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Page 1: Operating Instructions
Knox Photographic Society Jinbei HD601 Monolight System Operating Instructions Written by Noel Butcher (with annoying but ultimately useful additions, suggestions, hints and thoughts by Richard Kelly). Updated February 4 2019 Page 1 of 26... - Page 2 Welcome. Please read these instructions carefully before using these lights. KPS has spent a considerable sum of money purchasing this equipment for the benefit of all KPS members. Please treat all KPS equipment with the utmost care and respect. We realise that sometimes things go wrong. If you find something isn’t working as it should please let us know ASAP so that it can be rectified before another KPS...
- Page 3 If you are not familiar with the operation of our Jinbei lights, please READ THIS MANUAL CAREFULLY before attempting to use the lights. Just need a refresher in how to use them? Here’s a summary • Set up the stands •...
- Page 4 Equipment List (as at December 2017) Jinbei HD601 Monolights (includes battery, charger and leads, case with strap) x3 Monolight Serial Numbers: HD601AH030297, HD601AH030466 and HD601AE230295 Charger Serial Numbers: EV201705008971, EV201706017408 and EV2017060176908 Jinbei TR-Q6 C Smart Bluetooth Transmitter for Canon x1...
- Page 5 Setting Up Setting up the light stands is very easy. Unclip the top of a stand from its neighbour by pushing down on the triangular blue button near the blue locking lever. Pull the stand away from its neighbour. Unlock the locking lever. Unlocked Locked Pull out the bottom of the legs as far as they will go (may require separating from the...
- Page 6 When you attach a monolight to the stand please ensure that the brass attachment at the top of the stand is completely hidden from view (apart from the knurled section at the very bottom). You may need to ‘jiggle’ the head into position or undo the locking screw on the monolight a little more to achieve this.
- Page 7 Monolights should always have the protective cover over the flash tube whenever the lights are not in use. Flashtubes are delicate and expensive so please be careful when removing and replacing the flash tube covers. Allow lights to cool for a few minutes before fitting protective cover The protective covers and softboxes, snoots etc are attached using a bayonet...
- Page 8 Carefully pull out the edges of the soft box so that it looks like the image at right. IMPORTANT! Please check that the soft box splines are NOT showing as per our image at right If any splines are misaligned please carefully place them into the velcro pouch as per our image at left.
- Page 9 Pushing the hub down will eventually engage the lock. Again, be careful doing this as it can bite. Don’t say you haven’t been warned. With the lock engaged the soft box should look like this. The fabric should be taut. This is the 90cm Deep Softbox but the 120 cm softboxes will look similar.
- Page 10 Once the soft box is firmly assembled it can be placed onto the monolight. DO NOT TRY TO ASSEMBLE SOFTBOX TO MONOLIGHT ON A STAND. Please be careful in attaching the soft box to the monolight. Remember it is a bayonet mount that requires a slight twist .Carefully align the lugs on the softbox with the slots on the monolight so as to...
- Page 11 The inner diffusers have tabs as per our image above. The outer diffusers do not have tabs but continuous Velcro around the edges which attaches to the Velcro edges of the softboxes. Here’s a hint for fitting the diffusers. Start at the top of the soft box unless you like making things difficult for yourself.
- Page 12 Once attached the diffuser should look like the image at left. Again, fitting from the top is easiest. Again, please be careful fitting/removing the diffusers as the material is delicate. We have fabric grids for all softboxes which can be used to help prevent light spreading too wide.
- Page 13 The five in one reflector contains a black, white, silver, gold and translucent reflector suitable for different purposes. They need to be twisted into shape to return them to the bag. These reflectors can also be used to amuse young children or easily amused adults by having the reflector snap into shape as it comes from the bag.
- Page 14 There is also one standard reflector which could be used for a hard light onto the subject or perhaps when bouncing light from a monolight onto a ceiling or other surface. Monolights Each monolight comes in its own case with battery and charger. Please remove the batteries from the monolights for transport.
- Page 15 Before use, you will need to fit the battery to the monolight. Each monolight has a groove within the battery compartment for the corresponding lug on the battery. The battery is held in place by the clip activated by the button as shown at left.
- Page 16 Each battery has a check button which is on the underside of the battery. Should you need to charge the batteries the set-up needs to be as shown at left. There is a tiny light on the charger to indicate whether or not charging is complete.
- Page 17 Batteries firmly in place on the monolights, monolights. firmly in place on the stands and any softboxes or other accessories firmly in place on the monolights and you are nearly ready to go. Different brands of cameras have different hot shoe mounts with different pin configurations as per our examples below.
- Page 18 The remote units fit to the hot shoe atop your camera just like a regular flash unit. Important! Ensure the remote is attached to your camera and switched on before setting your camera flash controls. Just like your flash there is an unlock button to release the locking pin so don’t try to remove the remote controller without depressing the unlock button,...
- Page 19 The remotes only speak their own language i.e. Nikon, Sony, Canon or Fuji but the monolights are multi-lingual – but only if you set them correctly, which easy to do. The remotes have Channels and Groups. The monolights have Channels, Groups and ‘Language’...
- Page 20 See Page 25 for HSS (High Speed Sync) A two second push on the sync button will enable Bluetooth so that you can use the Jinbei app on your phone to control the lights. Link: http://www.goldenshell.com.cn/en/Home/Download/upgrade.html (You will need a QR Scanner to access the download –...
- Page 21 (for a few seconds) the button above the word MODEL. As soon as you see the white screen with Jinbei in red showing you can release the button. Once the light is ready the digital display will show and the test light will glow green.
- Page 22 3 again will move the adjustable figure to allow adjustment. • Button 4 turns the optical slave on or off (this means that the monolights can be fired by using a non Jinbei electronic flash). In Menu 4, • Easy Cap is initiated. Easy Cap is beyond the scope of this manual but basically the lights can be set to fire individually to make it easy to cut out the subject from the background using image processing software.
- Page 23 • If the image is too dark then you need to increase the exposure. To do this ensure that Group A is highlighted (by a square around A) on the remote then press the Plus key. A short press increases the output, and hence brightness, of the light one tenth of a stop (or not very much at all).
- Page 24 If like me, you like being able to compose and focus, you will need to set your camera accordingly. Consult your manual on how to do this. On a Fuji X-T2, this is done by going to the Spanner Menu/Screen Setup/Preview Exp/ WB in Manual Mode and turn this setting OFF.
- Page 25 Please note that not all cameras will work with HSS. Either they were not designed for it or the firmware of the Jinbei HD601 may not recognise this capability. We recently had a case of a modern camera for which the Jinbei remote needed a firmware upgrade.
- Page 26 The Jinbei 601 also has a mode called Freeze Mode where it is possible to dial in the DURATION of the flash exposure. The HD 601 can be set to a minimum duration of 1/19,000th of a second, which is pretty quick.
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