Contrivance Lab reader and serial flasher David Pastime has comely much made blaze photography chilly again with his superb Strobist blog. The difficulty is, this favor has driven up the prices of elderly, handbook command speedlights to the dot where its not a inexpensive, erm, pastime anymore.
David has a relationship with Moishe, the possessor of the Midwest Photo Trade in Columbus, Ohio, sending abundance of customers his route. In come, Moishe has really developed a Strobist flashgun. It’s inexpensive, hard and nearly open-source in its expandability. Most importantly, it has handbook controls.
The LumoPro LP120 looks a collection like the Nikon Speedlight I wrote round in August of hindmost year. It has filled handbook power command, from filled 1/1 down to 1/32, a lean and pivot skull (270º pivot, 180º lean and a three posture handbook zoom (28mm, 50mm and 85mm). The strobe runs on four AA cells and has a lead numeral of 80.
But the superlative piece is the connectivity. There are four (4!) ways to trigger the blaze. A hotshoe mount, a criterion PC connector socket, a 1/8 mini-jack and an optical lackey (which triggers the strobe when it sees another blaze. According to David, this mould works extremely admirably indoors.
The charge for this low-fi bit of apparatus is $130. And call to mind — this is handbook. There is no auto way: you’ll possess to do it all yourself.
Result leaf [MPEX via Strobist]
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