Review

Last week I stopped at Taqueria Ruiz for lunch after run­ning some morn­ing errands. I ordered a taco revuelta with a mix­ture of pork pre­pared 3 ways: chichar­róns (pork rinds), […]

The Lumiquest SoftBox III is a small, highly portable soft­box that attaches eas­ily to var­i­ous speed­lights. Deployment it greatly enhanced by the use of an optional speed­strap. It’s ideal for close por­traits where you need a soft but con­trolled light, espe­cially if you can place the light near the sub­ject. Its size lim­its its use­ful­ness on-cam­era, espe­cially on a rangefinder.

To launch our new col­lab­o­ra­tion with direc­tor Mike Walsh Mercury Photo Bureau was the lat­est guest on his Rev Hi-Fi video series.

The Arca-Swiss Monoball P0 Tripod Head, retail­ing for $299 USD, fea­tures a kno­b­less tri­pod head with a three-ele­ment geared lock­ing sys­tem. To tilt, rotate the knurled band counter-clock­wise, as seen from above, about a quar­ter turn: the more you loosen it, the less resis­tance the gears pro­vide, allow­ing a tilt range of about 30° from horizontal […]