Gear Archives

How to fire your strobes 3 different ways and when to use each one

Sep 13, 2017 John Aldred

All the time, I see new flash and strobe owners ask “How do I fire these things?, which isn’t an unreasonable question. For speedlights, it’s…

Sony’s new RX10 IV shoots 20.1MP stills at 24 frames per second

Sep 13, 2017 John Aldred

The Sony A7III announcement that some were expecting yesterday never happened. Perhaps Sony simply didn’t want to compete with Apple’s new iPhone releases. Regardless, Sony did…

Profoto teams up with Fujifilm to bring TTL & HSS to Fuji cameras

Sep 11, 2017 John Aldred

Well, they may have been lagging a little behind Godox and Cactus, but Profoto have finally caught up. Profoto have announced a new Fuji compatible…

Leaked Godox XPro trigger photo teases a huge LCD interface and lots of buttons

Sep 11, 2017 John Aldred

Godox’s flash system has become extremely popular over the last couple of years. And while it now supports half a dozen different platforms one common…

The macro lens is the Swiss Army knife of lenses, and this is why you should own one

Sep 11, 2017 John Aldred

Macro lenses are often seen as this weird special purpose thing, that only those interested in shooting bugs should buy. But they’re so much more…

Does the Rotolight Neo 2 live up to the hype? This photographer doesn’t think so

Sep 8, 2017 John Aldred

I wrote about the announcement of the new Rotolight Neo 2 a couple of days ago. Looking at the specs, I wasn’t really all that…

Photonicz is a Strobe/LED hybrid that can take a splash and keep working

Sep 4, 2017 John Aldred

So, this is an interesting, if rather unusual idea. Photonicz is an LED based strobe (a world’s first, apparently) designed to offer the advantages of…