Originally posted by Class A Do you expect the AD600PRO to be compatible with the XPro-P out of the box?
The XPro-P description states compatibility with the "AD600 series" and that doesn't explicitly include the AD600PRO.
I would also assume that "600-series" means all the possible AD600 models:
AD600 (Godox mount)
AD600B (Bowens-mount)
AD600M (Godox mount, manual-only)
AD600BM (Bowens mount, manual-only)
AD600 Pro
But, as out-of-the-box? Only the M models are likely to be fully compatible. To get PTTL, the 600 models will require a firmware update. Also, as a small cautionary note, while Canon, Nikon, Fuji, and MFT users didn't seem to have issues, the manual-version of the AD600 actually required a firmware update to fire correctly in sync in M mode with the Sony triggers. Sometimes you may have to wait on a firmware fix when an unexpected bug crops up. They sometimes send stuff out the door a bit buggy and then fix things afterwards with firmware updates.
Quote: N.B., for anyone interested in the Godox equipment, I highly recommend to get the Flashpoint equivalent products from Adorama because then you'll have great service at least for the warranty period. If you buy from Godox directly, you won't have any joy with their customer support. People complain about not getting replies at all, language barriers at play, conversations being dragged out for months and months, etc. ...
+1. In my experience, I've never received a reply to an email I sent to Godox's support address, while emailing the Flashpoint support folks have always gotten me a reply in a timely manner. Maybe not a fix; but definitely a reply.
I still CC Godox support on all my emails to Flashpoint support, because a bug report is still a bug report.
I will say that if you're used to Yongnuo 560 gear giving you remote wakeup, zoom control, and using a single unit as both a flash-transmitter and a shutter-receiver, that this is not the case with Godox X gear. Wakeup does not work (despite what the manuals say). Flashpoint support told me to turn off sleeping on the flash as my sol'n. [eyeroll]. Zoom only works with the TTL speedlights and only if the Zoom is set to "auto" on the flash itself. With the X1T transmitter, you only get a single universal zoom settings for all groups; with the Xpro, you can set zoom by group. And if you may as well hang onto your RF-603II triggers if you need a radio-based shutter remote, because the Godox X triggers do not do the shutter-release with flash trigger-delay thing the Yongnuos do; you need two separate Rx/Tx sets set to different channels.
Quote: ... I'm excited about getting direct access to the Godox lighting solutions but I'll make sure I'll use a distribution channel (e.g., Adorama) which will give me support at least for the warranty period.
B&H has also started to support Godox gear in a manner similar to Adorama's, albeit without the rebranding. And while you might be able to grab stuff earlier off eBay or some Chinese-based Amazon seller, in reality, the time it takes to ship directly from China to the time Adorama's shipping them out the door with Amazon Prime, you may only be a week ahead or so. So, again +1 from me; the support is worth the tradeoff.
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Originally posted by morenjavi I have the referenced flashes, and can get HSS without issue, with the help of the nice Cactus V6 II. What I expect with the Pentax trigger is to have the same features without stacking and something 'extra', like TTL and maybe some HSS automation, that is, to set HSS ON/OFF just from the XProP, without the need to force manually on the flash; maybe on the V850, that are not too old. I'm a bit surprised to read that the V850 can only be used at low speed, because at present I can sync up to 1/8000, even without a Godox trigger. It should be 'funny' If I had to stack the XProP again
Yup, that's counter to expectation. They may have just copied the Fuji text, though. Fuji Godox gear is still having problems getting HSS out of the TT600 and V850II, never mind the XTR16s.
Glad you're loving the AD200. Have you seen
the announcement for the round head with magmod-like modifiers? Man, are they going for poor man's Profoto A1. I'm really curious to see if they eventually come out with a round-head V860II Pro that will actually be the Godox version of a Profoto A1. (Super sweet if it used the same magnetic modifiers as the AD200 head).
Quote: I know the POTN forums, I started to read compulsively when the AD360 was announced, sure you know the thread "A new barebulb flash arrives". This is the thread I was referring to when I was talking about the pics from Jesús Padilla...
Yup, that's the great granddaddy of Godox threads on POTN. Good times! Whew. You don't need me, if you have their collected folk wisdom!