Godox Wistro AD200
The Godox Wistro AD200 continues to successfully reshape the playing field and redefines the world of lightning with a new model. Almost the size of a traditional handheld flashlight, the Godox AD200 is an unimaginable little giant in terms of battery life and light output. There is simply no comparable product from competitors. For the price, the AD200 is a very competitive acquaintance. It comes with everything you need to enter the world of external flash use. You just add a tripod and transmitter and fire away.
Speedlight and barebulb heads
The Godox AD200 flash's so-called handheld flash head produces a traditional handheld flash-like effect, which can be easily modified with a softbox, beauty dish, or umbrella. The bare bulb head has an easily replaceable bulb and produces a beautifully bright, almost shadowless 360-degree spread of light. The head has optional reflectors that focus the beam angle to give you directional control. The AD200 flash has amazing specs, 200 Ws of power adjustable in 8 steps, from 1/128 power to full 1/1 power. The hooks fill in up to 0.01 seconds and at maximum power in 2.1 seconds. Flash duration is 1/11300 second at best. The flash is powered by a replaceable rechargeable lithium battery which gives up to 500 full power flashes, and thousands of flashes at lower powers.
You should also check out other Godox products, if you need more or less power, weight or other features. The Godox family is likely to have a solution for all your lightning needs.
The Ad200 flash has 3 flash modes: manual, TTL and Multi (strobe). Manual mode gives out the power according to the user's settings, plus you can select the use of modeling light, first and second curtain options and so on. In Multi mode, you can adjust the flash frequency up to 90 Herz. TTL mode again uses the flash's built-in X1 receiver capabilities. The optional X1 transmitter is available for Sony, Nikon, Canon, Panasonic and Fuji cameras. It also detects the presence of an optional LED head, if available. The 32-channel wireless system controls flash mode, curtain sync, high-speed sync down to 1/8000th of a second, power level, modeling light and beep control directly from the transmitter.
Firmware updates are available From the Godox website.
Technical specifications
- Power - 200Ws (roughly 3 times more powerful than the most powerful Speedlite flashes)
- Bare Bulb Head - GN 60m, ISO 100 (with AD360 reflector)
- Speedlite Head - GN 52m ISO 100
- Flash modes - TTL / Manual / Multi
- HSS up to 1/8000th
- FEC / FEB - 1/3 steps (±3 gaps)
- FEL (Flash Exposure Lock)
- Manual Flash power control - 1/128 - 1/1 power (in 1/3 steps)
- Godox 2.4GHz X Radio system
- Canon, Nikon, Sony, Radio Slave Modes (switches automatically)
- Range- 100m if used as a transmitter X1T or XPro
- Groups - A / B / C / D / E
- 32 Channels
- Canon, Nikon, Sony, optical wireless slave modes
- S1/S2 optical slave modes
- Flash duration Fresnel on - 1/220s - 1/13000s
- Flash duration on bare bulb - 1/220s - 1/11300s
- Colour temperature - 5600 +/- 200k
- 14.4V 2900mAh lithium battery
- 520 full power flashes
- 0.01 - 2.1 seconds response time
- LED modelling lights (fresnel end only)
- USB port for firmware updates
- 3.5mm sync port
Excellent price/performance ratio. The power goes a long way in the end, and the size of the flash means it can be carried nicely in a smaller backpack. A small minus comes from the somewhat flimsy design and switches - it's hard to imagine that it will last very many drops on the floor, but for this price range you can hardly ask for such a thing. A separate metal protector for the bare bulb head is a must-have accessory if you move this around a bit more!
Very good, efficient flash.Came quickly in the mail.