Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty Guitar

To feel better about having that new les paul strapped on securely! Great product, easy on and off.

I have to say that this is a sweet little guitar. It plays way above its price class and comes beautifully set up. I have more expensive Gibson and Fender guitars and this plays just as nice as they do. It doesn't have the premium feel of those guitars but it still feels right in a very basic way. It's light, handy and has a fast neck. This would be a great choice for a beginner, a guitar that is setup properly from the start. I've been playing for more than 50 years and find this little gem to be an awesome guitar that just happens to be cheap. Great instrument to mod but you can play it right out of the box.

I've played my Les Paul thru it, my classical/electric thru it, sang thru it & listened to YouTube thru it. This EON is incredible. The 8" woofers put out ear-piercing 300 watts of sound. Plenty for any backyard party or indoor party. The settings include reverb for balancing any tone needed. Even though you can play your electric axe thru it, the EON is not designed for this. My Les Paul sounded too bright, even after adjusting the EQ settings. You can get by if you need a quick plug-in to work on a song without plugging into another amp. Each channel has its own settings. The EON is very portable & snaps together nicely in a suitcase-style fashion, making it easy to carry, set up & take down. The headphone input is nice & puts out great sound, just like the speakers. I keep the mixer & speakers apart in the bedroom for solitude practicing & listening to YouTube. Then, I just snap it all together & go. When I discovered this had Bluetooth, I was sold right there! You can play along with any song thru your mobile device. The Bluetooth does not interfere with my XViVe U2 wireless transmitter & receiver. Vocally, the sounds are awsum, too. The accompanying AKG vocal mic works brilliantly! The speakers have a 38mm pole socket for mounting onto speaker poles for maximum outreach. They're also light enough to sit on any cabinet or table. The 2 speaker cables, wall cable, AKG mic & mic cord all fit in a nice, stow-away compartment behind the mixer. Bottom line: I recommend this for any singer-songwriter, DJ, or party host. The price is worth it with the Bluetooth capability.

I finally decided to upgrade my Paul Buff beauty dish because of uneven lighting I was getting and narrowed it down to the Speedotron and Mola dishes. They're very similar but I decided to go with the Mola and don't regret it. Have been very happy with the results so far.

This is a very nicely made bag. However, it is about a half inch (diameter) too small to use for my Paul C Buff Beauty Dish reflector. Reluctantly, I had to return it. I would have been very pleased to keep it. The diameter of my reflector is 22-1/4ins.

I use this dish with an Einstein 640 WS. I used to have the original Paul C Buff white beauty dish but it was damaged while traveling. I replaced it with the later Buff beauty dish but I hated it because it felt cheap, I didn't like the flat rear panel and the deflector plate fixed on to the umbrella mount!So I opted for this Impact 20 - I would've gone for the 22 but it wasn't on sale and I'd rather have the extra $ than 2 of aluminum! Besides, the results really are marginal if you compare the 20 to the 22 but if you really think size matters just edge it an inch closer to your subject and nobody will know - just ask any Profoto beauty dish user!

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Third Fuji 100 for me . I have loved them all from the first sexy retro one to my black beauty of this 100V . For me the kinks taken out of the software menu really count . But the physical aspects of the V version are superb . It feels and works in my hand so well and produces photos that stun me . I have Nikon’s ( D850 , D500 ... ) and it’s a treat to drop the size and weight and shoot with this Fuji ... with little loss of joy at all .

Silver gelatin prints are the benchmark for black and white photos due to their longevity and beauty, however if you don't need your prints to last hundreds of years and the beauty of your prints is most important to you, I recommend Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta Glossy Fine Art paper at 315GSM. I find that archival pigment prints on this Hahnemuhle sheet are virtually visibly indistinguishable from Silver Gelatin prints. As far as the cost are concerned an 8 1/2 x 11 Hahnemuhle sheet of paper is less than $2.50, and when the cost of ink is added the total cost of the print is approximately $5 versus Silver gelatin at $60-$70 plus cost for shipping. I am using both processes depending on my final goals.

Attach this beauty to your Black Rapid FastenR-2 or 3 (or the original ConnectR) and voila, you can easily move your strap between different sides of a L-bracket mounted camera or a lens-foot. (In other words, immediate repositioning where your stap attaches, depending on the lens and its weight and the camera and its configuration - with battery pack or not, etc.) I had considered using some blue loctite but have found my FastenR-3 is so snug against this clamp, I don't need the loctite. Anyway, well made and substantial clamp (as I have found most Kirk products to be).