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Elinchrom Releases the New ELC Pro-HD 500 and 1000 Monolights

Chris Gampat
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02/26/2014
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Last Updated on 02/26/2014 by Chris Gampat

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Just recently, Elinchrom announced two new monolights in the form of the ELC Pro-HD 500 and 1000. Don’t ask us why they have the term “HD” in there, but they’ve got quite the feature set. The lights boast what the company is calling a lighting fast recycle time of 0.6s at full power for the 500W and 1.2s to full power for the ELC 1000w with flash durations of 1/5000th and 1/5260th respectively for both lights.

The heads have OLED screens, variable factors for the power scale (such as watt seconds, joules, and stops), a sequence mode for rapid shooting (similar to Einstein’s action mode), delayed mode for second curtain or first curtain sync, and stroboscopic mode.

As for the prices, don’t expect them to be Profoto or Broncolor prices. The European prices translate into $960.50 for the 500, $1,235.32 for the 1000, $2,059.78 for the two head 500 kit, and $2,609.42 for the 1000 two head kit. All kits include 2xheads, 2x16cm reflectors, Pro Tec carry bag, and Skyport radio transmitters.

These lights mostly seem like Paul C Buff Einstein competitors and trying to edge a little bit into Profoto territory. While we’ve tested Elinchrom lights and loved them, those prices are a bit too rich for our blood.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.