I've been receiving more and more emails asking for information about the softbox I use with the speedlites. Several brands offer this package, I opted for the Chimera set as it was complete and had a larger box than the other brand at the tim ...

I got myself a universal off camera shoe cord at Calumet that should be compatible with ALL the speedlites. It's a handy tool for shooting off-camera, and a nice balancing effort while holding a 1ds mk II with a 24/70 in the other hand. ETTL s ...

The new flash gun from Nissin, the Di866 Professional Speedlite, is now available to UK photographers, as first announced by Kenro at Focus on Imaging earlier this year. The Di866 is available with either a Canon or Nikon fitting. The Cano ...

Let’s establish a few ground rules for what we are going to be doing. First, this isn’t an ETTL, CLS, or any other kind of electronic exposure control in the flash unit. We are talking about manual settings. Manual is where the power is. ...

On-camera single light. Wired Off-camera single light. Wireless Off-camera single light. Hotshoe FILL + Wireless KEY light. Wired FILL + Wireless KEY light. Hotshoe FILL + Wireless KEY light + Wireless BACKGROUND light. ...

Camera Raw 4.6 and the DNG Converter 4.6 has been posted to Adobe.com for Mac and Windows. This will be the last Camera Raw update for CS3 customers and it includes support for raw formats from the following 15 camera models: Canon 1000D ...

If you have ever shopped for a flash or read a review, you may have noticed a section of the spec called the guide number or GN. While this value is a measurement of power that the flash has and allows you to compare flash models, is this num ...

I've done comparison testing with all 18 of the possible ambient / fill metering combinations on my Canon 20D and having been shooting seriously since the late 1960s using every meter type and method there is including Sunny 16. Regardless o ...

While Nikon takes great measures to assure high quality in its imaging products, it has come to our attention that an electronic component related to power control in some Nikon D5000 digital SLR cameras does not meet factory specifications a ...

Canon 1ds mark II camera - 24-70 L lens @ 57 mm 1/160 sec shutter speed - f / 5.6 aperture - ISO 200 Shooting photos on the beach with a slave 580ex flash , triggered by master 550ex flash. ETTL + 1 1/3 - Flash Exposure Lock on f ...

The 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM is the first large-aperture 50mm prime lens to be manufactured by Sigma and the company has gone to considerable lengths to include the latest designs and technology. Unlike the 50mm f/1.4 primes from other manufactur ...

Firmware Update Version 1.0.7 improves and mitigates the following two types of image quality phenomena that occur under certain shooting conditions. "Black dot" phenomenon (the right side of point light sources become black) V ...

Here are some photos taken with hot-shoe speedlite flashes with compensated ETTL and using Flash Exposure Lock. No diffusers, cealing bouncing or flash modifiers, just plain hard direct light ...

The presets are available in two versions, one with auto toning and the other one without. I just show you a preview of the set without the Auto toning, but of course both versions are included in the zipfile you download. The Zip fil ...

By now, most of you have read many times as I have walked through the process of balancing my flashes and ambient. I want to get past that. Today, I want to accomplish two things: 1. To set you up with a way of quickly understanding and ...