I've seen a couple of posts pop up with [strobes]; I think we may want to prefer [flash] or, at least, the variations discussed here: What term should we adopt for Speedlights/Speedlites?
Any objections/other opinions?
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\$\begingroup\$ I agree, but that seems like not enough for an answer. \$\endgroup\$– ReidCommented Jul 28, 2010 at 2:06
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I think the distinction is somewhere around what fresnel lens question suggests: "strobe" almost always refers to studio equipment, so we might use them when having questions that deal with those.
So what about having:
[flash]as generic term for something that delivers short burst of light[strobes]for studio units[small-flash][hotshoe-flash]for hotshoe-mounted, battery powered stuff, which we'd call[speedlights]or[speedlites]in case we wanted to talk about specific brand
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\$\begingroup\$ +1 - but personally I think I would suggest
[hotshoe-flash]over[small-flash]or[speedlight]/[speedlite]. "Hotshoe" is brand neutral, and there are small units intended for studio use (such as small slave units and such), so "small" might not quite hit the target. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jul 28, 2010 at 9:27 -
\$\begingroup\$ I guess preference for "small flash" comes from Strobist where it's more common, maybe different resources tend to call them "hotshoe": googlefight.com/… \$\endgroup\$– cheCommented Jul 28, 2010 at 10:27
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2\$\begingroup\$ As a non-strobist, "small-flash" is not as obviously referring to all flashguns as "hotshoe-flash", which is pretty immediately obvious to me. E.g., Contax TLA200: small flash. Canon 580: not small flash. (Aside: is the distinction on strobist maybe down to the emphasis on off-camera use of these flashes?) \$\endgroup\$– ex-msCommented Jul 28, 2010 at 20:06
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\$\begingroup\$ It could be because of that. Changed to hotshoe, then. \$\endgroup\$– cheCommented Jul 29, 2010 at 7:16