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The Elinchrom ELB-1200’s Compact Size Targets On Location Adventure Photographers

Chris Gampat
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02/27/2017
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With today’s announcement of the new Elinchrom ELB-1200, the company has declared their interests in further supporting the adventure photographer whom does a whole lot of their paid work on location. The Elinchrom ELB-1200 is a special battery pack that’s only 4.5kg in weight while also boasting what the company claims to be lots of durability. Considering the aluminum housing of the redesigned flash heads, that already is starting to make sense.

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While the ELB-1200 is the pack, the company also redesigned their flash heads for the adventure photographer going on location.

According to the press release:

Combined with the corresponding flash head, the Hi-Sync option allows photographers to freeze motion up to 1/8000s and obtain images with complete sharpness. Compatible with all Elinchrom light shaping tools, photographers can take full control of their light in their workflow.

Besides this, there is also the Pro and Action flash heads.

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Returning to the ELB-1200 flash pack, the battery is said to be able to resist harsh weather conditions and heavy shocks. When it hits the market in the middle of this year, we’re sure on location and adventure photographers will be taking it with them to Iceland every chance they get. It’s adjustable in 1/10th power increments and can output a flash duration of up to 1/8850. Of course, as per the name, it has 1,200 watt seconds of power output all balanced to daylight at 5500K.

Oh yeah, and you can use it for video too!

More specs are below.

Specifications & Features Wrap Up Unit

• 18 x 13 x 28 cm

• 3.2 kg (without battery)

• Large OLED control display

• Fast recycling times (1.7s in FAST mode, 3s in DEFAULT mode)

• Strobo, sequence and delayed flash mode

• USB for firmware updates

Flash Head

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• Heavy duty compact head

• Aluminium housing

• 22.5 x 14 x 23 cm

• 2.2 kg

• Aluminium tilt head

• 7 mm and/or 8 mm umbrella tube

• 92 CRI dimmable daylight LED equivalent to 250w Halogen

• For both still photography and video

• Silent video mode

Li-Ion Battery

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• Weather resistant design

• Battery Air / 215 full power flashes, 1.1 kg (included)

• Battery Air / 80 min of continuous LED light

• Battery HD / 400 full power flashes, 1.5 kg (optional)

• Battery HD / 120 min of continuous LED light

• 5V USB power output

• Shipping mode for travelling

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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.