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Photogenic PL5R-Fresnel: A Special Purpose Light Modifier
Lighting Equipment
Steve Bedell • Jan 25, 2013 • Published: Dec 01, 2012 • 0 comments
Fresnel lenses are used to focus light. Many of the Hollywood glamour photographers of the 1930s and ’40s used them, most notably George Hurrell for his portraits of many of the screen legends of that era. Hurrell used 8x10 cameras, uncoated lenses, and bulky Mole-Richardson hot lights. You don’t have to go that route, but you can now replicate some of the lighting effects with this new offering from Photogenic.
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Photogenic StudioMax II
Lighting Equipment, Test Reports
Joe Farace • Dec 01, 2003 • 0 comments

Photogenic's StudioMax II is the kind of monolight I've been trying to find for a long time. It's lightweight, powerful, and accepts battery power so it can be used on locations where the nearest AC outlet is a city block or county away.
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photokina Special Coverage; Lighting Highlights
Lighting Equipment
Ron Eggers • Jan 01, 2007 • 0 comments

Wireless flash control is really big right now. For a long time, wireless systems primarily used slave triggering or infrared technology to fire strobes remotely. Increasingly, though, RF (Radio Frequency) systems are becoming the norm. RF systems, which generally provide multiple frequencies, make it possible to have a number of different photographers shooting with their own...
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photokina: Pro Lighting Report: Leds Come On Strong
Equipment Reviews, Lighting Equipment
Roger W. Hicks • Apr 05, 2013 • Published: Mar 01, 2013 • 0 comments
Roger Hicks’s “Pro Lighting Report” is part of our continuing series of reports from the photokina show. With a giant hall filled with lighting products, Roger reports here on what caught his eye and what he saw as the key trends at the show. We will continue with new lighting product reports in coming issues, with a special report coming out of the WPPI show held in March, and will catch up on more new products not mentioned here then. We consider lighting a key issue for all photographers and will have more tests ahead throughout the year.—Editor
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PMA 08; Best Of Show
Accessories, Compact Digital Cameras, Lenses, Lighting Equipment, Pro-Quality Digital SLRs, Show Reports, Software & Computers
Shutterbug Staff • Jun 01, 2008 • 0 comments

As part of our annual Photo Marketing Association (PMA) coverage we ask our reporters to deliver a "Best of Show" award. While each contributor had their own beat, we also asked them to go beyond their respective area of coverage to find what, for them, signified a breakthrough product, technology, or new trend that they felt would affect all photographers in the...
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PMA 08; Studio And Mobile Lighting
Lighting Equipment, Show Reports
Jack Neubart • Jun 01, 2008 • 0 comments

It appears someone hit the dimmer switch when it came to lighting this year: the number of entries was sporadic, at best. But the good news is that there were a few shining lights. In strobe lighting the focus was entirely on self-contained monopacs, notably in lighting designed with digital control, smaller and easier-to-use lights, and one super-lightweight battery...
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PMA Show Report; Portable Flash And Lighting Accessories; Light On The Go
Accessories, Lighting Equipment, Show Reports
Robert E. Mayer • Jun 01, 2010 • 0 comments

This year we’re seeing a surprising number of new ringlights plus lots of accessory light modifiers, dedicated cords, flash brackets, and continuous LED lights which are helpful when making videos with multipurpose D-SLR cameras.

Aputure’s Trigmaster makes controlling a studio strobe or Speedlight wirelessly easier at distances of up to 300 feet with 16 different...
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PMA Show Report; Studio Lighting; Strobe, Hot Lights, And Digital
Lighting Equipment, Show Reports
Jack Neubart • Jun 01, 2010 • 0 comments

This year saw few major product launches in studio lighting, although we did manage to uncover some interesting lights and accessories nonetheless.

Dot Line Corp./RPS Studio introduced the Complete 7-in-1 Reflector. This folding reflector comes with a translucent panel, white, silver, sunlight (a mix of gold and silver), and gold reflectors, plus an 18 percent gray target for...
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Portable Strobe Systems; Location Lighting In One Neat Package
Lighting Equipment
Jack Neubart • Oct 01, 2009 • 0 comments

When you need the power and versatility of a studio strobe for location shooting and environmental portraiture but don’t want to schlep around a large, heavy studio system, you can turn to a portable lighting kit.
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Portraits To Go With JTL’s Mobilight 300
Wireless Triggering For The Location Photographer
Lighting Equipment, Test Reports
Joe Farace • Mar 01, 2005 • 0 comments

Riddle me this: What's the hardest thing to find on any location shoot? If you said, "clients who were on time," that would be partially true, but the correct answer is--an AC power outlet. They're even more difficult to find if you're at the beach, in a park, or as I often find myself, on a racetrack somewhere. One of the niftiest solutions...
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Profoto D1 Light And Asymmetrical HR Softbox 1.5x3: A Unique Light & Light Modifier
Equipment Reviews, Lighting Equipment
Steve Bedell • Oct 18, 2012 • Published: Sep 01, 2012 • 1 comments
Recently I had an opportunity to test Profoto’s D1 monolight and their HR Softbox 1.5x3. To check out the combo the company sent along a Profoto D1 Air Kit that includes two D1 monolights, stands, umbrellas, and a case. I did not have the Air Remote to control the units from camera position.
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Quantum's Leap
The Qflash T4d Digital
Accessories, Lighting Equipment, Test Reports
Joe Farace • Dec 01, 2004 • 0 comments

All Photos © 2004, Joe Farace, All Rights Reserved

The Quantum Qflash T4d Digital is a serious flash unit that combines the form factor and user interface of the kind of high-end flash units that camera manufacturers charge big bucks for with the kind of power normally found in small monobloc studio strobes. Then there's that removable reflector that...
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Quantum’s Turbo Slim Compact Battery & More; The Studio In A Shoebox Revisited
Lighting Equipment
Joe Farace • Oct 01, 2007 • 0 comments

More than 20 years ago, photographer and photographic genius Gary Regester showed us all how to create a lighting system that used two shoe-mounted flash units and would indeed fit inside a shoebox. Over the years I've tried to create something similar--a set of small electronic flash units and all the required ephemera that would fit inside a small carrying case. But I...
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Radical New Trilite Incandescent Cold Light
Lighting Equipment, Test Reports
Robert E. Mayer • Nov 01, 2000 • 0 comments

Like the Monty Python bunch used to say, "And now for something completely different!" That's the only way to describe this new piece of lighting equipment. This incandescent light has three spiral screw-in fluorescent lamp tubes that produce a...
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RadioPoppers: No Wires, Few Limitations
Lighting Equipment
Steve Bedell • Sep 19, 2011 • Published: Aug 01, 2011 • 0 comments
One of the biggest advancements in recent years in flash photography has been the ability to use your camera-compatible flash off-camera and wirelessly. Canon, Nikon, and others have developed their own systems where you can control multiple units that not only fire at the same time but also can be put into groups with their own settings.
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