Originally posted by Edgar_in_Indy if somebody wants to shoot at f10 and base ISO, as I frequently do with my strobes, and still get tack-sharp images every time, you're gonna need some very bright lights.
I agree, for a studio photographer it is hard to surpass the efficiency and versatility of xenon arc flash bulbs. There are some situations where using continuous lights simply isn't an option - and there is the small matter of meeting the energy requirements - the higher the power setting you have the lights on: the more power they chew through.
My biggest issue with LEDs is the current issues with colour rendering at all power settings, lack of creative lightshaping tools designed for them and the low level of peak light output compared to the 1200ws Elinchrom flash heads I work with.
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A brief addendum: I have been using the strobe mode of my Godox flash units with pixel shift on the K-1. The Godox flash units allow you to set the number of flashes fired, the power level and the duration over which the strobe will fire. There are some limits on the level of power and how many flash pulses you can fit into 4 seconds but the recycle times of the Godox flash units are very fast so this is looking like a usable workaround.