JohnMarcson
Administrator
Thanks, I will start there, I also have slow motion as an option. I will try to do a mix of both. I should be able to shoot the video tomorrow.Try 60fps setting on your camera. Worked for my dish miser video
Is that the fabled ps with "head mapping" and "random pattern"? One or two people have gushed about how great it is, but I've never seen a video of it or a demonstration in real life.
That would be quite the coincidence if it were not the same person. And with NOVA being based in Colchester, right down the road from Whelen...I believe "Bill Corthell", the founder of Nova Electronics, Inc according to:
https://web.archive.org/web/20000118193720/http://strobe.com/about.htm
is the same "William I Corthell", inventor listed in this Austin/Whelen patent for double-flash:
Interesting, it would appear Nova was started in 1979 by Bill Corthell in East Haddam, CT. That is two years after he patented the designs for Whelen/Austin. I wonder if he was a contactor or if he left Whelen? Nova was like Tomar (all their patents are assigned to the Sikora brothers), an innovator with strobes, whereas Whelen is what most people think of when it comes to strobes. It's interesting that Nova sold to Ecco just a few years before LEDs made strobes all but obsolete. That was a very savvy move IMHO.I believe "Bill Corthell", the founder of Nova Electronics, Inc according to:
https://web.archive.org/web/20000118193720/http://strobe.com/about.htm
is the same "William I Corthell", inventor listed in this Austin/Whelen patent for double-flash:
That's cool!Here is the video, I need to try other speeds.
That's cool!
As soon as you turn it on, you can see the indicator LED in the lower right corner flashing, but the inverter hasn't had time yet to accumulate any charge.
It almost looks has if the glass of the tubes has heated up to the point of glowing just a bit...there's a very brief after-glow that reminds me of what a halogen bulb looks like immediately after you turn it off (slight orange glow).
Thanks for posting!
I will add that to the list of settings I am messing with. Thanks.If you can adjust the settings of your camera phone (pro mode, etc.), you can adjust white balance and ISO and tinker with other settings until you get a nice clip. I would also suggest a color filter, like a deep red or European blue lens to reduce the light output of the strobes so the camera can actually catch the tubes firing.
Interesting, that would make sense. The desire to truly innovate strobes stuck with him it would seem. I don't see William on any other Whelen/Austin patents from then on out, so it is certainly a reasonable story.The story i got was Bil had a falling out with whelen and left to started his own company. A and W direct pushed his products hard
If I remember correctly the rotating patterns threw in a few that had a lot of "dark time" which could be great in some situations, not others. It's like the random/rotating ones needed two modes, response and non-response, the response mode not rotating through the more "sparse" patterns.I have an RPM 90 4 head. It wasn't bad BUT it always rotated the patterns which I didn't want. I wanted it to stay on one. You could also do the put power to 4 heads but only connect two for extra bright overdriven flashes.
Correct. When it came out I was obsessed with the "constant" flash ..which was ONE of the patterns it has...but then it would move on! I'll hook it up and do a demo...if I still have four strobes somewhere...which I think I do...If I remember correctly the rotating patterns threw in a few that had a lot of "dark time" which could be great in some situations, not others. It's like the random/rotating ones needed two modes, response and non-response, the response mode not rotating through the more "sparse" patterns.