Along with the re-designed and cheaper Satellite notebooks from last week, Toshiba’s tossing out a pair of gaming notebooks packing Penryn chips (Core 2 Duo 8300 or 9300) and NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT running in SLI, with HDD configs up to 400GB. Starting at two grand, which isn’t bad for “gaming” notebooks, but churning the 8600M GT seems a bit old and busted with 9-series cards right around the corner. Plus, the plain Jane looks aren’t going to turn any heads. [Toshiba]
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Ray Flash Ring Flash Adapter
At first at glance, the Ray Flash seems like a needlessly spendthrift way to get flat ring flash lighting. For the same $300 you could purchase a standalone ring strobe, right? Yes, but then you end up carrying around two…
At first at glance, the Ray Flash seems like a needlessly spendthrift way to get flat ring flash lighting. For the same $300 you could buy a standalone ring strobe, right? Yes, but then you end up carrying around two guns instead of one flash unit and one slim and sturdy adapter.
The Ray Flash clamps on to your flash head and uses a series of prisms and reflectors to guide the light around the circle. Unlike some homemade solutions, the Ray Flash only loses one stop of light, and as it is simply redirecting the flash output, the camera’s TTL flash keeps working. Aside from the price, there’s another problem. The Ray Flash will only fit the Canon 580EX and Nikon SB800 speedlights, even though you can try squeezing it onto other models and it should work ok.
It’s a costly, specialist piece of kit to be sure, but if the runaway sales of digital SLRs is anything to go by, the enthusiast market for these kinds of thing is only getting bigger. If only the prices of the accessories would drop as fast as those of the cameras themselves.
Product page [Expo Imaging. Thanks Christina!]
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The Twitter Bird The Shuttle KPC Bird We were poking around the Internet looking for a cool new mini computer when we ran into KPC’s Shuttle PC, and were pleased to find an inexpensive Foresight Linux kit with some style….
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