Exitium wrote:
ButchM wrote:
Yeah it looks like the new AB's and hopefully the Einsteins will have their own version of CS modules. I like the idea of a plugin module vs. sync cords.
Those AB Max units sure do look interesting and a great price ratio vs. specs.
Hopefully the new plugin module will be backward compatible with the current CSR triggers.
I'm exhausted from all of this.
To answer some questions:
CST and the CSR variations were designed from the start o be forward compatible with the ABMAX and it's plug in transceiver, not the reverse. This is the new PCB remote standard - replacing the 1986 analog standard.
The hard part was making 20 years of PCB lights think forward - thus the CSR+ and CSRB+. They trick vintage PCB lights into thinking this stuff was all coming 20 years ago. The easy way would have been to say the heck with the old and force customers into the new stuff. Instead, I chose to let the older products stand proudly beside the new products and all work together, Believe me, this was no easy task. Notice from the comparison chart that none of the lights there - even the $1500 ones, have the control capability of your 1896 WL Ultra + CSR+ and Cyber Commander.
Now, for we shall now refer to as AB Classic. My intention was for ABMAX to be the second generation AB Classic - to replace it. But cost realities set in. So AB Classic will remain very much alive until such point that I can get some of the ABMAX technology down to the $224.95 price range. The wheels are already turning, but, geez, I only have one brain and 16 hours in each day.
One big point for the ABMAX vs AB1600: To "go modern" an AB1600 costs $359.95 + $89.95 for CSR+ = $449.90. ABMAX 640 is $429.95 + a $29,95 Transceiver = $459.90 - only a $10 difference. An ABMAX 160 was planned and developed but the selling price would only be $10 less than ABMAX 320. The ABMAX price is cheap for you, but expensive for me - the profit margin is as low as we can make it. It should be $100 more but I'd rather sell lights than have a high profit margin. It's all in the Laffer Curve. One point: ABMAX goes to half the power of AB400, and is dead accurate and repeatable even at 2.5WS.
As for colors - no color changes for classic AB. If we try to offer too many items and variations we degenerate the core of our business and become Walmart.
As to differences between ABMAX and Einstein, the fundamental difference is that Einstein's flash duration gets faster immediately as you drop power (i.e faster at at --.5f than at Full) and is faster at any power setting than ABMAX). So ABMAX is a step approximation. But a glance at the comparison chart, at least in my mind, makes any of the megabuck competitors look pretty lame in comparison to ABMAX, let alone Einstein.
