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The Elinchrom ELB 400 is a Portable 424 Watt Second Monolight System

Chris Gampat
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03/09/2015
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While Elinchrom hasn’t really done a lot to revolutionize the lighting market, many photographers are very happy with their products. Indeed, they can deliver some stunning results. Today, they’re looking to change things a bit differently. Like the Profoto B2 announced earlier last week, the ELB 400 is a portable solution that offers the power of monolights but with more portability. Unlike Profoto though, Elinchrom doesn’t have TTL light meter integration. For many professional strobists and photographers, that isn’t a problem as they’d rather have full control rather than rely on what a camera thinks is what they want.

The Elinchrom ELB 400 is a 424 watt second monolight system all based off of the battery pack. The pack controls the power output and all while the heads simply transmit the lighting. The system uses Quadra heads and Elinchrom claims that their LED display will be very intuitive. The battery pack has a Skyport transmitter built in, so you just need to use the one that attaches onto your camera and is part of the kit.

These lights are being targeted at the action/adventure photography crowd with a big emphasis on extreme sports. With that said, there are heads specifically designed for Action shooting, though there are also heads designed for Pro use. They’re also boasting a maximum recycle time of 3.5 seconds or 1.5 seconds in fast mode, plus up to 6,000 battery pops.

We’re going to ask for review units, but we’re sure that the lights may be a nice addition to what current Elinchrom users have.

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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.
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