My blog, although I don’t see myself as a blogger but as a Photographer I will try to blog some interesting material during the weeks.
Expect at least 2 updates a week.
As many requested here a small video from the iPhone app, there also is a iPad version.
You can do everything with the quadra what you want including modeling lights etc.
Also a quick look at the gossen light meter with Elinchrom support, and it has a reflective meter. I will look more into this later.
Feel free to share, I can’t from here, I’m already glad this goes through.
Today it was day 2 at Photokina.
Today it was a LOT busier and so also my demos attracted a lot more attention, we often had the whole booth cramped with people watching. My main theme for todays workshops was controlling contrast and light, and with a few surprises of course.
Today it was the time for the first day of Photokina. For me Photokina is something amazing, it’s huge, everyone is there and you get all the news and the new introductions in one place. It’s buzzing with activity, contacts, great photographers and lots and lots of toys….(that’s why I take my wife with me :D).
This Photokina we had Leaf with the 80MP AptusII-12 which I already mentioned, but also Elinchrom had some nice new additions. As you can see in the backstage video at the end of this post you can see the one that really got my attention, the focussing flash tube in the new Ranger heads. It’s gives you some nice new possibilities to really shape your light just that bit further. There will also be some new heads for the powerpacks by the way and some smaller things, the 1.50mtr indirect octa (high on my wish list) is also here and will probably be available in the coming months.
Today I also did some shots with the Phase one vertical grip with build in Profoto Air trigger, to be honest I will probably never use the trigger because I’m using the Elinchrom skyports, but the grip itself will be added to my camera very soon. It makes the camera a lot better ergonomically plus it balances more nicely, it runs on the Leaf accus AND normal batteries and you can switch so when your accupack dies you can switch to the AA batteries and keep on shooting, but maybe most importantly with the grip you can now do the firmware upgrades yourself.
Today we arrived in Koln for the Photokina.
I will be at the Profot booth for the next three days doing some demos and mini workshops for Elinchrom and Leaf, so feel free to drop by and say hi. Being there the pre-opening day is always a weird experience, everything is still in the buildup stages and what looks so nice the following days is now just rubbish and piles of cardboard and paper etc. knowing that just in a few hours everything will be done and neat and nice is just almost like a miracle.
Leaf already had some great news, they are releasing the AptusII 12, a full frame 80MP digital back, yes you read that correctly full frame 80MP’s wow that’s a lot of detail, I think you can see the DNA of the model with a close up, would love to play around with that one 🙂
Here is some information on this great new digital back from Leaf…..http://www.leaf-photography.com/products_aptus212.asp
And some new lenses from Schneider http://www.captureintegration.com/2010/09/19/three-other-new-schneider-lenses/
But there will be much more of course, also from Elinchrom………… I think 😀
Looking forward to meeting up with Joe McNally and see his presentation, but there is so much more going on, I always say when vikings die they go to the walhalla, when photographers die they will probably go the Photokina…. but seeing the size of the photokina you could die if you have to see everything in one day, pffff it’s HUGE. glad we have some parking spaces next to our hall so we don’t have to rush in the morning.
