Reviews :: Miscellaneous



In virtually any photo studio, besides the camera and the lighting equipment, you can find a number of other photography items that are essential for either taking better pictures or making the photographer's life easier...
These days, speedlights are popular as ever, partly because, unlike studio strobes, speedlights are battery operated... In this review, we are taking a close look at Nissin PS 8 Power Pack.
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If you ever used speedlights with umbrellas or softboxes, you probably faced the challenges like trying to get even light distribution across the front of your softbox, or placing a speedlight on the axis of your umbrella... In this review, we are taking a closer look at Phottix Multi-Boom 28" Flash Bracket, which is designed to address all the issues mentioned above...
The ExpoDisc white balance filter by ExpoImaging has been one of the most trusted white balance tools among photographers for many years because of its accuracy in various lighting situations. All ExpoDiscs are made in the U.S.A. and hand calibrated. The new ExpoDisc 2.0 is an improved version of the old friend :)...
Light Blaster is a new and unique speedlight accessory that allows you to project images on surfaces for creating backgrounds for your photos and producing different kinds of special effects. To use Light Blaster, you need to have a spare lens and a spare speedlight, both of which you attach...
LPA Design, the manufacturer of PocketWizard line of products, has recently released PocketWizard PlusX — the company's first radio transceiver priced under $100. PlusX offers the PocketWizard's quality, reliability, and compatibility, but it is more affordable than any other PocketWizard radio trigger...
Imagine that you have been assigned an on-location photoshoot. You arrive and meet your client. Handshakes and smiles all round. Now, it's time to work your magic. You find your flimsy camera bag and fish out the camera body from its depths. You also find a lens in there somewhere...
If you are like me, you must think there has to be a better way to view photoson an iPad than the default iOS Photos app. Only being able to view photos as small thumbnails or fullscreen images is limiting when we want to showcase our photography to friends or clients...
PRESSlite, the manufacturer of one of the most versatile flash diffusers (see PRESSlite VerteX review), has recently released PRESSlite ECLIPSE Light Shield, a new accessory for speedlights designed to give photographers more control over the light when bouncing flash light off of walls and ceilings...
While there are quite a few solutions on the market today to mount more than one speedlight on a light stand, most of them are designed to be used with an umbrella. To find a simple setup to fire multiple hot-shoe flashes into a softbox seems to be not as simple. The recently released LumoPro LP739 Double Flash Speedring Bracket tries to fulfill...
These days, cell phones are everywhere, and they all have built-in cameras making it so easy to capture and share your life with the world... In this review, we are taking a closer look at the new iPhone 5 camera...
We've been using Nasty Clamps for over a year now, and we found them very useful for positioning of speedlights both on location and in studio. This time around, we review two new Nasty products: Nasty Flag and Double-Headed Nasty Clamp...