LUMI II 400 Clamshell Lighting Kit

The PIXAPRO® LUMI II 400 flash (Godox Gemini GS400 II), is a robust and dependable studio monolight strobe suitable for both the serious, amateur photographer and it’s ideal for entry-level home studio use. It’s also a great starter when moving from speedlite to studio flash, which offering around 6 times power output than a flashgun. Its small and compact with every feature you will need from a studio flash such as power, built-in receiver, slave mode, fast recycling time and flash duration. It’s also part of THE ONE SYSTEM, which you can mix and match any PIXAPRO range flash.

It offers an impressive flash duration of up to 1/2000th of a second, Short flash durations for sharper images and stopping motion. The fast recycling time at just over one second allows you to take more frequent shots and you will hear a Programmable ready beep sound when the flash is ready for next flash.

The PIXAPRO® LUMI II 400 features a bright 150w modelling lamp, and a 400Ws flash tube, that has a 6-stop power range (1/1 – 1/32 power) which can be adjusted in 1/10 of a stop increments.

The LUMI 400 II also features an Auto-Dump feature, meaning that you don’t have to manually discharge your flash then you reduce its output power.

It also features an intelligent slave cell (Pre-flash detector system) cell that can be set to ignore a Pre-Flash, which enables the use of the LUMI alongside speedlights or any other TTL strobe

It has Automatic temperature-controlled ventilation to ensure it is safe and protected when shooting frequently, the cooling fan will kick in to protect the flash when running at high temperatures.

Visual Flash Confirmation option is available to set modelling lamp comes on to confirm the flash has been triggered

The PIXAPRO® LUMI II 400 features a built-in 2.4GHz flash receiver, which allows it to be used in conjunction with the ST-III, ST-IV, ECO 2.4 or Pro AC 2.4GHz flash Triggers. This allows you to control your flash heads remotely such as flash power settings, Modelling lamp on/off, changing groups & channels and Triggering. It’s part of THE ONE SYSTEM, which you can mix and match any PIXAPRO range flash. The universal flash is compatible with popular camera brands from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus, Fuji, Pentax with full control and even high-end cameras from Hasselblad, Leica and PhaseOne with basic control. 

It also has a 3.5mm sync jack allowing it to be triggered by a sync cable, or other radio triggering systems.

The Clamshell lighting set up is commonly used in beauty and headshot photography to produce a soft, glowing light which is flattering to most subjects. This is the go-to lighting set up for many commercial headshot photographers, as well as beauty photographers. 

The traditional one-light Clamshell set-up consists of the main light, being placed centred in front of your subject, raised slightly above eye level. A boom stand is commonly used for this set up as the light can be boomed over your subject so that the stand’s centre-column doesn’t end up in the frame. The reflector is then used to provide subtle fill from underneath your subject’s chin.