Godox Comes In Out Of The Hot

Well, this is Western Australia and it is high summer this week, after all. Out is hot and in is cool - and where does the Siamese cat in the fur coat choose to sleep? You guessed it. But the Godox people are smarter than the cat - they realise that bringing the Godox AD600Pro inside will have the benefit of letting us use it as a studio flash in the cool - and we can access the AC mains current as we do it. The Godox AD 600 Pro is supplied with a good big lithium-ion battery to power it in the field. That's the picture below, with the charge lights lit. Not much power in the battery as supplied, but you charge it before use and the lights all go on. Plenty of power, a warning sign for the hot surface, and no wonder. That is a big LED panel in there - along with something I've not seen before; a user-pluggable flash tube. The specs say 360 full power shots - more if you're dialling down - and a 38 W modelling light. Plenty of oomph for portable event work. And unlimited shooting if you add the AC 26 power unit to the back end of the basic flash instead of the battery. I note it also has a cooling fan built in - wish more warm equipment boxes would do that. Not that the cat would pay the slightest bit of attention...