Originally Posted by latinasojourn

yes, i use lowel fren-l 650's hotlights for video, and speedotron with multiple strobe heads for stills---i don't like monolights so much after i ruined a couple when they fell on the stands; i had my speedotron gear modified so it can use 110 or 220V for overseas travel without transformers, the manufacturer can do this in chicago for about 100 bucks.

i don't use a light meter but shoot with firewire with orangemicro repeaters directly into a 19 laptop about 20 feet away and then tweak f-stop so the exposures look good---because as you move in and out away from the model you must constantly tweak your f/stop for distance, and taking individual light readings while your working slows me down to much---if you've got it you see it immediately on the laptop and you can go on to the next shot.

i do have the model hold a standard jobo color chart which gives a color reference, and then batch tweak WB to speed production.

but everyone has there own way.