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The perfect combination Profoto’s B1 and B2 promise a revolution in the world of portable high power lighting and for photographers, such as Andy Kruczek, they’re proving to be the ultimate pairing PROFOTO B1 &B2
ABOVE Andy Kruczek relies on his Profoto B1 kit day in, day out, including for this location shoot, where a cable free solution was essential.
two stands, chargers and spare batteries. The battery for the B1 is a lightweight, high capacity lithium-ion cell, with no memory effect, and it’s capable of supplying up to 220 full power flashes from a single charge. At full power, the flash recycles in under two seconds, while at lower power settings it can readily keep up with a camera’s motor drive, providing bursts of up to 20 flashes per second. It has an impressively short flash duration too, from 1/1,000sec all the way down to 1/19,000sec, short enough to freeze most movement. Equally adaptable and flexible, the B2 is even more portable than its sibling: in fact it’s approximately the same
particular job or of creating a hybrid outfit specifically to cope with an individual set of challenges. It’s complete flexibility, giving photographers a slick and far more powerful alternative to the speedlight – one that will add a professional touch to any shoot. The B1’s key strength is its ability to deliver full 500 Joule flashes in a compact package, a level of output that makes it up to ten times more powerful than a standard speedlight. As a battery powered head, it suddenly opened up the great outdoors in a big way. With this in mind Profoto produces a well-proportioned backpack designed specifically for the B1, which will take two heads,
In little over a year Profoto has turned the world of portable lighting on its head, delivering two remarkably versatile and high powered systems that perfectly interlink and complement each other. The B1 and the B2 give photographers a choice of using one system for a It’s complete flexibility, giving photographers a slick and farmore powerful alternative to the speedlight
Photography News | Issue 19
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