Elinchrom users only- whatcha got?

ZenFox wrote in post #10910515
I just finished playing around with my new Elinchrom setup, and am typing this half blind:
Ranger RX/AS w/ S head
53" Octa
Skyport Speed RX triggers
w/ 2nd head and beauty dish following as soon as I learn to use what I have.

Thank you ed. for your total disregard to my original $1000 lighting budget and everyone else who I harassed with all my modifier/trigger questions.

hahaha enjoy it!

mickeyjuice wrote in post #10911669
Closest I've got to a setup shot with it

I was going to bid on that Sheldon, but postage to Aus would've been insane, plus there's plenty of more things above it on the wish list (Kacey BD is the first, then probably a pair of D-lite 4s).

Jannie wrote in post #10910478
A brand new 74" Octabank today!

ZenFox wrote in post #10910515
I just finished playing around with my new Elinchrom setup, and am typing this half blind:
Ranger RX/AS w/ S head
53" Octa
Skyport Speed RX triggers
w/ 2nd head and beauty dish following as soon as I learn to use what I have.

Thank you ed. for your total disregard to my original $1000 lighting budget and everyone else who I harassed with all my modifier/trigger questions.

Sheldon N wrote in post #10911095
SCORE!!!!

I just got the Elinchrom modifier deal of the year!

Sometimes I start to think this thread is the lone force driving the economy

mickeyjuice wrote in post #10910625
We are good at ignoring budgets around here

ZenFox wrote in post #10910515
I just finished playing around with my new Elinchrom setup, and am typing this half blind:
Ranger RX/AS w/ S head
53" Octa
Skyport Speed RX triggers
w/ 2nd head and beauty dish following as soon as I learn to use what I have.

Thank you ed. for your total disregard to my original $1000 lighting budget and everyone else who I harassed with all my modifier/trigger questions.

Hah

That's almost exactly what I'm getting, but I'm flipping between the 39" deep octa and the 53" octa.

Anyone know anything about the rigidness and resistance to water on the Rotalux modifiers, more specifically the Deep Octa? I wanna shoot something now, but its windy and rainy.

olelovold wrote in post #10913104
Anyone know anything about the rigidness and resistance to water on the Rotalux modifiers, more specifically the Deep Octa? I wanna shoot something now, but its windy and rainy.

I believe the material used in the Rotalux lightboxes is somewhat water resistant but not waterproof.

Can anyone confirm that?

Lichtwerk wrote in post #10912483
Sometimes I start to think this thread is the lone force driving the economy

I agree 100%

I even went out and ordered a 70-200 f2.8 is II after I saw everyone else getting stuff

TMR Design wrote in post #10913141
I believe the material used in the Rotalux lightboxes is somewhat water resistant but not waterproof.

Can anyone confirm that?

is it the same as portalite?

If it is, the front diffuser wasnt that great in the water but the actual box part was good as long as its like not like under water wet.

mickeyjuice wrote in post #10911669
Closest I've got to a setup shot with it

Wow, that thing is huge!

Sheldon N wrote in post #10913926
Wow, that thing is huge!

Yeah, it's insane!

It's also the easiest/quickest to construct modifer that I own, bizarrely enough.

Sheldon N wrote in post #10913926
Wow, that thing is huge!

that's what she said

Guys, I've been hired to do this type of shoot. It's like a catalog kind of shoot with a mannequin on white. It's going down this Saturday with a designer for TH.

Any tips?

I know I'll blow out the BG to pure white and use an octa for the dress about 5' from the BG. I'd meter the shot, make sure I get enough details for each dress, put my camera on a tripod which would be slightly below the octa, and then keep rolling from there, dress after dress (about 40-50).

I'm really nervous about my color balance issue. Aside from auto-balance, I don't know how to set to custom with my Nikon. (Yikes!) Lol.

BTW, I can't believe how the Australians here can spend so much on Elinchrom when they should focus on paying Oprah's tab. LMAO! J/K!

Seanzky wrote in post #10915302
BTW, I can't believe how the Australians here can spend so much on Elinchrom when they should focus on paying Oprah's tab. LMAO! J/K!

Seriously, paying here MORE money to get her here. We should be trying to keep TV "personalities" out. Especially the lame ones.