Recent content by Kurt.Paris

Thanksfor the responses :) the people i know with Eli's have Rangers and Style (i think RX but i'm not sure) ETA: Wa-heyy my signature seems to have joined us :) Re Profoto - they are my system of choice. Price unfortunately is an issue, combined with the fact that noone sells them locally -...

so far the only people i know who have elinchrom (not a large sample size to be fair) have complained that they had reliability issues :( - thats why i was questioning I've seen some but have never worked with them before - i've only tried profoto (<3), bowens (which i also liked) and old...

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Done :)

Anyone here use elinchrom on a day-to-day basis? reliable?

Mainly posed portraiture (ez poker player throwing chips, dancer jumping etc - if you take a look at my website you'll get a better idea :))

I had already ruled out elinchrom and profoto - Profoto is not in my budget i'm afraid and i question elinchrom reliability Re needing short flash durations - unfortunately it is something that i am pretty certain i need :)

Heya folks, i've decided to invest in a new set of studio/outdoor lights and have narrowed the choice down to two sets of lights - either Bowens Gemini (pro or normal depending on the price i find) or Paul C buff's einstein I do mainly portraiture, however my biggest complaint with my...

is the sale planned for editorial use? in that case i think you're fine, altough otherwise i imagine you would need to get permission

we have roads? :P

I would not buy a 70-200 or longer lens without IS. Remember that IS will stabilise the viewfinder as well as the image. I find it more comfortable when tracking.

not a birding man myself so am not going to argue there :) Wrt to noise, i view a lot of images from various cams at 100% and comparing the 7D/60/600 to older canons, or nikons there is more noise - wont show in a print but at 100% its noticable. Also as soon as the exposure is incorrect...

i'm guessing that by varying ISO we'd be varying the amplification portion right?

indeed- i'm just asking if his objection was to my definition of fill or technique. i imagine there are a number of intermediate steps between sensor and memory card - ultimately there could be a process where the low energy signal is interpreted and converted into whatever the memory card...

i'm going to respectfully disagree. wrt the end result, 'fill' on axis isnt a must "if you want a shot to be well lit. There are plenty of cases where on axis fill will create shadows (ez if the model is smoking a pipe, has long hair in front of her face etc) so split lighting fill or whatever...