Not in my opinion. I’m a more practical user and I don’t care what lights do at night as much as I care about how they work in the day, when I normally work. And there isn’t an XL shoot through umbrella for that continuous light so I can’t use the same modifier, nor would I because of the continuous light’s power limitation. I used both lights in the manner of how I would use them, working with their pros and cons, in that scenario. To me that’s more valuable and practical than a clinical review and comparison, but totally ok if that’s not what is valuable to you.
One difference I've noticed is the dilation of the pupils -- with continuous bright light, the subject's eyes will have adjusted by shrinking the pupils, while they don't have a chance to with a sudden flash.
So to get a more dramatic look you would darken the exposure on your in camera settings? and to make the flash work as if it were natural light you bring it further back and brighten the settings in your camera?
Images using continuous light tend to be a little 'softer', less 'crisp' than the flash images. The flash exposure analog to the shutter speed is the flash duration, around 1/1000", while the continuous shutter speed tends to be around 1/100". The slower effective light time allows for micro-jitters, both with the subject and the camera, softening the image.
A topic worthy of two more books: Continuous Light Handbook: 32 Scenarios for Creating Beautiful Light and Stunning Photographs And The Complete Lighting Handbook: 32 Scenarios for Advanced Combined Off Camera Flash and Continuous Light Photography to Make You Drool.
There's a weird magenta color cast in the first continuous light. Is that the issue with tint and WB or was there some lighting contamination? Thanks for your video.
but the continuous Rotolight light has also an integrated flash function that doubles the brightness and is Elinchrom flashes compatible and the studio flash has also an integrated continuous light !
