All relative, what is perceived as "serious amount of lighting power" was vastly common back in the days of studio centric sheet film image making.
Majority of folks working with sheet film in studio doing product images which are much like still-life had several 4000watt/second or 3000watt/second power packs with several flash heads and a Boat Load of light modifiers and a pile of grip and lighting related Do-Dads..
Alterative was to "multi-pop" which was also very, very common. That Minolta flash meter IV has a "multi" setting to meter the effective exposure f-stop after multi-pops from the strobe/flash. This was a common flash meter feature back in the day. Single was preferred, except single was not always an option.
Once the subject and camera was set, most of the time spent was on lighting followed by pull-A-roids before any film was exposed.
The two Elinchrom 3000AS power packs used for this setup..
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