The Digital Photography Book, Volume 3 – Gear Guide


Westcott 43″ Optical White Satin Collapsible shoot-through umbrella
Not only does this umbrella provide quick and easy light diffusion, its unique design allows it to collapse, so that it fits easily into a compact location case.
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LumoPro LP633 Umbrella Swivel w/ Flash Shoe Adapter
This tilting umbrella bracket has a flash shoe to support the flash and a slot for an umbrella to slide through.
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Manfrotto Lightweight 6’2″ Nano stand
This is a perfect compact light stand for supporting small fixtures on location. It folds down to 19 inches and fits easily into a location case.
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Lastolite 24×24 inch Ezybox
With this small softbox, the light is more contained, so it’s easier to get more dramatic light, and they don’t blow over as readily when using them outdoors. It’s small and portable and it sets up quickly.
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Nikon Speedlight SB-900
Nikon’s most advanced in the Speedlight range has been expanded to cover 17mm to 200mm lenses and now has three light distribution patterns: Standard, Center-Weighted, and Even. It can be used as a stand-alone flash, or as part of a wireless group.
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Canon 580EX II
Features include improved dust and water resistance, body strength, and the ability to control flash functions and settings from the camera menu (EOS-1D Mark III only). Also includes improved communication reliability through its direct contacts, a metal hot shoe, and faster recycling time.
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PocketWizard MiniTT1 Radio Slave Transmitter
Dedicated specifically to the Nikon i-TTL and Canon E-TTL II flash control systems, it simply slides right into the camera’s hotshoe and supports single or multiple dedicated flash units.
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Nikon SD-9 Battery Pack for the SB-900 Speedlight
Used to increase the number of SB-900 Speedlight flash firings and shorten the recycling time. Holds 8 AA batteries, but provides the fastest recycling time when used with 4 AA NiMH rechargeable batteries.
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Canon Compact Battery Pack CP-E4
Improves flash recycle times and increases the number of firings before needing to replace batteries. Holds 8 AA batteries.
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Energizer 15-Minute Charger
Charges 1-4 AA or AAA NiMH rechargeable batteries at home or in your studio with an AC wall adaptor or in your car with the car adaptor.
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Ray Flash
A flash adapter that converts your hot-shoe flash unit into a ring flash, giving you a flat, bright look and hard-edged shadow behind the subject.
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Sticky Filters
These filters correct unnatural background color lit by florescent, tungsten, and other light sources when using flash.
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Bogen/Manfrotto Justin Spring Clamp with Flash Shoe
Clamps onto pipes up to 1.6″ in diameter, or stands or arms that have a 5/8″ top or 3/8″ thread. It also features a cold flash swivel shoe for attaching a shoe-mount flash.
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Lastolite HiLite Illuminated Background
This background allows you to place your strobe inside the background, directing the light to the background and filling it with white light.
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Elinchrom BXRi 500/500 To-Go 2 Monolight Kit
This kit contains two 500-watt BXRi strobes, two 26″ softboxes, two light stands, two cases, and the wireless transmitter you need to make it all wireless.
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17″ Elinchrom beauty dish
Ideal for eliminating specular light from flash, this redirects the flash back into the reflector and is perfect for portrait and commercial photography.
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Gitzo G-065 monitor platform
This platform screws right into a standard tripod, and it’s just the right size for a 15″ laptop.
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Manfrotto by Bogen Imaging 131DD Tripod Accessory Arm for Four Heads
This horizontal bar screws right onto your tripod, so you can attach the monitor platform with your laptop on one end, and put a ballhead on the other end.
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Innovatronix Explorer XT battery pack
A portable power supply designed to power flash and power pack units for location shoots.
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AlienBees ABR800
Studio ring flash that is compact, lightweight, and easy to use with cameras with lenses up to four inches in diameter.
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Wide-Angle AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8D Autofocus Lens
Compact and lightweight, this fast, wide-angle lens is great for landscapes or portraits.
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Canon Wide-Angle EF 24mm f/2.8 Autofocus Lens
Wide-Angle lens that is good for casual snapshots, as well as perspective shots, features a large aperture.
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Sigma Wide-Angle 28mm f/1.8 Lens
This lens has a macro focusing capability with fast f/1.8 maximum exposure, making it ideal for dSLR cameras.
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Nikkor AF 10.5mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens
Specifically designed for use with certain Nikon dSLR cameras, this lens is perfect for photographers who seek unique visual effects.
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Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens
This fisheye lens has a 180 degree angle of view and wide depth of field for unique and intriguing effects.
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Sigma 10mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens
This lens captures a rectangular view (167 degree on a Canon and 180 degree on a Nikon) in all directions and the diagonal field of view produces striking images with exaggerated perspective and distortion.
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Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 wide-angle zoom lens
This is an extreme ultra-wide zoom, wide-aperture lens. It delivers edge-to-corner sharpness and features a nano crystal coating to reduce the effects of ghost and flare.
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Canon 400mm f/5.6 super-telephoto lens
This high-performance, sharp, super-telephoto lens has a built-in hood and a detachable tripod mount.
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Nikkor 200-400mm f/4 super-telephoto zoom lens
This zoom lens includes a VR system (compatible with certain Nikon cameras) that allows for handheld shooting in low-light conditions, swift autofocus, offers a natural viewfinder image, and detects panning.
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Canon 500mm f/4 super-telephoto lens
With an f/4 aperture, the 500mm f/4 IS provides AF with any EOS body. Also, it is weather resistant, durable, and has superb AF speed and optical quality.
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Canon zoom telephoto EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6
This lens offers high resolution, superb contrast, neutral color balance, and Canon’s IS function.
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Lensbaby Composer
This special-effect lens is a hybrid between a bellows camera and a tilt-shift camera. It will bring one area of your photo into sharp focus, surrounded by increasing blur, and allows you to also get glowing highlights and subtle color distortions without software.
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Lastolite Studio Cubelite
This product-shooting tent allows you to easily wrap balanced soft light right around the product, while avoiding lots of nasty shadow problems caused by using multiple lights.
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Westcott TD5 Spiderlite kit
The medium one-light kit includes the fixture, softbox, tilt bracket, and light stand (bulbs must be purchased separately).
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Nikon DK-5 eyepiece cap
This eyepiece cap protects the camera’s viewfinder from light, dust, and moisture.
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Lastolite Trilite triflector
The three reversible white/silver panels can be adjusted to get the light exactly where it’s needed, and are perfect for creating catchlights. They collapse and fit into a portable bag.
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BlackRapid R-Strap
The R-Strap straps across your chest and screws into the bottom of your camera, so your second camera body can hang at your side. Just reach your hand down for your second camera when you need to take a quick shot.
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Think Tank Photo’s Modular belt system
Have your spare lenses, accessories, memory cards, etc., just inches away with them wrapped around your body, attached to this belt system. Customize your belt to your gear and needs.
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Opteka Timer Remote Control
This timer remote control set combines many features into one with a self-timer, interval timer, long-exposure timer, and exposure count setting feature. Can be set anywhere from one second to 99 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds.
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ExpoImaging ExpoDisc
Hold this translucent disc over the end of your lens, aim at the light source, then take a photo, and create a custom white balance designed for the exact light you’re shooting in.
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Epson P-7000 Multimedia Photo Viewer
For backing up images in the field, the P-7000 has a 160-GB capacity and 4″ LCD display.
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Kata KT E-702 Elements Cover
Used to protect your dSLR camera from rain and bad weather. There’s access to all the camera and lens controls via two side sleeves.
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LumoPro LP633 Umbrella Swivel w/ Flash Shoe Adapter
This tilting umbrella bracket has a flash shoe to support the flash and a slot for an umbrella to slide through.
More Info


Manfrotto Lightweight 6’2″ Nano stand
This is a perfect compact light stand for supporting small fixtures on location. It folds down to 19 inches and fits easily into a location case.
More Info


Lastolite 24×24 inch Ezybox
With this small softbox, the light is more contained, so it’s easier to get more dramatic light, and they don’t blow over as readily when using them outdoors. It’s small and portable and it sets up quickly.
More Info


Nikon Speedlight SB-900
Nikon’s most advanced in the Speedlight range has been expanded to cover 17mm to 200mm lenses and now has three light distribution patterns: Standard, Center-Weighted, and Even. It can be used as a stand-alone flash, or as part of a wireless group.
More Info


Canon 580EX II
Features include improved dust and water resistance, body strength, and the ability to control flash functions and settings from the camera menu (EOS-1D Mark III only). Also includes improved communication reliability through its direct contacts, a metal hot shoe, and faster recycling time.
More Info


PocketWizard MiniTT1 Radio Slave Transmitter
Dedicated specifically to the Nikon i-TTL and Canon E-TTL II flash control systems, it simply slides right into the camera’s hotshoe and supports single or multiple dedicated flash units.
More Info


Nikon SD-9 Battery Pack for the SB-900 Speedlight
Used to increase the number of SB-900 Speedlight flash firings and shorten the recycling time. Holds 8 AA batteries, but provides the fastest recycling time when used with 4 AA NiMH rechargeable batteries.
More Info


Canon Compact Battery Pack CP-E4
Improves flash recycle times and increases the number of firings before needing to replace batteries. Holds 8 AA batteries.
More Info


Energizer 15-Minute Charger
Charges 1—4 AA or AAA NiMH rechargeable batteries at home or in your studio with an AC wall adaptor or in your car with the car adaptor.
More Info


Ray Flash
A flash adapter that converts your hot-shoe flash unit into a ring flash, giving you a flat, bright look and hard-edged shadow behind the subject.
More Info


Sticky Filters
These filters correct unnatural background color lit by florescent, tungsten, and other light sources when using flash.
More Info


Bogen/Manfrotto Justin Spring Clamp with Flash Shoe
Clamps onto pipes up to 1.6″ in diameter, or stands or arms that have a 5/8″ top or 3/8″ thread. It also features a cold flash swivel shoe for attaching a shoe-mount flash.
More Info


Lastolite HiLite Illuminated Background
This background allows you to place your strobe inside the background, directing the light to the background and filling it with white light.
More Info


Elinchrom BXRi 500/500 To-Go 2 Monolight Kit
This kit contains two 500-watt BXRi strobes, two 26″ softboxes, two light stands, two cases, and the wireless transmitter you need to make it all wireless.
More Info


17″ Elinchrom beauty dish
Ideal for eliminating specular light from flash, this redirects the flash back into the reflector and is perfect for portrait and commercial photography.
More Info


Gitzo G-065 monitor platform
This platform screws right into a standard tripod, and it’s just the right size for a 15″ laptop.
More Info


Manfrotto by Bogen Imaging 131DD Tripod Accessory Arm for Four Heads
This horizontal bar screws right onto your tripod, so you can attach the monitor platform with your laptop on one end, and put a ballhead on the other end.
More Info


Innovatronix Explorer XT battery pack
A portable power supply designed to power flash and power pack units for location shoots.
More Info


AlienBees ABR800
Studio ring flash that is compact, lightweight, and easy to use with cameras with lenses up to four inches in diameter.
More Info


Wide-Angle AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8D Autofocus Lens
Compact and lightweight, this fast, wide-angle lens is great for landscapes or portraits.
More Info


Canon Wide-Angle EF 24mm f/2.8 Autofocus Lens
Wide-Angle lens that is good for casual snapshots, as well as perspective shots, features a large aperture.
More Info


Sigma Wide-Angle 28mm f/1.8 Lens
This lens has a macro focusing capability with fast f/1.8 maximum exposure, making it ideal for dSLR cameras.
More Info


Nikkor AF 10.5mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens
Specifically designed for use with certain Nikon dSLR cameras, this lens is perfect for photographers who seek unique visual effects.
More Info


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