Category: Portable Strobes

This battery powered strobe lets you shoot up to 1/8000th of a second without losing power

John Aldred

For those who use flash on location, the biggest issue you’ll usually face is power. More specifically, a lack of power. Speedlights start to drop rapidly once you go into high speed sync and big inverters are a pain to carry. Great advances have been made in the last few years by the likes of […]

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Video showing the power of High Speed Sync in a bright environment

Udi Tirosh

We have probably already established that just one soft light can make a huge difference in how a picture looks, but many times it is too bright to use a strobe. If you want to get a correct exposure with a wide aperture, you need a very fast shutter speeds. Sadly most systems don’t like […]

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This short video shows how one soft light can make a huge difference in final result

Udi Tirosh

There is a lot of power you can master once you go from available light to even using one strobe. Photographer Manuel Ortiz demonstrates it in this short video where he compares two shots right out of camera (of course the photos can be later enhanced, but for the sake of this experiment, it is better […]

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Broncolor cuts the cord with the new Lithium Ion powered Siros L portable monolights

John Aldred

Broncolor have today announced the Siros 800 L and 400 L, Lithium Ion powered flash units, expanding the Siros family of flash units to let you more easily take them outside of the studio. Available in both 400Ws and 800Ws flavours, the Broncolor Siros L features Broncolor’s ECTC technology, to help ensure consistent colour temperature […]

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