow you to see
with a shattering of foam before you take the shot for on location shooters
this is the part where the recommendation gets a little bit tricky
if power is absolutely necessary for your shooting the Explorer 600 is the
option that I'm going to go with if mobility is something that's more
important to you that's where the Evolve 200 gets my recommendation free on
location shooters I want you to consider how you modify the light and how close
you use it when considering these two light reason being because if you
heavily infuse the light and you move it further away the lights going to have a
hard time reaching the subject and that's where the extra power of the
Explorer is going to be beneficial you'll be sending you the light more
direct and let's diffuse although the vault 100 has less power it's still
going to be more than enough no matter which way I'm using I tend to use the
light up close and diffuse so whenever I use the Evolve 200 it tends to be around
full power whenever I use the Explorer 600 it tends to be around 1/2 or 1/4
power before I end a video I do want to point out some similarities between the
2 lights and that's that both have the r2 system make me use with Nikon Canon
Sony Fuji Olympus or whatever transmitters come out both also have
very fast 4 cycle times with the evolving 2 seconds at full power and the
Explorer being around two and a half seconds at full power alright so that's
pretty much it for this video I hope you guys enjoyed it and hope it helped you
guys make a decision on which light you want to get if it did help please
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back into the production of my channel all right take care guys and I'll see
you in the next one
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