When most photographers think about getting a continuous light, the first thing that comes to mind will probably be a single-source unit that looks like a continuous version of the studio flash heads we’ve been using for years. This made a lot of sense when the lamps used for continuous lighting were tungsten or halogen, but in these days of LED light we have many more options. We looked at the tube form-factor a while ago with the Nanlite PavoTube ll 60C which, even without its funky colour possibilities, offers a long thin source that creates a very different look.
Light panels have been a feature of the lighting scene for a decade or more, but previously they have been either expensive and large, or small and weak. In recent times, though, the sector has developed and now plenty of manufacturers are
