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Profoto has announced a brand-new light, the Profoto A2 Monolight. The light is designed to be easy to use and extremely compact. The A2 is about the size of a soda can and weighs 495 grams (17.5 ounces). If you're after portability, Profoto has designed the A2 for you.
The A2 includes AirX connectivity, so you can use...
If you want to freeze action, strobes are a great way to do so. An important aspect to achieving this goal is to shorten your flash's duration. Some strobes include a high-speed or t-mode which will shorten the flash duration. To ensure that your camera's shutter syncs with the short flash, you need to use a high speed...
Photonicz inventor - and commercial photographer - Alex Munoz argues that the Photonicz One is the last light you'll ever need. Munoz states, "While camera manufacturers continue to innovate, today's photography strobes are unable to keep up with those advancements…[Photonicz] set out to create a new approach to strobe...
A few years ago, BBC Future wrote a feature about Harold Eugene Edgerton, a longtime electrical engineering professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and pioneer of flash photography. A post on Reddit about Edgerton recently appeared, so it feels like a great time to take a look back at his work and the lasting...
Off camera flash can be tricky enough to get involved with as it is, but the eternal debate between choosing speedlights or studio strobes makes it all the more daunting for beginners. Photographer Joe Edelman has made a video discussing the pros and cons of both speedlights and monolights and which flash is better. So...
Priolite recently launched a very successful Kickstarter campaign for their new Priolite Ultra monolight. The campaign, which as of today has more than doubled its $28,000 goal, has six days left and is nearing its $65,000 stretch goal of a wide angle reflector for everyone who has made a pledge for a strobe.
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Germany's Metz-Werke GmbH & Co KG has today filed for insolvency, a brief article from Reuters confirms. Referred to by Reuters' Frankfurt desk as being a television maker, Metz is better known to photographers for its third-party Metz Mecablitz flash strobes, as well as a variety of lighting-related accessories....
Nikon shooters: Have you got a little extra cash burning a hole in your pocket? If so, we have the cure: two new accessories that will pair nicely with your Nikon DSLR!
Announced today, the Nikon AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens is a bright, ultra wide-angle prime lens for FX-format cameras that, says its maker,...
Attaching a flash modifier can be a tricky business. Either you need a special mount designed specifically for just your flash, or else it's a matter of velcro, elastic, cloth, and a hodge-podge of other materials to get it to stay in place. But the new Kickstarter MagMod is aiming to change all of that, with a magnetic...
Flashes are fast — after all, it's right there in the name. But if you're doing some truly super-fast high-speed photography, the type with razor thin margins of error, and excruciatingly fast moving objects, then sometimes a traditional strobe just isn't enough. In which case, you need an air-gap flash, which will give...
For a while now, we've been asking Pentax when it would offer weather-sealed flash strobes. Dust and water-resistant sealing is available in varying degrees across much of Pentax's product line, including camera bodies, lenses, grips, and remote controls, but external strobes have been the one chink in the company's weather-sealed armor.
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Last year, Nikon introduced the Coolpix L610, a reasonably compact travel zoom with a handy 25 to 350mm-equivalent zoom range. Today, it follows up with a successor -- the Nikon L620 -- which takes the same basic formula but boosts resolution slightly, among other changes. And if point-and-shoot cameras aren't your thing, the company also has...
Getting enough light to capture good portraits while outside of the studio can be tricky. You can use a strobe and be stuck with a harsh, direct light. You can take your softboxes with you but then have to lug them everywhere and deal with power supplies. You can use natural light but be stuck when it gets dark out. Or,...
Want to improve your photos and unleash your creativity, all in one fell swoop? As the folks at the popular Strobist blog will tell you, off-camera flash can take your photography to the next level. Photography is all about capturing light, and the more of it you can put on your subject, the more the camera has to work with -- but on-camera...
This video (below) from science and illusion explainer brusspup looks all but magical. He shows a moving stream of water, frozen in mid-air in a waveform that seems to be suspended no matter how he moves around it. But it’s a straightforward scientific explanation that also demonstrates a classic illusion seen in many...