So a guy with an RB 67 comes into my office ...

spijker said:

[QUOTE="(I have ~10,000ws of flash power. )

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Could you elaborate a bit on that. It does the trick for sure. The night shots are nice.[/QUOTE]
1 watt-second is equivalent to a one-second exposure with one watt of illumination - also called one joule. So 10,000 watt-seconds is equivalent to 1 watt of illumination for 10,000 seconds. Or, more practically, 10,000 watts for 1 second. Since electronic flash (strobe) illumination is usually all over in less than 1/500 second, the illumination is equivalent to 10,000 x 500, or five million watts for 1/500 second. The power is absorbed into a bank of capacitors, typically taking a few seconds, then released through the flash (strobe) tube on command from the camera shutter.

As an electrical engineer, I'm somewhat familiar with the physics and math behind the electronic flash. I was more curious what kind of flash units and how many Kent is using to get to such an amount of flash energy. Turns out he uses 8 White Lightning X3200 monolights of 1320 Ws each. Impressive.