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We’ve made it another weekend, which means another edition of our accessory roundup. Today, we’ll be looking at some lights, some Leica gear, and some rugged accessories, but first, as always, let’s see what’s on sale.
Sony Sales
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sony a7rvThe camera, with a massive 61MP sensor that makes it great for landscape or product photography, is currently on sale for $400 off MSRP.
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If you don’t need that much resolution, A7 IV Also on sale for $300 off MSRP. This is an older model that doesn’t include some of Sony’s latest technology and improvements, but it’s still a capable still camera.
rugged travel backpacks
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Pelican is known for its ultra-rugged hard cases, but the company has recently started making soft accessories as well. The Travel Aegis collection includes a variety of bags, including backpacks, slings, duffel bags and rolling bags; Some of them feature “hybrid” construction, which Pelican says “provides the quality construction and protection of a hard case with the versatility of a soft case.”
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Aegis Rolling Duffel
Hybrid packs come in a variety of shapes and sizes, so you have options no matter how light or heavy you pack. If you want a little more protection, the company has also introduced a new line of hard-sided luggage cases, which it calls the Trvl ATX. They don’t feel as heavy as the company’s Classic Air cases, but they have comfortable features like a 360-degree spinner wheel, compression straps, and dividing pockets.
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The ATX series sits between the Aegis Hybrid bags and standard Pelican Air cases when it comes to durability. Image: Pelican |
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The company has also introduced a Variety of accessories “Modpack” Which lets you add organization to your Trvl bag in the form of toiletry bags, extra pouches and packing cubes.
Lika’s birthday
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$625, limited edition teddy bear It appears to be sold out, but there is plenty of Leica 100 gear available. Image: Laika |
Leica is celebrating its 100th year of business this year, and is selling a portion of the “Leica 100 Years” program variety of products To mark the occasion. Perhaps most notable are the teddy bears – there were two limited-edition models that have already sold out, designed to look like important members of the Leitz family, as well as a more standard bear Holding a plush Laika.
Bear, as well as many other Leica 100 products such as leather bracelet, rythm“100”-decorated hotshoe cover and even cufflinksWill not be available until May. However, there are a few knickknacks currently listed for sale in Leica’s online store: A set of colored pencils It comes with a cut-out paper M camera that you can color as you wish, a pinand a 3d wooden puzzleThe latter two are sold out but are not listed as limited edition, so there will likely be restocks.
a colorful spotlight
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Nanlight’s new COB light serves as an upgrade to its bi-color FC-120B spotlight. FC-120C It has many of the same features, like the ability to accept USB-C power, Bluetooth app controls, and dimming, but it swaps out the LEDs for LEDs capable of casting full RGB colors.
While it does come with a brightness penalty – the bi-color version can put out 17,450 lux when paired with the included 45-degree reflector, while the RGB version can only do 12,850 lux – it clearly gives you more options when it comes to That’s what color you want to illuminate a scene.
The FC-120C uses a proprietary FM mount for the light modifier but comes with an adapter that lets you use accessories made for the industry-standard Bowens mount.
super-fast, super-bumpy
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LaCie, a Seagate-owned brand known for its rugged portable drives, has issued A new rubber-coated SSD that’s meant to withstand drops, dust, water, and even “the pressure of a 2-ton vehicle,” according to the company. Appropriately named the Rugged SSD Pro5, it has an IP68 rating and comes in 2 and 4TB variants.
Although the Pro5 is undeniably tough, it doesn’t come at the expense of performance. The company says you can expect read speeds of up to 6700 MBps and write speeds of up to 5300 MBps and you should have no problems editing 8K footage stored on the drive. Part of this is thanks to its Thunderbolt 5 interface, which allows speeds of up to 10,000 Mbps. If you don’t have one of the few computers with a Thunderbolt 5 port, it can be used with USB and Thunderbolt 4, although the latter also won’t be able to reach those peak speeds.
splash of color
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We’ve covered several smallrig video lights in the Accessory Roundup, but none are quite as small and portable as RF 10CIt’s a 10W light that’s around the size of a flashlight, which the company describes as perfect for “backlighting and background light for smartphone video shooting.” It can light up in four colors depending on the demands of your scene: “sunset orange”, blue, white and red.
The RF10C has a built-in battery, is rechargeable by USB-C, and comes with 20 gobos that let you cast lights in the shape of a heart, window, semi-circle, and more. The light has two standard 1/4″-20 mounting threads, and the extended barrel gives you the option of having a spread or narrow beam.
