The SB Image wrote:
Thank you for the write up.
I am a PW user that is interested in moving to the Buff wireless gear, its going to be much easier for me to do little by little and mixing controllers.
I am a little nervous to give up my Sekonic and this will will allow me to ease back on my PW's (sell some) and go with the Buff triggers and receivers without having to dump my my meter or own 2 complete systems at once.
The PW on the right is old school, but still has life in the new CyberSync lighting reality. Don't worry for a second that your PW's will become junk as you migrate to the CyberSync system. Even down the road, I'll keep a few on hand just for the ability to remote trip my camera shutter, while the rest still demand a good price on the used market, so there isn't a down side to moving away from the PW system over time.
The Sekonic meter on the left is pure magic, and I simply wouldn't give it up, no matter how infrequently I might end up using it. It's metering functions and accuracy pretty much define the standard for the ultimate light meter, but for set piece flash photography, I almost always rely on it in incident mode, and the fact is that the Cyber Commander tracks the Sekonic in incident flash metering almost perfectly, and since the CC also happens to control every function of my PCB flash units, the Sekonic won't get to play in the studio much anymore.
That palm sized gem with the sweet LCD in the middle of the shot IS the future of studio flash photography as I see it. It delivers most all of my flash photography metering needs that I used to rely on the Sekonic for. It can do most everything that the PW can do, and it's silicon brain empowers it to perform countless other functions that the other two devices could never hope to master. Between the three devices in the pic, the game changing smallest unit of the group is not only cheaper than either of the other two, but is by far the most important tool for studio lighting.
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