Today I'd like to show you guys what I think
is a fantastic option for anybody looking to put
a portable lighting solution
on their Panasonic camera bodies.
Let's get Undone.
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What is happenin', everybody? I'm Gerald Undone
and today I've got a little lighting configuration
I want to show you that's sort of like a spiritual successor
to that Godox video that I made a couple months ago.
I was thinking about making a video like this anyway
because I recently picked up the G9 from Panasonic,
and I was actually messing around
with some lighting solutions for it because I haven't really
ever tried to light any Olympus or Panasonic systems
before, always just Sony and Canon and that kind of stuff.
And then just the very next day I got a--
a comment from Ron Coker here who said that he,
who also uses the Sony a7 III, was wondering
if this lighting configuration will also work
on a Panasonic GH5. So, I thought, how great,
let's test that out and make a video about it.
Now, I'm not actually gonna test this on the GH5, Ron,
because I'm using that to film myself right now,
but I'm gonna test it on the G9, which should operate
pretty much exactly the same, any results that we get
here should carry forward. So, what I've got here
is another Godox Solution. I've got the TT350O.
O stands for Olympus, but Olympus and Panasonic
are interchangeable. And if you've never used
any of these before, this can all be applied to Sony,
to Canon, etc. And it's just the letter that changes,
so the S would be for Sony, the C would be for Canon.
But, uh, O is for Olympus and Panasonic
because the hot shoes are the same,
the way that the systems work.
And there's also a follow-up to this speedlight as well,
the V350, and it's essentially exactly the same,
same power and everything. But they got rid of using
AA batteries and instead they provided
a rechargeable lithium-ion battery,
which I think is good for 500 full power shots.
Now, there's quite a bit of a price difference,
so I'll just let you know about that real quick,
in case you're considering which one to get.
This one I think is about $90 US to $120 CAD.
But the V version, and really I think it's just
the lithium-ion battery that's the only real difference,
it's $160 US or, like, $210 CAD. So, it goes up quite a bit,
and for that extra bit of money, you could almost get
two of these or one of these and, like, a whole array
of Eneloops. Like, maybe two to three sets
for that price difference. So, I think, as much as I like the,
you know, rechargeable batteries and that kind of thing,
I don't know that it's worth that much of a price jump.
I think that Godox should probably have priced them
a little bit better to have the rechargeable battery.
But anyway, you got both options, okay?
So, now we're gonna get into why I'm recommending this.
So, here I've got the G9, like I was saying.
And I'm just gonna pop the light on here,
and then I'll get into a little setup
and why I think it's great. So, like most speedlights,
the light comes in a little pouch here.
And you've got one of those feet for setting it up
on its own. It's got a little bit of diffusion on the top
and then you have a control dial on the back here.
On the side is where you would put in
your AA batteries in this case, or in the case of the V one,
where the lithium-ion battery would go.
So, let's grab a couple AA batteries here.
Put it on the camera.
Now, we'll turn the camera on,
and then we will turn on the Thinklight.
So, the TT350 is a great little light. Its compact size,
I think marries well with a mirrorless camera.
It has a guide number of 36, so it can actually output
a decent amount of light for just the two AA batteries.
Its recycle time is great if you use good batteries
like Eneloop. I think on the box it says that it's rated
for anywhere from .1 to 2.2 seconds.
2.2 seconds would probably be, like, lousy, you know,
bulk pack batteries or when your Eneloops are near
the end of their charge cycle. And then .1 seconds
would be top batteries fully charged. And I do find that
its recycle time is quite decent.
If we take a look here at the,
uh, refresh light... let's do-- fire off a few shots.
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So, it recycles quickly, it's bright, it's very light,
it works well with this whole mirrorless package.
And the price is great, too, at like I said,
$110, $120 CAD or $80 to $90 US.
And the other thing that I love about it
is that you can use it as a transmitter,
and that's what my previous Godox video was about,
"Hey, did you realize that these TT350s can,
like, completely control your entire light setup?
And they cost about the same amount as the transmitter,
you don't even have to give up having an extra light."
And sure, an on-camera light isn't always great,
but if you want to just have a run-and-gun system
like this, it's a great solution. But then if you want
to use it as a transmitter because you have
your other lights set up, you could just point it up,
bounce it off the ceiling to give yourself a little bit more,
you know, room brightness if you wanted to,
up your exposure. You can use it in run-and-gun scenarios.
You can use it as a fill on the camera with a key elsewhere.
So, it's great to not have to give up an extra sort
of 36 guide number light just to have a transmitter.
And you'll be able to get three separate lines
of control transmitting, and I'm gonna show you
how to do that now. So, what we're gonna do now
is we're gonna grab the AD200 here and--
this is a great light, by the way. If you aren't familiar
with the Godox line, bang for buck, I don't know
if there's a better portable lighting-- light for this.
I mean, there's even more powerful ones
that are also great value for their money,
but the AD200 is great if you're looking for something
that can output a lot of light in a small form factor.
Multiple mounting options,
it's got a changeable head here. You can go from
this focusing head to a flash bulb. 1/4"-20 threads
all over the place. And you can just set it on things
'cause of its flat design. It's fantastic.
Anyway, let's go ahead and power this guy on here.
Okay. So, right away you can see
that we are in wireless slave mode.
You're always in wireless slave mode.
That's how these things are intended to be used.
And right now it's in group B, which you can change
by pressing this button here, and you can cycle through
the different groups. So, let's put it to group C.
And you can ignore the power there
because we're gonna control that with the TT350
in a moment. And then right here, you can see
that it has high-speed sync enabled.
These lights can all communicate from the TT350
on the camera. They can shoot out the TTL,
they can shoot out the high-speed sync
and communicate with the lights that way.
So, we are all set up here.
That's all you have to do basically.
And, I'm gonna set this over here on this light stand.
Okay, so now that the AD200 is all set up,
we can jump back over to the camera
and to the Thinklight here, and what we're gonna
wanna do is we're gonna wanna hold down
the "Sync" button here until the little wireless symbol
starts flashing. And then if we move this over
until it has an "M" next to it, that's gonna
be wireless master. Now we can press the button
that says "Slave", but below it it says "Group channel".
We can press that until we cycle through
the different groups. As soon as we hit C,
we see our AD200 is set to 1/64 power.
And we can adjust it this way and adjust the power
to whatever we want. And whatever we leave it on,
so, like, 1/16, it'll immediately update the AD200
to be 1/16. We can also change the channel
and have a whole array of these things working.
And there's multiple lines that you can control in here.
And you access those by pressing the slave button again,
so we can see there's "M". "M" is for this light,
which right now is off, but if we press "Mode",
it can be TTL, it can be manual power that we can set.
And that's for the power of the on-camera flash.
We can also go through "Slave" again
and switch that to "A", which we don't have any lights
set up on "A", "B", "C". So, we have three different groups
that we can control from here as a transmitter,
as well as having that light.
Now, normally the transmitters have, like,
four or five different groups, so you do get more lines
that you can control. But having three lines
and a light for around the same amount of money
I think is pretty great. So, now that we have the power
set up on there, we're controlling it.
If we want to turn on high-speed sync, we can just press "Sync",
and now we have high-speed sync between the two.
And like I showed you, you can already have TTL.
Alright, so that's it. We're configured
and we're controlling this, and we could be controlling
multiple lights of this on group C,
we could have different ones at different power, A, B, C.
And you can do all this for an affordable budget
and have, like, a whole portable light situation.
And I think this is a great option for the Panasonic.
What's great about it right now, it's great for the Panasonic,
but if you want to use it for other systems--
maybe you have a Sony, maybe you have a Canon,
maybe you're not sure if you're gonna stay on Panasonic.
You can not only have different TT350s
on your different cameras which can all control the lights
at the same time, which is pretty great--
so, if I had a Canon here at the same time--
I showed all this in my previous video,
so at the end of the video and in the description,
there's gonna be links to that. Go check out
the other video if you want to know all the crazy stuff
you can do with the Godox stuff.
But basically, I could be holding a Canon camera
with the TT350C on it in this hand and a Panasonic
in this hand, and controlling the AD200s with both.
It's a great interchangeable system like that,
which is fantastic, so that you don't have to get stuck
with a whole bunch of lights only for one brand.
If you want to move to-- you want to switch to mirrorless,
you want to change to different brands,
what are you gonna do with all your lights?
You don't have to have that problem with Godox.
So, I love this system. Let's fire off a few shots here.
Hopefully you'll be able to see them with the refresh rate.
But I'll just give you an idea of the recycle time
and how it works. So, I'm gonna kinda squint here.
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So, as you can see, they recycle really, really quickly.
And they work well communicating with one another.
And it's just a great option for the Panasonic, and it can--
you can get started here, like I said, with $80 US
or $110 CAD. You can start with a light here,
and then you can just build up your kit from there.
And you can control other TT350s with it as well,
so if you don't really need a lot of power,
you just want to use AAs and that kind of thing,
you get yourself a couple of these lights,
you could put them on light stands,
you could put them on the feet and just position them
in different places, and you can control the other TT350s
with this one as well, and so you could have
a really inexpensive-- like a couple hundred dollars
and you could have a multi-light portable light situation
like that as well. Because a 36 guide number is--
is pretty decent, like, for the size. It's a great, portable,
tiny little light. Lot of power, lot of options.
It's a great system. So, I hope you found this video helpful
and I hope, Ron, the video was helpful for you in,
you know, making you feel a little bit more comfortable
of, like, "Will this be a good solution for my GH5?"
It should perform pretty much exactly like this,
because the G9 and the GH5 are pretty much
interchangeable when it comes to how the shoe
and the flash synchronization options work.
Anyway, that's gonna be it for me. I hope you found
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Alright... I'm done.
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