Originally posted by Wachkds ... while Godox products are great I wish they would put some more effort to support older hardware,
Well, as I mentioned upthread, you can just swap out the FTR16 receiver you've plugged into the USB-A port on the AD360 for
an XTR16 receiver and you'd be able to sync and power control it with an XPro-P. Not sure about HSS, though, since the AD360II isn't doing HSS, yet. But Godox is not forcing you to purchase an AD360II / AD200. There is a path to use the older bare bulb flash.
Quote: ...and also not change battery type for every new generation of their flashes...
Technically, they haven't done that for every new generation. The V850/V860 share the same pack with the V850II and V860II, and the AD360 shares the same pack with the AD360II.
The AD600 Pro uses something like double the voltage of the AD600 to get a faster recycle time, so the batteries were never going to be compatible across the two models. And given the danger of using the wrong pack on a non-Pro AD600, it's better that the Pro packs don't fit the non-Pro.
But I agree; it would be nice if they'd standardized all the AD600 models and the AD400 to use the same packs; and also if their new round-headed speedlight (V-Pro?) isn't going to be using YA different li-on battery source than the other V speedlights.
Really hoping they don't go with the currently proposed unprotected cells, or we're going to get a lot of melted/up-in-flames speedlights until people suss out there are multiple types of li-on cells and that the "model number" they're given only specifies the physical dimensions of the cells; not its power characteristics. They ain't like AAs.