Choosing Big Lights: Profoto
If you are shopping for Big Guns, you cannot help but lust after consider Profoto. Among high-end pro shooters, Profoto is near ubiquitous. And there is usually a reason for that.Several good reasons come to mind in favor of choosing Profoto, actually. And one pretty big reason not to -- inside.__________The Light Shaping Comp

Is That a Hand Grenade in Your Pocket, or are You Just Happy to See Me?
In between the general remarks, bad jokes, back-biting and (unmoderated) Increase-Your-Man-Size spam in the comments today was this gem of a cautionary tale from Jim Warren.It was in reference the flash overheating post from November 11th, and definitely bears noting:__________Sez Jim:Things you definitely shouldn't do with an on camera flash: I used to use a Metz 60-series flash (needed the range) back in the old days, when I used film rather than digital. One day I wasn't thinking, and when I reloaded I left the flash turn

New Chinese TTL Remotes Surfacing for Nikon and Canon
Info is sketchy at this point. But the Strobist Flickr group is pretty much at DEFCON 1, of course. On a discussion thread, Flickr user "Cotswald," who is apparently involved with the company, says:• We WILL be selling these in Europe. I won't discuss exact prices, but will say that prices will

Living the High Life in San Miguel
Last week I was in San Miguel de Allende, which sits at over 6,000 feet of elevation in the central Mexican highlands. (Town motto: Meh, oxygen is overrated…)There for a Santa Fe Workshops lighting gig with Rosi, Beth, Françoise, Sara and two Peters, we threw ourselves into a week-long intensive on small flashes, eating well and (me) mostly being out of breath. They worked their butts off, and went from lighting each other very tentatively in the beginning to working comple

Choosing Big Lights: Elinchrom
One of my main considerations when shopping for more watt-seconds was to be able to work independent of AC power. In this respect, Elinchrom gets strong consideration in the form of their two battery powered platforms, the Ranger RX and the new Ranger Quadra. A look at a very powerful battery flash, and it's baby brother, inside.________