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by Cory Rice · Posted
One of the leading trends in digital cameras over the past few years has been the development of advanced video capabilities in mirrorless and DSLR cameras. Features that could once only be found in costly cinema cameras now come standard in still cameras targeted toward hybrid photo-video content creators. Accompanying the interest in cameras able to create high-quality stills and videos has come a demand for lights that can be used for both purposes.
While on-camera flashes and strobes have long been the standard for photographers, the short
by Steven Gladstone · Posted
If you look on the B&H website under Lighting, you will notice the category Continuous lighting, which is separate from strobe or flash lighting, which is most commonly used with still photography. Continuous here refers to lighting units that are not strobe units, and these are mostly used in film and video, as well as theater. Once, this type of lighting was
by Allan Weitz · Posted
Almost every camera sold at B&H contains a light meter designed to calculate extremely accurate exposure readings, typically with a choice of Spot, Average, and Segmented metering modes. Good as they are, handheld light meters still have the upper hand when it comes to analyzing light.
For starters, the meter in your camera only reads reflected ambient light. If you’d prefer to take an incident reading, i.e., measure the light falling onto you subject rather than reflecting off your subject, you can’t do it without having to add
by Dawn Wayand · Posted
While photographers have many options for their home studio lighting setup, continuous lights are a logical solution for beginners. As its name implies, a continuous light is always on, unlike the fleeting flash of speedlights and studio strobes. For photo and video, most continuous lighting comes in the form of tungsten, fluorescent, and LED sources, as well as HMI, though we aren’t going to focus on the latter here.
LED ring light in useLeo Alejandro
Benefits of Continuous Lighting
I always recommend that beginner studio photographers
by tom kirkman · Posted
When an industry leader like Sekonic, with more than 85 meters under its belt and a winning streak reaching back to 1951 presents a new “color meter” at Photokina just after the company’s 64th birthday, the photographic world takes notice. This, of course, is the company that put the tiny, ubiquitous L-308 in everyone’s pocket, sent the L-518 Digipro X-1 into space and presented the L-758 DigitalMaster as a hardware/software “Exposure Profiling” solution. So
by tom kirkman · Posted
Starting out as LED retrofitters for major brands, partners Ken Fischer and Toby Sali joined forces to market BBS Lighting—a company whose driving force was pushing the limit of color accuracy into the Color Rendering Index stratosphere. Looking for radical methods to push the CRI envelope ultimately led
by Shawn C. Steiner · Posted
Positioned to be flagship models, the Manfrotto Spectra 1x1 LED light panels offer solid core specs and a variety of convenience features aimed at providing professional light quality for photographers and videographers, in or out of the studio.
Available in three versions, the 1x1