Tag Archives: flash

SB-910 Speedlight announced, is a SB-900 refined

Nikon have announced a replacement for 2008′s top end speedlight in the new SB-910.

Main changes for the SB-910 include “hard” colour filters rather than the flimsy gels of its predecessor, and a “refined user interface”. It is as yet unclear exactly how the UI differs, aside from the addition of a new Menu button. [...]

Quick review: the Frio universal hotshoe mount

Do you use speedlights?  Then you might be interested in this new little gadget that has been kindly provided to me by Snapper Stuff in the UK.

Invented by the same guy from Enlight Photo who created the Orbis ring flash speedlight attachment, the frio (no capital letters here, thank you) is described as the “world’s first [...]

Pocket Wizard MiniTT1 and FlexTT5 now available

Rob Galbraith is reporting that finally, approaching two years after the Canon-compatible units made their debut, the Nikon-compatible versions of Pocket Wizard’s MiniTT1 and FlexTT5 are shipping in select locales.
The MiniTT1 and FlexTT5 are RF remote triggers for speedlites such as the SB-900 and new SB-700, unique in that they offer full i-TTL control [...]

Discover the History of Nikon

In one of these promotional moves that I’ve never quite understood, Nikon have published a flash “game” based around the history of the company.  Complete various “missions” and you can “win” wallpapers and a screensaver. New facts come to light from our long history. These true stories [...]

Nikon Novelty: Universcale

This is fairly old news now, but I missed it, and it’s kind of neat. We are able to view all entities, from the microworld to the universe, from a single perspective. By setting them up against a scale, we are able to compare and understand things which cannot be physically [...]