Recent content by nigelbb

Bessel do various wall/ceiling mounted bracket kits for up to six rolls. I just purchased a four roll kit with plastic chains for £64.99. It looks decent quality but I haven't had the chance to fix it up yet as on re-measuring I discovered that the wooden dams in the ceiling are actually further...

Bessel do nice strip boxes with a grid in Elinchrom fitting. Goof prices too. Their larges 200cmx40cm is only £79.99. http://www.bessel.co.uk/acatalog/Standard-Softboxes-1.html

This is true for Canon. However the extra twist for Nikon is that YN565 II does not work with the D800 or I believe do HSS with any camera. the YN568 II does work with the D800/800e/810 & do HSS but costs about 50% more than the YN565 II.

The no longer available Calumet Genesis 300B that I mentioned in another thread works brilliantly with the Yongnuo triggers for Hypersync/tail-sync with the Canon 5D3. Three of these would have been an excellent low cost option compared to the Elinchrom or Lencarta heads.

My wife has decided she wants to do more portrait & studio work. We own a Calumet Genesis 300B studio flash with a battery unit that we use for location work & have been really impressed with the build quality & performance. I thought that it would be easy to just purchase another one or two of...

Great! I was already a great fan of these triggers in their Canon version & they cost a fraction of the price of the Lencarta triggers.

Garry, thanks for the prompt reply. Do you have a model number for the Yongnuo triggers? Yongnuo seem to have a number of different triggers & flashes available.

Whatever happened to these magic triggers? My wife has just moved to a Nikon D800 & I recalled how these triggers were lauded at launch but when I look on the Lencarta website they are nowhere to be found. Were the claims false or are they now selling a cheaper alternative that also works the...

Are you actually a professional video editor or someone who knows bugger all about it & is just regurgitating Internet forum twaddle? FCP X is a perfectly decent professional editing platform especially with the new 10.1 version that shipped this week. Recommending FCP7 to a newcomer is stupid...

Zebras. Also many many improvements to the UI like a big red cross on the screen which is removed when you are actually recording so that you don't just sit there staring at the screen thinking that you are recording when you are not (we have all done it by pressing the record button twice:)...

There is probably mileage in a combined approach of using a simple stabiliser like a Glidecam combined with a 2-axis brushless gimbal from a R/C helicopter. Here are a couple of links that I found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK8mzlEXFIY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xwSoMsK9GI The Tarot...

Yes. It is actually the edge on view across our galaxy from the inside that we call the Milky Way.

The OP said & then went on to talk about RAID. My point was that if he needs to have all the RAW files online then a RAID solution could be good but if he wants a backup & archive solution then it's much cheaper to use USB3 external disks. Paradoxically 3/4TB external disks are often cheaper...

RAID is not Backup it's a technology that protects against hard disk failure &/or increases performance over that of a single disk. If you need all your RAW files online all the time RAID can be convenient so even if a disk fails you don't have to rummage around to restore your backup but can...

There are doubtless web designer forums where they all bitch about the Uncle Bobs who think that just because they have a computer that they can design a website.