New head
The new geared head I acquired in January 2025 to replace my trusty Benro, which isn’t getting any younger, and will now be retired to live on the humongous Manfrotto tripod I use only in the studio, with only very rare outings.
The Innorel leveling base will also go on the Manfrotto tripod.
This K&F Concept head received excellent reviews everywhere I looked.
This is the last photo I took with my Phottix studio strobes. They served me well for many years, and are now on sale as I have just moved to Godox strobes.
Strobist and technical: One Phottix Pro Indra500 monolight on a Profoto light stand in Rembrandt position to camera left, 1.5 meters from subject and 1 meter above it, firing at 1/16 ¼ power through a Phottix Pro 110–cm Luna octabox with double diffuser and an additional Lastolite scrim; and another Indra500 studio strobe on a Profoto light stand in lateral position to camera right, 1.5 meters from subject and about 0.5 meter above it, firing at 1/16 power through a Phottix Pro 150–cm Raja softbox with double diffuser. Glossy white background.
Strobes set and triggered via Phottix Pro Odin II radio controller on the Nikon Z7’s hot shoe, manual mode. Sekonic L–858D light meter used to balance light sources. Manfrotto 161 MK2B geared tripod with Neewer horizontal arm and K&F Concept ball head. Nikon Z7 II camera, Micro-Nikkor Z MC 105mm, ƒ/2.8 macro S lens.
Composite shot made up of 15 focus-stacked exposures, set automatically using the built-in function on the camera. Stack processed with Helicon Focus software.
New head
The new geared head I acquired in January 2025 to replace my trusty Benro, which isn’t getting any younger, and will now be retired to live on the humongous Manfrotto tripod I use only in the studio, with only very rare outings.
The Innorel leveling base will also go on the Manfrotto tripod.
This K&F Concept head received excellent reviews everywhere I looked.
This is the last photo I took with my Phottix studio strobes. They served me well for many years, and are now on sale as I have just moved to Godox strobes.
Strobist and technical: One Phottix Pro Indra500 monolight on a Profoto light stand in Rembrandt position to camera left, 1.5 meters from subject and 1 meter above it, firing at 1/16 ¼ power through a Phottix Pro 110–cm Luna octabox with double diffuser and an additional Lastolite scrim; and another Indra500 studio strobe on a Profoto light stand in lateral position to camera right, 1.5 meters from subject and about 0.5 meter above it, firing at 1/16 power through a Phottix Pro 150–cm Raja softbox with double diffuser. Glossy white background.
Strobes set and triggered via Phottix Pro Odin II radio controller on the Nikon Z7’s hot shoe, manual mode. Sekonic L–858D light meter used to balance light sources. Manfrotto 161 MK2B geared tripod with Neewer horizontal arm and K&F Concept ball head. Nikon Z7 II camera, Micro-Nikkor Z MC 105mm, ƒ/2.8 macro S lens.
Composite shot made up of 15 focus-stacked exposures, set automatically using the built-in function on the camera. Stack processed with Helicon Focus software.