ahalpert
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Oh yeah? With the discount, they're priced similarly to the Glow scrim kit from adorama. Usually they're priced higher than the Glow. My Glow 60" octabox has been good to me so far. I'll be gentle!
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Oh yeah? With the discount, they're priced similarly to the Glow scrim kit from adorama. Usually they're priced higher than the Glow. My Glow 60" octabox has been good to me so far. I'll be gentle!
NorBro
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Buying anything from B&H's Gradus Group makes for very easy and straightforward customer service if anyone ever needed it. They already offer pretty great CS, but they have so much of the below brands in stock for no hassle replacements (at least IMO).
I've owned at least one thing from every one on there...always nice stuff that works perfectly fine, especially Impact.
https://www.gradusgroup.com/brands
I've owned at least one thing from every one on there...always nice stuff that works perfectly fine, especially Impact.
https://www.gradusgroup.com/brands
NorBro
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BTW, maybe this was posted in this thread somewhere but if not:
https://www.newsshooter.com/2020/11/25/black-friday-cyber-monday-shopping-guide-2020/
They've been updating it so I'd bookmark it.
CineD made various deals separate articles (not bothering with all of the links).
https://www.newsshooter.com/2020/11/25/black-friday-cyber-monday-shopping-guide-2020/
They've been updating it so I'd bookmark it.
CineD made various deals separate articles (not bothering with all of the links).
Run&Gun
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Were they still in-stock when you ordered? Says ‘backordered’ right now. Maybe Santa will bring them to you.
Run&Gun
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Hmmm... I had no idea about Luxli. I just remember what stuck out in my head from one of Matt’s reviews was them being a Norwegian based lighting company.
That was the height of the retail careers then. That manager I brought up above told me, there were people with law degrees deferring their law careers to sell electronics. But Good Guys, Silo, and even CC themselves by the early 90's did not pay that much. Maybe Paul did.
PS. So, nobody's got the "Meatballs/Meatball" story? It was a good story.
Or, in this case, IMDB.
ahalpert
Major Contributor
Actually I couldn't even order because of shabbat Haha. And they said backordered till late December.
BUT my peak design Sling, a7siii LANC cable adapter and used tamron 70-180 all came in today just in time for my birthday. So happy birthday to me! The only catch is - lensauthority only gives you 3 days after receiving the gear to test it and make sure you didn't get a lemon. So I better get on that and see if the tammy 70-180 AF is all it's cracked up to be...
mothmachine
Active member
"Pawa" brand batteries. Ha.
NorBro
Major Contributor
Those are like Adorama's Green Extreme...probably come from the same factory, ha.
Battery production is pretty trivial these days.
https://www.adorama.com/gxlpe6.html
Battery production is pretty trivial these days.
https://www.adorama.com/gxlpe6.html
Eric Coughlin
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puredrifting
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I'm a snob with grip equipment, American or Matthews is the only stuff I consider to be pro level stuff that will last decades. All of the other stuff is disposable Kleenex.
I have half a dozen of the Nice Foto parabolic softboxes to go with all of my Godox lights. They are cheap Chinese. If I can get half a dozen shoots out
of them, I will be happy, they're cheap enough to consider disposable compared to my Chimera softboxes. Nothing wrong with buying Kleenex as long as you know you are buying Kleenex ;-)
puredrifting
Major Contributor
Very appropriate!
Peter C.
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I saw an HP monitor on sale. I'm temped because its $2k monitor now only $699. I've decided against it because of its higher dci resolution it might not play well with a mac either leaving black bars or scale oddly.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1360365-REG/hp_z4y82a8_aba_z31x_31_1_dreamcolor_p3.html
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1360365-REG/hp_z4y82a8_aba_z31x_31_1_dreamcolor_p3.html
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When it comes to stands and most grip stuff, i tend to go heavy duty. Impact c-stands i’ve seen do the job, but leave a disconcerting feeling. However for little 18”x’s travel kit, i’d be ok with some impact gear. Impact is to grip as smallrig is to camera, just somehow end up with at least one piece from them in your kit.
Peter C.
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It seems designed and better suited to be a dedicated display monitor. If you film and edit DCI (which I don't) its native resolution will match. I've had bad luck buying things because it's a good deal rather than paying more and getting what I need instead. It's hard to tell how well it would interface with the new mac and how it would deal with the resolution. The problem with monitors ordered online is its expensive to ship back. You either waste time and money or keep it even if you're not happy with it.
The high cost of it's initial release had to do with being true 10bit color which is expensive to produce and the built in color calibrator which is nice. It sounds to be a bit over priced for pro market which didn't represent it's true value. It's probably $1,500 monitor but already 3 yearsaor old, outdated big bezels, no HDR, or fast refresh for gaming...probably making it difficult to sell to ordinary consumers.
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Those LA consumer electronics ads in the '80s where hilarious and relentless. My favorite ad, while pushing what a great deal they had and you couldn't pass it up and wanted you to get to the store now said "call in sick, what the hell". The announcer for those ads was quite a character. That along with Cal Worthington and his dog Spot.
Run&Gun
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Only three reviews: One collected as part of a "promotion", one declaring it garbage, and the third the guy just bought it yesterday and probably has yet to lay eyes on it. Couple that with the price drop from $3K to $600 and red flags spring up in the air and you have to wonder: Are you getting the steal of the year or are they dumping junk while they can?