Studio Lighting Tips, Techniques, Tutorials and Equipment Information
Here’s a rebate promo from Photoflex that offers a free fill light when you buy either the strobe or continuous light kit. The strobe StarFlash 1000W Mercury 5-foot OctoDome kit with bag comes with a free 300W StarFlash monoblock ($424 value), while the continuous lighting StarLite Medium Kit comes with a free StarLite QL head …
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The Alleghenies is a picturesque region in Pennsylvania, home to the best fishing streams in the East, countless miles of hiking trails, rushing whitewater rivers and peaceful lakes. It’s also a place of quiet towns, picturesque covered bridges, and historic sites dating back to the time when these lands were the final frontier of America. …
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What do you do when a big hurricane barrels through your neighborhood? Or when two vehicles collide in front of you? Or you happen to be near the Dalai Lama, or Angelina Jolie? You take pictures, of course. You’re in an extraordinary situation and Reuters calls them newsworthy events. When these events happen in your …
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USA Today has launched the Demystifying Digital website, taking off from their newspaper supplement with the same title. The website is designed as an easy-to-use destination for those individuals looking to learn and make sense of today’s technology. Its editorial mission, according to its creators, is to talk about the latest digital technology in an …
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The Vienna gallery and auction house WestLilcht has auctioned off the world’s oldest commercially produced Daguerreotype camera. Built in 1839, the Daguerreotype by Susse Freres of France fetched $792,333 making it the world’s most expensive camera. Bidders from around the world vied for the antique camera which was offered at a starting price of $134,610. …
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Single-lens reflex photography is definitely back, with an even greater number of hobbyists this time around. This is because of the ever-increasing affordability of today’s digital SLR cameras. More and more people are getting their hands on DSLRs since the camera industry’s push to make sub-$1000 kits. DSLRs is one hot segment today in the …
Why would Kodak want to leave the low end of the camera business? “As everyone knows, we’re not making much money there,†quipped Kodak CEO Antonio Perez at last week’s JPMorgan Technology Conference in Boston. They’d be concentrating instead on making cameras with their own CMOS sensor which Kodak has been developing with IBM. They …
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Super Talent Technology has unveiled a new line of extreme performance 1333MHz and 1066MHz memory modules. The JEDEC compliant 1GB modules and 2GB kits are designed specifically for the new Intel P35 “Bearlake†platform, and have already been validated on multiple P35 motherboards. The company says the modules are clad in Super Talent’s custom black …
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Yeah, why not? Buy the DSLR for the wife and the husband gets the Coolpix compact camera, neat. Nikon is offering a rebate for customers who buy one DSLR camera and one Coolpix compact from the Nikon line-up. The Coolpix P-Series and the S-Series will give you a $50 rebate while the L-Series entitles you …
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Samsung has released Firmware 1.20, updating the firmware for the GX10 digital SLR camera. The update adds built-in flash function to the camera in wireless mode. It also adds a function for switching the AV/TV settings between the front and rear e-dials, and a function that sets the strobe light compensation to its default value, …
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