From the course: Advanced Photography: Flash
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What is a studio strobe?
- A studio strobe is simply a large flash unit. What bigger size gets you is more power and more power gives you more range and through these modifiers the ability to create a much larger light source. That creates a different quality of light than what you get from a handheld flash. Studio strobes can typically recycle faster than speed lights, which allows you to shoot successive frames more quickly. With a studio strobe, you have more options in terms of the actual flash mechanism, which is called the flash head, you might get a head with a very short flash duration for freezing fast motion, or you might get a head that enables something called high speed sink, which we talked about earlier. You will also probably find that there are more modifiers available for studio strobes than for handheld flashes. All speed lights have one thing in common, they fire light through a flat panel, the light flies out in a very directional way. Almost all studio strobes have round flash tubes…
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