Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
Here’s a short video from Jay P. Morgan (of The Slanted Lens) on using a one light setup. Interestingly, he is shooting a model with a Canon 1D C with 4K video and pulling stills from the video frames. While he was shooting video in this session, the same lighting principles apply to still photography and strobes. [Read more…]
PocketWizard has a new Nikon Power Cable that works with the MiniTT1, Plus III and MultiMAX (w/ USB) transceivers. It will allows these transceivers to draw power from any Nikon DSLR that is equipped with a 10-pin remote port.
The PocketWizard transceivers use little power and, according to PocketWizard, have almost no impact on the camera’s battery life. The Nikon Power Cable (PW-DC-N10) is available for $20. You can find it here at B&H Photo.
Bob Harrington gave a speedlight presentation at B&H Photo’s Event Space on using one speedlight for multiple looks with a limited kit of modifiers.
Here’s his gear list:
The Fotodiox DY-200 LED Fresnel lights feature powerful light and offer focusable, dimmable, cool lighting options for video and studio photography work. Available in 5600K daylight and 3200K tungsten color temperatures, the DY-200 and DY-200w LED Fresnel lights feature accurate flicker-free light, low power draw, cool-to-the-touch operation, and remote controlled power and focus. A separate ballast unit and an adjustable yoke mounts on either a floor stand or hangs from a lighting grid for many mounting options. [Read more…]
Adorama has announced a new portable monolight kit under its in-house Flashpoint brand. The Flashpoint 180 monolight and battery kit includes a 180w/s monolight and two readily available NP-F960 batteries to power the light for up to 700 pops at full power. [Read more…]
The Rogue FlashBender XL Pro Lighting kit contains 4 extra-large speedlight modifiers in a compact package that packs flat in camera bags.
The 4 modifiers in the kit are:
The Rogue FlashBender XL Pro Lighting Kit retails for $99.95 and is available here at B&H Photo.
Fotodiox just rolled out a new pair of lights – the LED100WA. While they look like strobes, these are actually continuous LED lights available in either 3200K or 5600K color temperatures. [Read more…]
Elixxier’s 3D lighting simulator, set.a.light 3D Studio, looks like a rather slick pre-production tool for photo shoots. Inside the application, you can select lighting equipment and simulate your next shoot before ever setting up a piece of gear. [Read more…]
Check out the below BTS video for Profoto Master Series with Greg Heisler as he talks his way through the his approach to shooting Bill & Melinda Gates and Bono for the cover of Time’s Person of the Year cover for 2005.
Lots of good pre-production thoughts and then curve ball adjustments once people started arriving on his set. [Read more…]
Even though we are now in April, I am still digging through things I saw while at CES 2013 back in January. One of the interesting things for Pentax shooters was a new speedlight mockup on display in the Pentax booth.
The only official thing I can reveal about it is that Pentax was “showing a reference model of new flashes.” Boring, eh?
Well, you can see in the images below what Pentax might have going on with its new flash unit(s) at some point in the probably reasonably near future. Feel free to speculate away. And, if you spot something that jumps out at you, please let us know in the comments. [Read more…]