1. Does anyone know the color temp of these? I have just spent 15 minutes looking, even downloading the manual, with n success. I am pretty confident they are cool, probably around 6000-6500, but the actual temp rating appears to be a secret, or my internet search skills are lacking today.

2. Does the remote control work feature with any master strobe, or does it require only another Backscatter strobe as the trigger? The manual and promotional stuff seems to suggest a Backscatter strobe is required, but there is not great clarity and they would surely prefer that customers use the same brand, so there may not be much incentive to be clear on that point.

Thank you

I would suggest as it's mostly used for macro with a dark BG , colour temperature probably doesn't matter, just adjust white balance to taste, you are not trying to balance ambient light against strobe light generally.

Agree it doesn't seem published anywhere and as it's a small linear flash tube, kelvin value is probably high.

I suspect that the MF3 uses the same flash tube as the MF2 which has a color temp of about 6K without diffuser.

Bill

17 hours ago, bvanant said:

I suspect that the MF3 uses the same flash tube as the MF2 which has a color temp of about 6K without diffuser.

Bill

I agree. Seems to be an MF-2 with Sony TTL and perhaps a bit brighter focus light added.

Makes sense and you are right, can adjust easily enough and less important for macro anyway.