With a lot of power inside what’s not much larger than a camera lens, the Profoto B10X packs a lot of power into an on-site light. It’s 250 Ws of flash and 3250 lumens of continuous light in a light that’s only 3.
3 pounds. But, the monolight comes at a high price point — $1,995, to be exact. Is the power worth the price?. thephoblographer.com
Spiffy Gear has launched a new wearable LED light called Lumee that features a ‘slap bracelet’ design with magnets for attaching it to metal surfaces. The light is splash-proof, rechargeable, and offered in two varieties: an RGB model and a CRI 95, 2700-6500K bi-color model. dpreview.com »
2019-09-07 00:23
Adorama's ORLIT RoveLight RT 610 TTL Monolight is quite a powerful package. With 600 watt seconds of power, it's going to give you more than enough light output to light a wedding hall and for most portraiture gigs. thephoblographer.com »
2018-03-07 14:00
Many materials show internal stress when illuminated with polarized light and photographed with a second analyzing polarizer. This unique property of materials is called birefringence. Some of the more common material that exhibits this property is glass, ice, and most plastics. petapixel.com »
2017-01-11 20:41
Lumulabs is showing off its new Lumu Power light and color temperature meter add-on for smartphones that was successfully funded through a Kickstarter campaign earlier this year. Attached to an iPhone, the Lumu Power can measure ambient light and flash output, as well as color temperature. dpreview.com »
2016-09-21 19:05
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.