Elinchrom Skyport Universal Set

Hey guys!, totaly forgot to publish this post so I’m doing it now
I extended my equpment with the Elinchrom EL-Skyport (the image you see above) two weeks ago, I looked at the PocketWizard stuff aswell but decided to stick with the EL-Skyport due to the much lower price tag compared to the PocketWizard.
These babies have a range up to 150m outside according to the Elinchrome and indoors you will also have a very good range too (yeah, yeah, I know I forgot the number to the last one ).
Put up a Nikon SB-28 strobe (old good stuff) together with a bedsheet to diffuce the light and took some “quick and dirty” pictures to see how the system preformed. It worked like a charm and the biggest plus is the size!
Just one tip before you buy this set is to buy a 3,5mm to 2,5mm converter, for some strange reason Elinchrom didn’t include one in the set.

No Nikon D700 replacement in 2010?

Went over to Nikonrumors.com recently and saw a post which made me not so happy. The topic read: “No Nikon D700 replacement in 2010? I don’t think so”. It has almost been 2 years now since Nikon released the D700 on the market and as we all know technology have the habit to develop in the speed of light (or almost at the speed of light ) but in Nikons case it sees like they’ve hit the breaks.
Canon keeps pushing new DSLR houses to the market and almost everyone have support for at least 720p video recording. Ok, you might think “How on the earth would I need video recording when I’m specifically buying a DSLR to shoot pictures and not video, I could just buy a regular HD camcorder if I wanted to shoot video”. But here is the deal with video recording on DSLR:s, recently I put up a post talking about a company called Zacuto who recently did the first webisode out of three about the question “Is Digital Equally Good as Film?“. They compared Nikon 3Ds, Canon DSLR:s and film cameras and frankly the DSLR:s video quality isn’t far away from film.
So when I buy a DSLR with video capability I rather see it as a bonus feature that will come handy a beautiful day.

Anyway back to the topic, this source who mentioned this to nikonrumors is a person who works very closely with nikon and the staff at nikonrumors have heard similar rumors before – maybe it’s true – maybe not. One thing is for sure that the time will tell and that is probably the best reliable source ever!

Cheers and have a great weekend!