Interfit Honey Badger Unleashed

£800/$600 The ‘unleashed’ honey badger goes wild

Slightly larger and nearly a kilogram heavier than the mains-powered Honey Badger head, the ‘Unleased’ edition runs on a rechargeable battery. Indeed, unlike the Elinchrom and Profoto battery-powered kits, you can’t run it from the mains, so you might need to add a spare battery or two to your kit.

Our test option of the kit includes two heads, batteries and mains chargers, two 60cm pop-up softboxes and a sturdy backpack. The optional Interfit HSS TTL remote trigger is also great value at £80/$110 and enables TTL and high speed sync flash modes.

Unlike the mains kit, there’s no cooling fan. This enables the Unleashed edition to be near-silent in operation, which is a bonus when using its bright

N-photo verdict

While it only has half the power rating of the other battery-powered flash heads, this kit remains a smart buy. 2500 lumens LED modelling lamp as a constant light source.

Performance

Although the 250Ws head gives less output than the 500Ws heads on test, this is the only battery-powered kit in the group that features two flash heads, rather than one, making it excellent value at the price.

Power Output

The 9-stop power range is impressive, with a decent top end for a 250Ws head, and the availability of very subtle output at lower settings.

CONTROL PANEL The control panel at the rear is a little more simple than in the mains edition and the absence of a cooling fan makes it virtually silent in operation.