r/Photoassistants

Portable Battery / Power Station for Profoto D2 / D3

I'm looking for recommendations for portable battery stations for D2 / D3 heads on location. I want something smaller and lighter than the huge EcoFlow units, ideally 30 pounds or so. Does anyone have a setup they like that works well?

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u/Gregggoryyyyyy — 23 hours ago

Still Life Studios in NYC

Hi all! Does anyone know great any still life studios in NYC similar to Noho studios with Foba stand, lighting, surfaces etc geared specifically towards still life?

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u/No-Speaker971 — 2 days ago

Very Cool Meter

It's been years since i was a full time assistant and I lived by the old Sekonic L 358 on set. I paid 300 bucks 25 years ago for that meter and had an old cracked one for back up. Today, I paid $45 for a light meter that takes photos and video. Times are wild.

u/northerntouch — 3 days ago

Apple over Eizo?

I keep hearing about photographers and digitechs are using Apple monitors more than Eizo monitors as the quality is already as good as Eizo other than 8 bit + FRC, wireless monitor setup, and built-in calibration tool. Tho Eizo is well known for professional monitors with reliable and trustworthy quality, they are still sticking with old specs while Apple can do both. Yes, Eizo will announce CG series OLED monitors later this year but that would be extremly expensive while OLED monitors are still not good enough.

Anyway, I wanted to ask how Apple monitors, especially Studio XDR performs compared to Eizo on sets? Do digitechs and photographers are now prefering Apple over Eizo if possible?

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u/Comfortable-Grand-46 — 4 days ago

Area 51 Tether cables...Fuji GFX 50sii

Hello, firstly, what are your thoughts on this brand of cables - they have lots of flavors, am not sure why. I'm tethering a Fuji GFX50sii that I'm new to. Do these bodies have a hard time connecting or tend to burn out cables? I remember working with a photographer who had a GFX 50 or 50s and she was always cursing the body when trying to connect to C1 to her laptop. Not sure what cables she used. I've read that connecting GFX bodies is finicky. I have a friend who uses a variation of GFX 100 and says Area 51 is the only one that works reliably. I've read that Fuji has improved their tethering reliability and that later 100 models are quite stable. Thanks for your thoughts and opinions...

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u/sean_artist_guy — 9 days ago

Live for Capture One not showing on iPad

Just ran into an issue the last couple days where the Live for capture on won’t show up on 1 of my iPads. Nothing has really changed, to my knowledge. I can access it from my second iPad which is an older iPad Pro but my 12.9” iPad is not finding the live link. I am working off of studios WiFi but as I said I can get it on one but not the other.

I’ve tried restarting capture one and the iPad apps. Reconnecting to WiFi and also deleting and re installing the iPad apps and still nothing.

Anyone know what could be happening?

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u/cherrytoo — 13 days ago