For portrait photography Cobra SLR flashes deliver a way too harsh light for our subjects. There are various accessories on the market to soften the light emitted by our flashes like portable light boxes, rather bulky and expensive, often difficult to put on the camera / flash. An other commonly used solution is these small [...]
The Panasonic DMW-FL360L flash is the MFT prosumer camera Lumix DMC-GH3 natural flash. This new flash is now better known thanks to the Japanese website DCWatch which reveales a few technical specs about the first wireless controlled flash in Panasonic’s range. It offers a rather average guide number of 36 at ISO 100 and the flash head can [...]
Metz unleashed today the very first shotgun flash with a touch screen. The Metz Mecablitz 52 AF-1 is based on the 50 AF-1 model. The new design of the Mets 52 AF-1 is pretty flat, but the flash is still quite powerful with a guide number of 52 at ISO 100/21° and a focal length [...]
I wanted to make a quick focus on a very useful, fun and well designed website if you are into studio photography and studio lighting. It is called guessthelighting.com and everything is in its name : you see a photo, you have to guess the lighting, then the author gives you the solution, the lighting [...]
Manfrotto is launching an interesting range of LED lights that should please all photographers that are now willing to turn into videographers, with both continuous light and hybrid light products. We have so many great 1080p HDSLR now (Nikon D800, Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Sony NEX-VG20…). Check this out. Manfrotto LED panels The new [...]
Along with the Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon announced a couple of top notch flashes, the Speedlite 600EX and 600EX-RT. The first on is the successor of the Speedlite 580EX II with an improved blitz power (the guide number rises to 60) and a wider angle of view coverage with an equivalent to a [...]
