By Sal Cincotta Let’s be honest, most of us don’t have access to couples in exotic locations. I often find myself envious of photographers who get to shoot in all these amazing locations and destinations: beaches, cliffs, castles, sweeping landscapes and more. What do I have? I am stuck in the Midwest in a blue-collar… Continue reading »
Apr
14
ExpoImaging Makes Spotlighting Easy
ExpoImaging (Watsonville, CA, 800/446-5086, www.expoimaging.com) recently introduced the Rogue Grid, the newest addition to the popular Rogue FlashBender product line. Designed to securely attach to almost all standard shoe-mount flash units, the Rogue Grid produces three distinct levels of spot lighting control. When attached to the primary light source it creates a spot light with… Continue reading »
Apr
13
Affordable Speedlite from Quantum
Quantum Instruments (Hauppauge NY, 631/656-7400, www.qtm.com) is marketing the new Qflash TRIO BASIC speedlite. Designed for Nikon and Canon Digital SLRs, the Qflash TRIO features high-speed sync capabilities, as well as Manual, Auto, Auto-Fill, TTL and Program (Pre-Sets) modes. It includes removable long and short power cords, a removable reflector, a user-replaceable flash tube, and… Continue reading »
Apr
12
Ion Battery Powered Strobe Kit from Photoflex
Photoflex (Watsonville, CA, www.photoflex.com) recently introduced the high-powered TritonFlash lithium-ion battery- powered strobe kit. Designed for situations that require powerful output without the availability of AC power, the new kit includes TritonFlash strobe (300 watt- seconds with a 185 guide number), extra small OctoDome SoftBox with connector, built-in optical slave sensor, FlashFire wireless kit for… Continue reading »
Apr
11
Economical Fluorescent Lighting from Interfit
Interfit (www.Interfitphotographic.com), a leading manufacturer of photographic lighting, recently introduced Super Cool-lite 6 Fluorescent lighting. Designed from the ground up, the Super Cool-lite 6 features a rear grab handle, fully illuminated switches and new self-contained fixings for the high-contrast reflector and soft-box fitting built into the head. Its 32-watt lamps deliver output equivalent to 650… Continue reading »
Apr
08
Entry-level Lighting Equipment from Broncolor
Swiss lighting manufacturer, broncolor (www.broncolor.com), is marketing newly designed power packs and lamps targeted for students and beginning professional photographers. The new Senso power packs, available in two models, provide symmetric and free asymmetric power distribution over three lamp outlets in two channels. They feature easy-to-read power output displays—switchable from f-stops to Joules; built-in RFS… Continue reading »
Apr
07
Renowned Photographer Vincent Laforet Chooses Anton/Bauer Batteries
Award-winning director and photographer Vincent Laforet, exclusively uses Anton/Bauer (Shelton, CT, www.antonbauer.com) batteries to film commercials and films. He uses Anton/Bauer Dionic HC batteries to power all his equipment, including the Canon 5D Mark II and 7D cameras, Marshall monitors and Litepanels lights. Laforet chose the Dionic HC because it’s highly dependable and provides two… Continue reading »
Apr
06
Aurora Lite Bank Chooses Pakor as U.S. Distributor
Aurora Lite Bank (Republic of Korea), manufacturer of studio flash and LED lighting products, has named Pakor (Minneapolis, MN, www.pakor.com) as exclusive U.S. distributor of its Aurora brand studio flash, soft-box and LED lighting products and accessories. As part of the agreement, Pakor will begin introducing new Aurora products, including new Orion studio flash kits,… Continue reading »
Apr
05
Songfreedom Lets Photographers Use Popular Music Legally
Songfreedom (314/884-220, www.songfreedom.com) gives professional photographers and cinematographers the ability to economically buy usage rights to today’s most popular music. Created in response to the music industry’s growing litigation against the illegal use of copyrighted music, Songfreedom makes available for less than $40 a month, the license needed to legally use music by such popular… Continue reading »
Apr
04
New SanDisk SDHC Cards Use UHS-I Technology
SanDisk (Milpitas, CA, www.sandisk.com) is marketing the SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I cards, featuring Ultra High Speed (UHS) technology derived from the newly released SD 3.0 specification. The new cards also use SanDisk’s proprietary Power Core Controller while adhering to the new UHS Speed Class 1 video class rating. That guarantees a minimum sustained write… Continue reading »