Well, that might be a first to me, I am actually praising a product. And no, I was not gifted the product. In fact, I had a hard time to purchase it in the first place. All the usual places were out of stock. Actually, one provider reimbursed my prepayment. Finally I was able to procure the device, surprisingly at a very decent discount.
That made me think that this product fell out of grace somehow.
So, what are we talking about? It is a flash unit, not a speed light. An old style flash unit that you would traditionally feed flash bulbs to, one at the time.... However, there is a modern interpretation of such a device: http://godox.com/product-a/Lux-Senior.html
When deployed, the circular reflector has a diameter of 11.5cm. In this setting, the flash creates a directed beam of relatively soft light. Not exactly a beauty dish, but not far from it. That's what you see from the interwebs anyway.
However, there is another non-bespoke way of using the flash, namely with the reflector NOT being deployed. Now we are looking at a 180 degrees light source having a tiny portion of a top reflector towards the subject. Depending on the settings of your reflectors, this opens a ton of opportunities. Not to mention slaves in this scenario.
Using this unit as a slave opens more options that I am willing to describe.
I hope that Godox will continue this product! This may be the most flexible one ever, in combinations with remote triggers and light modifiers.
Godox, if you read, continue this path (and send me products for testing).
