{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blogposting-js","path":"/blog/383_super_gone","result":{"data":{"mdx":{"body":"function _extends() { _extends = Object.assign || function (target) { for (var i = 1; i < arguments.length; i++) { var source = arguments[i]; for (var key in source) { if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(source, key)) { target[key] = source[key]; } } } return target; }; return _extends.apply(this, arguments); }\n\nfunction _objectWithoutProperties(source, excluded) { if (source == null) return {}; var target = _objectWithoutPropertiesLoose(source, excluded); var key, i; if (Object.getOwnPropertySymbols) { var sourceSymbolKeys = Object.getOwnPropertySymbols(source); for (i = 0; i < sourceSymbolKeys.length; i++) { key = sourceSymbolKeys[i]; if (excluded.indexOf(key) >= 0) continue; if (!Object.prototype.propertyIsEnumerable.call(source, key)) continue; target[key] = source[key]; } } return target; }\n\nfunction _objectWithoutPropertiesLoose(source, excluded) { if (source == null) return {}; var target = {}; var sourceKeys = Object.keys(source); var key, i; for (i = 0; i < sourceKeys.length; i++) { key = sourceKeys[i]; if (excluded.indexOf(key) >= 0) continue; target[key] = source[key]; } return target; }\n\n/* @jsxRuntime classic */\n\n/* @jsx mdx */\nvar _frontmatter = {\n  \"date\": \"2008-07-18T07:51:45.131Z\",\n  \"updated\": \"2008-07-18T07:51:45.131Z\",\n  \"type\": \"BlogPosting\",\n  \"title\": \"Better Lighting Through High Voltage: Sunpak 383 Super is Gone / My new Sunpak 622\",\n  \"entityId\": \"04539af0-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5\",\n  \"revisionId\": \"04539af1-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5\",\n  \"revisionNum\": 1,\n  \"tags\": {\n    \"arts.meta.lights\": [{\n      \"@id\": \"arts.meta.lights.sunpack_383\",\n      \"objClass\": \"ontag\"\n    }, {\n      \"@id\": \"arts.meta.lights.sunpak_622\",\n      \"objClass\": \"ontag\"\n    }],\n    \"arts.meta.serials\": [{\n      \"@id\": \"arts.meta.serials.better_lighting_through_high_voltage\",\n      \"objClass\": \"ontag\"\n    }],\n    \"arts.meta.review_compensation\": [{\n      \"@id\": \"arts.meta.review_compensation.uncompensated\",\n      \"objClass\": \"ontag\"\n    }],\n    \"plain\": [{\n      \"@id\": \"arts.meta.discontinuations\",\n      \"objClass\": \"ontag\"\n    }]\n  },\n  \"sidebar\": \"The PC end of the cable that came with the 622 is much better than the one that came with the 383. I think. I may have to take back some of my comments on PC connectors.\",\n  \"description\": \"I've been pondering lately what I need to get my lighting gear back together.  See, I've been bleeding strobes.  First the one 383 super ended up in the bay, then my MS-1 failed, then my other 383 super failed, which leaves me the Sunpak Digital Flash and my Sunpak 144PC.  The Digital Flash is OK, albeit low in power and the 144PC is what I use to trigger flashes, so that's just not comfortable.\",\n  \"srcImages\": [\"arts.blog.canon_g7_hotshoe_flash.pic-05ae48f1-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5-infile\", \"arts.blog.383_super_gone.g7_and_622-05c99921-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5-infile\"]\n};\nvar layoutProps = {\n  _frontmatter: _frontmatter\n};\nvar MDXLayout = \"wrapper\";\nreturn function MDXContent(_ref) {\n  var components = _ref.components,\n      props = _objectWithoutProperties(_ref, [\"components\"]);\n\n  return mdx(MDXLayout, _extends({}, layoutProps, props, {\n    components: components,\n    mdxType: \"MDXLayout\"\n  }), mdx(props.imgs.Img1, {\n    width: \"320px\",\n    align: \"right\"\n  }), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I\\u2019ve been pondering lately what I need to get my lighting gear back together. See, I\\u2019ve been bleeding strobes. First the one 383 super ended up in the bay, then my MS-1 failed, then my other 383 super failed, which leaves me the Sunpak Digital Flash and my Sunpak 144PC. The Digital Flash is OK, albeit low in power and the 144PC is what I use to trigger flashes, so that\\u2019s just not comfortable.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Before the second 383 Super completely failed, I started getting nervous and ordered a new flash. More about that later.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"David the Strobist guy usually uses his Nikon hotshoe flashes. And he\\u2019s got a whole set of them so that he can be assured every flash will be identical to the others. Most of the pros who use strobist techniques seem to go this route, given that Canon and Nikon have a better grip on the quality banner than Vivitar and Sunpak. Plus, you retain the option of using the sophisticated TTL setup.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Good strobist flashes are popular, but I suspect they are not a great business to be in. There does seem to be a good amount of demand\\u2026 David singlehandedly drove up the used prices for all the old old Nikon flashes with some of his blog entries when everybody realized they could get a lot of bang for the buck out of them in ways they didn\\u2019t before. The problem is that you are catering to a largely price-sensitive market with strobist flashes. The price point seems to be under a hundred bucks. You have to be less expensive than the decent monolights and dedicated flashes.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"So what we\\u2019ve been seeing mostly is older gear that never left the market. Except that eventually some part you need to make the flash will be discontinued or RoHS comes into effect or whatnot and suddenly the flash requires an expensive redesign that the sales won\\u2019t support. And you won\\u2019t even know it for quite a while after they stop making them because they may have plenty in the store room for a while.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I\\u2019m concerned because I really hate paying a bunch of money for dedicated flash functionality I won\\u2019t use most of the time. And I really like being able to grab a bunch of fairly lightweight gear (Iona Lynn had the story about when she offered to carry some of the gear on a distant shoot and ended up carrying somebody\\u2019s heavy lead-acid battery Vagabond pack) and take my pictures, so I need at least some of my lighting hardware to be compact battery-powered strobes.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"The Sunpak 383 Super is gone\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The 383 super, until mine went nasty on me, was a great idea. It\\u2019s available new, manual, and inexpensive. And it\\u2019s got a lovely tilt-swivel mount so you can twist it in all sorts of useful angles for better bouncing.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"But I need to understand what failed. See, the one that failed was my oldest flash and it lived in the camera bag. I\\u2019m trying to figure out if the swivel bracket on the 383 super is just under engineered or if I was just unlucky or if it was damaged when I went into the bay but I didn\\u2019t realize it.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Either way, I\\u2019m mostly doing this for the people who I recommended the 383 super to more than for myself. The Sunpak 383 Super has been discontinued, according to Sunpak, although most sites haven\\u2019t listed it as gone yet, just backordered. It\\u2019s gone from the US Sunpak website and listed as discontinued on the Japanese side.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"Vivitar 285HV\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"This is the name-brand die-hard standard that was on the market for a long long time. The old ones were built like a tank. The new ones\\u2026 not so much. The first batch out was really crappy and most of them died within a few months. The second batch is said to be better.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The advantage over the 383 super is the zoom head. The disadvantage over the 383 super is the lack of a swivel head, just tilt.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I\\u2019m tending to think that I\\u2019ll just get several 285HV\\u2019s used, because I might end up getting at least some built-like-a-tank older versions and also because you can\\u2019t really find 383 supers used. At some point.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"Enter the Sunpak 622 Pro\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I decided to do something really weird. I got a used Sunpak 622 Pro. See, I figure that the flash bracket will come in handy and I could use the extra power (The 383 super has a guide number of 120, whereas the 622, at the same coverage setting, will do 160. 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