Enlight Photo, the people behind the popular Orbis ring flash and Frio coldshoes, have been thinking outside the box again with their latest release, the Phlite lampshade for cameras and tripods. You really don’t need an excuse to display a classic camera, but putting some beautifully engineered tripods and stands on display takes a little [...]

If you haven’t seen the Pixelstick LED light painting wand on Kickstarter yet, this thing is simply incredible. And there’s just a few days left to grab one at a reduced price, and before they will be available in any retail launch.   LED light painting is nothing new, and as impressive as the effects [...]

The recently announced YongNuo YN-E3-RT radio transmitter for Canon are now available for around $150. The YN-E3-RT, and coming YN-600EX-RT flash unit, are the first and only third party radio trigger and flash units to be directly compatible with Canon’s own 600EX-RT and ST-E3-RT radio enabled flash and transmitter. The YN-E3-RT transmitter includes all the features of the Canon [...]

First up, Phottix have 15% off everything in the store from the 29th to 30th November. Enter the code BF15 at check-out and save 15% on purchases. So its a great chance to save a few dollars on the new Mitros+. But if you haven’t picked up a Mulit Boom yet, at $59.50 I think [...]

Australian based IC12 have posted an update on the development of their revolutionary LED Light Cube which was successfully crowdfunded in September, and now due to ship early 2014. The Light Cube is an LED based light used for both video and flash photography. The significant advantage of using the LED for flash use is [...]

The First TTL capable triggers from Chinese manufacturer NiceFoto are now available, and from just $59.99 a pair. NiceFoto were one of the first manufacturers with a completely wireless Lithium-Ion powered monolight, in the N-Flash series, first releases a few years ago now. And they are one of the major manufactures in the Chinese lighting [...]

A lot of people have been champing at the bit to hear what the new Godox V850 Lithium-Ion powered flash is like, so I’m posting a quick hands on preview. In short this flash is brilliant! It’s definitely the real deal.   Previous Godox speedlights have been made to very low prices, and generally around [...]

Phottix products are now available from B&H Photo and the new flagship Mitros+ flash is now in stock! Amazon and Adorama also have the Mitros+ for Canon available now as well.   The Mitros+ combines both Phottix Odin and Phottix Strato II radio transceivers inside, for full wireless control of flashes off camera, in ETTL and manual. [...]

CheetahStand have released a new 2.75M long straight power cord, as well as a new Cheetah Mushroom diffuser dome, for the popular bare bulb Cheetah Lights. 2.75 Meter Straight Power Cord – The new 2.75m straight power cord is an accessory many people have been asking for, and really the final missing piece to the puzzle [...]

Jinbei have released the MF-200 Speedlite, a redesigned and more powerful version of the current MF-100 Speedlite, this time with a HSS function. Godox and Cheetah may have some competition on their hands, as the MF-200 is clearly aimed directly at the current AD/CL180 Witstro/Cheetah 150Ws units. The current MF-100 has a guide number of [...]

The recently released Profoto B1 portable flash is certainly getting a lot of attention, but what may be the most revolutionary feature to this flash appears to have gone mostly unadvertised and unnoticed. The new Profoto B1 is a self contained, lithium-ion battery powered 500Ws monolight, with the option of TTL when using the Air Remote TTL [...]

Antonio Lao marketing specialist from Gadget Infinity has informed us they are one of the first to have the recently released Godox V850 Lithium-Ion powered speedlight in stock and ready to ship now! And for just $119.95 plus shipping (aprox $139 total). That’s without radio triggers, but still less than I would have expected for a [...]

Profoto have released the new B1 500 Air TTL, a 500Ws cordless Lithium battery powered strobe, with built in wireless TTL! The B1 is a completely wireless flash with built-in Lithium-Ion battery pack, and 2.4GHz TTL (and Remote Manual) Radio receiver. Profoto are one of the first to embrace a serious “Off Camera Flash” design, and [...]

Looking for a stand alone AF Assist Light to use by itself, or with other radio triggers that don’t have one?  Well YongNuo already have one available of sorts in the YN-622 – The inexpensive YN-622 are now fairly legendary, highly capable, TTL wireless radio triggers. But for less than $50 per unit, you can [...]

The recently announced YongNuo YN-E3-RT are not even shipping yet, and already they have had a major feature update, with new firmware now allowing full (Gr) Group Mode functionality with pre 2012 model cameras! This is a major advantage to the many Canon 5D II, 7D etc owners who otherwise have only limited functionality with [...]

YongNuo have released details of the soon to be available flagship YN-E3-RT Speedlight Transmitter, which will be directly compatible with the Canon 600EX-RT flash unit and ST-E3-RT transmitter. The new YN-E3-RT transmitter will provide practically all the features of the original Canon ST-E3-RT, plus a number of important extra features. These include a built in AF [...]

The Phottix Strato TTL trigger, first announced at Photokina last year, will start shipping this month. Phottix Strato TTL are a simple, single group TTL trigger. They allow fast FEC adjustment from the transmitter’s built on LCD interface, HSS to 1/8000th, and Second Curtain Sync. The Strato TTL feature high build quality, and a low profile on the [...]

Move over PocketWizard, YongNuo are set to bring adjustable SuperSync timing to the masses. Russian blog YN622.RU first picked this up, and I have now confirmed it with YongNuo. The coming YN-622-TX for Canon and Nikon, will have a manual timing adjustment added to the current SuperSync feature. SuperSync (SS) allows high camera shutter speeds up to [...]