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If I wanted to do this sort of stunt with video, we\\u2019d be talking the sort of lighting gear that they used in the days of Technicolor that left actors and actresses complaining about eye damage from the bright lights.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"But with strobe lights that already dump their power over a fraction of a second, it\\u2019s easy. All good strobes are actually brighter than the sun, it\\u2019s just that it\\u2019s over before it can cause damage. But you can put your hand in front of the flash and feel a bit of heat.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Now, you can\\u2019t shoot fast enough with standard optical slaves or even radio slaves and normal cameras to get the sky really impressively black with the sort of power you can get out of a battery powered strobe until the sun is very low in the sky. And that\\u2019s just no fun. 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