Strobes

Lighting with flashes can be addicting, but it can also be extremely expensive. Especially when you want to fire multiple flashes at once. But, if you know your way around a soldering iron, there's a DIY hack to keep the cost down. Peter Y Lin put together this hack on his Flickr account, and it's a way of triggering six flashes instantaneously.

 The Westcott Apollo softbox has been around since 1988 and has worked its way into the bags of quite a few photographers. Westcott is now renaming the old standby as the Apollo Medium and adding a few upgrades. It's now made of a more durable fabric, the silver interior is more reflective, and the rib structure has changed a bit. It still measures at 28-inches and costs $149.

Planned to hit stores later this month, Photogenic Professional Lighting has announced three new lines of lighting kits: the Solair(tm), PowerLight®, and StudioMax® III series, each with a different need in mind. All the kits include a softbox from Photogenic, as well as a bevy of other extras, depenging on configuration: All Solair(tm) and PowerLight® kits include Photogenic Heavy Duty Air-Cushioned Stands. Most competitive brands don't offer this option.All Photogenic Kits with two or more lights include the patented High Quality Photogenic Eclipse Umbrellas.All Photogenic kits include Photogenic PL7R reflectors. Other brands do not include this accessory with their monolights.All new Solair(tm) and Digital PowerLight® kits offer a PocketWizard(tm) Kit version with the radio receiver built-in to the monolight housing.All Kits with two or more lights include a Photogenic soft case w/wheels for ultimate portability or safe storage.All new Photogenic kits include a color-corrected UV flashtube.Four AKC Kits offer a radio version with a built-in 4-channel radio receiver in the monolight housing. Scattered throughout the list of new gear are a number of travel kits for those of you who want to take your lighting rigs with you on the road. Photogenic is casting this major new offering as a bid to tap into the extremely large market of new DLSR users, as more and more people are drawn to photography.Unfortunately, we don't have any prices on what these kits will cost you, but since they're due to launch this month, it shouldn't be long before you see them in catalogues and photography stores.We've embedded a full list of all 24 kits after the jump.