With just a couple of days remaining on the clock, the Kickstarter for the BounceLite is in a race against time to successfully fund an innovative accessory designed to help you easily modify your flash for better shooting results. With 4 days to go, the project still needs to raise more t

One of the most readily available black-and-white films on the market is no more. Kodak has announced that it will no longer be producing the easy to find, easier to get get processed, Professional BW400CN 35mm film. In a statement on its website, Kodak said: You won’t find huge

Big umbrellas can be fantastic to work with. They cover wide areas for group shots and they produce a nice, soft light that’s almost always flattering. You don’t always need six-feet of parabolic umbrella, however, and Profoto’s new line of Small and Medium Deep Umbrellas

The special edition Impossible Project 600 Hard Color film stock we announced last summer is now available for SX-70 cameras. This morning Impossible Project released B&W SX-70 Hard Color, which comes in a pack of eight exposures and frames black and white images with a red, pink, yel

A few months ago Lomography released Cine200, a new tungsten film balance for indoor shooting that offered the visual benefits of cinema film and the rolls sold out super fast. If you missed out on the first batch of Lomography’s Cine film, here is your chance to snag some more. Toda

LomoChrome Turquoise On the heels of the wildly popular LomoChrome Purple, Lomography has announced a new color shifting flavor of film. LomoChrome Turquoise XR 100-400 pushes the lighter portions of photos into shades of emerald and turquoise and chan

Profoto has been rolling out quite a few options in their RFi soft box line lately and the most recent addition is a 4-foot octabox meant to fill the gap between the three-foot and the five-foot models. Like the rest of the RFi soft boxes, they use color-coded rods and designated speed ri

There are all kinds of ways to remotely trigger a flash, inclusing radio frequency, optical sensors, and even a plain old long cord. You can even control flash power remotely with things like the Pocket Wizard Flex system. Changing the direction of your flash from afar, however, is trickie

A new product from Vela Labs wants to make it easier for high-speed photographers to capture extremely fast moving objects—think bullets ripping through melons and playing cards. The Vela One, currently raising funds on Kickstarter, bills itself as the world’s fastest and most afford

The original Foldio pop-up product photography studio was a smash hit on Kickstarter. It went way past its originally funding goals and now it’s back with a bigger, brighter version in the Foldio2. The concept is still very simple. The box is made of translucent white material that

Reflectors are an awesome piece of photo gear because they’re relatively cheap, very versatile, and can be used by everyone from beginners to high-end pros. Westcott’s new Omega Reflector has a little window directly in the center of it so you can shoot through and reflect ligh

While smartphone cameras have seriously attacked the prevalence of compact cameras here at CES, the number of smartphone camera accessories is seriously on the rise. Lenovo now has a tiny flash specifically for taking selfies called the Vibe Xtension. For $30, you get a tiny circular arra

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show had plenty of gear that we first heard about on Kickstarter, but one of the coolest things we saw on the showroom floor was the Lume Cube, which was succesfully funded a few weeks before the show. The Lume Cube is a tiny powerful LED light that c

The B1 off-camera flash was a big step for Profoto. It had built-in TTL, but even more importantly, it was completely mobile thanks to the integrated battery system. Now ,they’re upgrading their mobile lighting solution with the B2 off-camera flash system. Unlike the B1, the B2 syst

For quite some time, the Elinchrom Ranger kit has been a very popular option for photographers looking for more powerful lights when shooting on location. Now, they have a new portable light kit called the ELB 400, which puts out a total of 424 watts from a single pack to a pair of heads.

It’s easy to get sentimental about analog camera gear. Many photographers have a stash of old cameras packed away in bags, displayed on shelves or lurking in the tops of closets that they couldn’t bear to part ways with, even if it has been ages since they’ve shot something with the gear.

In terms of volume, instant photography is still an extremely niche space, but you don’t have to be a Polaroid junkie to appreciate the hard work that Impossible is doing on those little square photos we all love so much. Their latest film stock, B&W 600 Generation 2.0, is their

About a decade ago, I wanted to shoot A in the park using studio strobes. My school’s photography department didn’t have a fancy strobe pack with a built-in battery, so I headed out with a 2400-watt pack and a borrowed gas-powered generator. It was loud and expensive to run,

Adaptalux Good light is crucial for all styles of photography, but when you are focused on photographing details that are easily missed by the naked eye, but captured through the magic of macro photography it becomes even more crucial. Adaptalux, which

[UPDATE: As of April 19th, Photoflex put up another notice on their website saying that they’re “back in business.” You can read more about it here.] I have an old Photoflex umbrella that has been part of my kit for more than a decade. Many other photographers I know hav