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Profoto Pro-B4 1000 Air Announced

August 27, 2012 By Eric Reagan

Profoto Por-B4 1000 Air

Profoto has announced the new Pro-B4 1000 Air with a crazy flash durations down to 1/25,000 of a second (significantly improving on the speed of the Pro-B3).  The Pro-B4 1000 Air can fire up to 30 flashes per second at the lowest power setting and will recycle in less than a second at full power.  Power output is controlled in 1/10 f-stop increments and can be displayed in f-stops or watt seconds.

The Pro-B4’s Li-Ion battery can fully recharge in under 45 minutes and can even be recharged while in use.  The chassis is solid-cast aluminum and is wrapped in a sturdy rubber frame to handle those rough gigs.

Filed Under: Lighting Tagged With: flash, Lighting, Pro-B4 1000 Air, Profoto, strobe

 

Profoto Pro Plus Flash Heads Unveiled

August 27, 2012 By Eric Reagan

Profoto Pro Plus

Profoto has launched the new Pro Plus line of flash heads with feature upgrades to the classic ProHead.

Compatible with over 120 different Profoto Light Shaping Tools and accessories, Pro Head Plus and Pro-B Head Plus have the following four upgrades: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Lighting Tagged With: flash, flash head, Pro Plus, Profoto, strobe

Speedlight Gels and Softbox Grids with Joe McNally

August 24, 2012 By Eric Reagan

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Here’s a great video from Joe McNally and Adorama TV.  Joe’s working a Nikon D800 with the built-in flash as the commander flash, a Lastolite Ezybox softbox with grid and a red-gelled speedlight for a background light.

If you haven’t checked out Joe’s book, The Hot Shoe Diaries, there’s lots more of great speedlight info like this in there.

[via FStoppers]

Filed Under: Learn Tagged With: Ezybox, flash, grid, Joe McNally, lastolite, softbox, speedlight

Getting The Most Out Of Canon Speedlites with Syl Arena

February 28, 2012 By Eric Reagan

Canon Speedlite

Syl Arena recently put on a Speedliting class at B&H Photo‘s event space.  The very cool folks at B&H have made the entire 1 hour 43 minute presentation available to watch online for free.  Check it out below. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Learn Tagged With: b&H, b&h photo, Canon, flash, Lighting, photography, Speedlite, syl arena

Light and Lighting – New Book from Syl Arena

February 16, 2012 By Eric Reagan

Light and Lighting

Light and Lighting is an upcoming book from Syl Arena. His last book, Speedliter’s Handbook, is awesome and takes the cake in terms of Canon Speedlite instruction.  It’s the book that should come with every Speedlite sold – or, at least the book that anyone who wants to learn how to properly use a Speedlite with their Canon camera.

Syl takes a more basic and brand-agnostic approach with Light and Lighting, as he notes below.

As part of Peachpit’s From Snapshots to Great Shots series, it will present fundamental concepts about light and various techniques of photographic lighting at a level accessible to novice shooters.

Syl is a great photographer and author.  Expect this to be a real gem for getting your lighting feet underneath you.  Light and Lighting is due out in June of this year and is available for pre-order from Amazon now.

[via Speedliting.com]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: flash, Light and Lighting, Lighting, photography, Speedlite

Canon Lens and Speedlite Instant Rebates Extended

January 17, 2012 By Eric Reagan

Canon Lens and Speedlite Instant Rebates

Canon’s lens and Speedlite instant rebates have been extended through February 4, 2012.  Full details and breakdown here at B&H.

Filed Under: Canon Tagged With: 2012, Canon, Deals, fall, flash, Lenses, Rebates, sale, Speedlite, winter

Joe McNally’s New Book: ‘Sketching Light’

December 5, 2011 By Eric Reagan

Sketching Light by Joe McNally

Joe McNally has a new book.  It’s called Sketching Light.  It’s pretty big at 432 pages.  And, it’s all about lighting.

He tells readers what works and what doesn’t via his let’s-see-what-happens approach, he shows how he sets up his shots with plentiful sketches and behind-the-scenes production shots….

I loved his earlier lighting book, The Hot Shoe Diaries, and I’m really looking forward to this new book.  I enjoy McNally’s stories and wit about as much as I do the information he provides.  Expect good stuff.

Sketching Light retails for $49.99; however, you can find it for $29.99 on Amazon at the time of this post.  There’s also a Kindle version of Sketching Light.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book, flash, Joe McNally, Lighting, photography, Sketching Light, speedlight, strobe

Nikon SB-910 Speedlight Announced

November 30, 2011 By Eric Reagan

Nikon SB-910

Nikon has unveiled the SB-910 Speedlight, which now serves as the top-tier Speedlight in its lineup.

The SB-910 adds a new graphic interface and control set.  It also features a new thermal cut-out system that will increase recycle times as the flash heats up instead of shutting down completely while it cools off.

The SB-910 covers a 17-200mm angle of view range and will automatically detect whether it is attached to an FX or DX camera, and then adjust the zoom head accordingly.

Additionally, the SB-910 features new hard-type color compensation filters for fluorescent and incandescent color temperature balancing.  When applied, the SB-910 can change the white balance setting of the camera automatically.  The coverage patterns can be adjusted for standard, center-weighted and even for control over the light spread.

The SB-910 retails for $549.95 and will be available December 2011.  Check availability on Amazon and B&H.

Nikon SB-910

More info the the official press release below. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Nikon Tagged With: dslr, flash, Nikon, SB-910, speedlight

Speedotron Brown and Black Line Overview

November 8, 2011 By Eric Reagan

Speedotron 202VF

Speedotron has been in the photo gear business since 1939.  The core of the Speedotron products are the Brown line and Black line packs and heads.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Lighting Tagged With: Black line, Brown line, flash, Lighting, photography, photoplus, PhotoPlus 2011, Speedotron, strobe

PocketWizard at PhotoPlus 2011

October 27, 2011 By Eric Reagan

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I had a few minutes to catch up with the PocketWizard guys at PhotoPlus 2011 and Ian was kind enough to give a rundown of the current products in the PocketWizard line [Read more…]

Filed Under: Lighting Tagged With: AC3 Zone Controller, flash, FlexTT5, Lighting, MiniTT1, MultiMax, photoplus, PhotoPlus 2011, Plus II, PocketWizard, speedlight, ttl

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