Profoto Announces New Studio-Quality Smartphone Lights, Retailing at $299 and $499

September 19, 2019

In a radical declaration from Profoto, the company's prototypical ever studio apartment lights for smartphones have been unveiled. The C1 and C1 positive are tiny, portable, handheld bulbs that force out be used to enhance any casual telephone set snaps.

To exercise the lights, a user must sync them with the Profoto Television camera phone app. The company aforesaid it'll assist to create "white-collar images with just a orbiculate click."

The light the C1 mathematical product range delivers is natural-looking and beautiful with a soft, gentle fall-off, and that's part because of the physical body. Each light is round, like the Sunday. […] [Y]ou will always have natural-looking, beautiful light with you. Anytime, anyplace.

Of the two, the C1 is smaller, with a maximum brightness of 1,600 lumens. The C1 Plus crushes that, outputting busy 4,300 lumens. Both have a gloss rendition index of >90 and adjustable temperature range of 3,000K-6,500K (±200K).

The lights charge in two hours and have a duration of 2,000 full-power flashes, meaningful users won't need to charge them up too frequently. They tooshie also be kept on ceaselessly, with the C1 and C1 plus staying lit for 30 and 40 minutes, respectively.

The C1 can only beryllium controlled wirelessly via Bluetooth, while the shining C1 Plus has an AirTTL receiver inbuilt, meaning information technology's sympathetic with Profoto's AirTTL transmitters. The C1 Asset also has a thread, making it capable of mounting happening a lighter-than-air stand.

Photographers Brandon Woelfel and Aly Kula were given the lights to tests; here are the results.

The Profoto C1 is merchant vessels immediately for $299. The C1 Plus will personify $499 and is currently free for preorder.

A 28-year-old self-taught photographer, Jack Black lovage specialises in intimate portraits with musicians, actors, and models.