Elinchrom LTD is a Swiss company manufacturing flash equipment and light shaping tools for professional photographers. The company was founded in 1962 in

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Range

Elinchrom produces compact flash heads, battery packs, continuous light accessories, remote controls, light shapers and other accessories.

Compacts flash heads

Recently, Elinchrom moved their tooling for the Compact entry-level lights to India where they are now producing the D-Lite RX series. The professional compact series, the ELC Pro HD is manufactured in Switzerland. * Ranger Quadra AS, RX, RX Speed, RX Speed AS Elinchrom Ranger RX Quadra

Remote controllers

Remote controllers include: * EL Skyport Wireless Elinchrom skyport

Continuous lighting

The continuous lighting uses tungsten bulbs with a

colour temperature Color temperature is the color of light emitted by an idealized opaque, non-reflective body at a particular temperature measured in kelvins. The color temperature scale is used to categorize the color of light emitted by other light sources ...

of around 3200 K instead of daylight-balanced (5500 K) flash tubes. All units accept the same range of light modifiers as the flash units, subject to the additional heat generated by the bulbs. The Scanlite range employs

halogen bulb A halogen lamp (also called tungsten halogen, quartz-halogen, and quartz iodine lamp) is an Incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp consisting of a tungsten filament sealed in a compact transparent envelope that is filled with a mixture of ...

Lighting modifiers

Elinchrom supplies a range of lighting modifiers as accessories for their lights. Some accessories (such as umbrellas) attach to the light unit by means of a pole passing through a 7 mm hole through the head, and others (such as softboxes, reflector dishes and

snoot In photography, a snoot is a tube or similar object that fits over a studio light or portable flash and allows the photographer to control the direction and radius of the light beam. These may be conical, cylindrical, or rectangular in shape. Sn ...

s) attach using Elinchrom's bayonet system.

Notes

References

* http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Three-products-to-be-launched-by-Elinchrom-10325 * http://www.prophotonut.com/2011/08/24/elinchrom-quadra-lighting-kit-first-time-out-pictures-and-behind-the-scenes/

External links

Elinchrom web site
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