Sony has launched two new shoe-mount, speedlight-style strobes for the Alpha system: the HVL-F60RM2 and HVL-F46RM. Both are capable of continuous 10 frames per second flashes or have sub-two second recycle times at full power.
Sony positions the two new speedlights as powerful wireless flashes that allow for precise control, enhanced speed, and intuitive operation. […]. petapixel.com
My favorite things to review for this website are flashes. Most people read about cameras and lenses. But the true creators care about light. Flash is unfortunately a place where there needs to be a lot more innovation. thephoblographer.com »
2021-10-21 17:05
Many reviews online talk about how the Sony a9 III is great for photographing birds. But those reviews are catered more towards photographers who look and don't see. That is, they capture, and they don't create.
Canon has delayed the launch of the Speedlite EL-5 due to production issues that prevented it from being able to make enough of them. [Read More]
Paul C. Buff has announced a new 500Ws compact and lightweight battery strobe called the Celestial, which features a bright LED modeling light, a built-in wireless receiver, and support for high-speed sync (HSS) and TTL shooting. [Read More]
One of the cool things that photographers can do is use a shoot-through reflector. Most of us use it to soften the light that the sun outputs and work with natural lighting. But did you realize that you can also use it to soften the light from a flash or a strobe.
When this was typed into our site's search engine, I immediately got excited. Yes, a flash can fix almost any sort of bad performance with a camera. Lots of new photographers are very afraid of flash so they only use constant light and neons.
Godox has announced the Lux Junior on-camera flash, a $69 retro-inspired strobe for Fujifilm, Canon, Nikon, OM-Digital (Olympus), and Sony cameras. [Read More]
During the dark ages of digital photography, also known as the early 2000s, I was spending an awful lot of time trying to get my Canon 430EX Speedlite to work as an off-camera flash.