Flash (gear)

Profoto’s new A10 speedlight is basically just an A1X with Bluetooth

Sep 23, 2020 John Aldred

Profoto has now officially updated its “World’s Smallest Studio Light” (speedlight) from the A1X to the new Profoto A10. It’s essentially the same speedlight as…

Profoto to announce a new A10 speedlight next week?

Sep 17, 2020 John Aldred

According to a report on Lighting Rumours, Profoto might be getting ready to announce a new A10 speedlight next week. It’s possibly a replacement model…

Profoto AirX lets you shoot your iPhone with the Profoto B10 at up to 1/25,000 of a second

Jul 8, 2020 John Aldred

Profoto has today announced AirX, a new update for the Profoto App which lets your iPhone communicate with the Profoto B10 series strobes. It synchronizes…

Profoto’s $1,095 A1X Speedlight is now available for Fuji

Dec 6, 2019 John Aldred

Profoto calls it “The world’s smallest studio light”. Most of the rest of us just call it the $1,100 speedlight. Yes, that’s right, we’re talking…

We’re not saying the Westcott FJ400 and Jinbei HD-400 are the same strobe, but they sure look similar

Sep 30, 2019 John Aldred

I’ve seen a few posts recently about Westcott’s new FJ400 strobe, with a couple of sites labeling it the “best value strobe” on the market. We…

Westcott announces FJ400, portable but powerful strobe and FJ-X2m, universal wireless trigger

Sep 26, 2019 Dunja Djudjic

Westcott has just announced a new strobe and an accompanying wireless trigger. The Westcott FJ400 is a portable 400Ws AC/DC strobe with less than 1…

Yongnuo finally starts to unify their flash systems with the new YN560-TX Pro

Jul 31, 2019 John Aldred

A couple of years ago, I made a post about why I could no longer recommend Yongnuo to flash newcomers over Godox. In short, their systems…

If you can’t beat ’em, copy ’em – Yongnuo announces YN200 portable strobe

Jul 4, 2019 John Aldred

Yongnuo has just announced their new YN200 “Speedlite”. Following their tradition of making products that are highly “inspired” by other products made by other companies,…

Profoto’s new B10 Plus doubles the power of the B10 to 500Ws with a 25% price increase

Jun 5, 2019 John Aldred

Profoto has announced the new B10 Plus strobe, doubling the power of the B10 from 250Ws to 500Ws. It’s a little longer than the B10,…

Profoto just announced the A1X – A shrunken A1 with an inflated price

May 15, 2019 Dunja Djudjic

Building on the success and popularity of the A1, Profoto has just launched the A1X. It’s an improved and more powerful version of “the world’s…