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Profoto has announced the Pro-D3 monolight, a professional-grade light designed to be durable and performant enough for even the most demanding, high-volume photographers.

After focusing only on supporting the art of still photography for more than 55 years, Profoto is developing a new line of LED lights and "light shaping tools" for use in the cinema market.

Profoto's new range of softboxes, aptly named the "Profoto Softbox" series, is designed for the company's larger and more powerful lights, the B, D, and Pro series. With a built-in speedring and collapsible design, the new softboxes are ready to use "within seconds."

Profoto is expanding its software solutions with Assetflow, a new workflow management tool designed to support e-commerce studios and streamline collaboration through an entire creative process.

Profoto has announced the Control Desktop App for macOS that gives Apple computers Bluetooth control of up to 100 Air 2 compatible light and trigger channels.

Most people today own a smartphone with a camera that they bring with them everywhere they go. These state-of-the-art mobile cameras arguably make everyone a photographer (in some sense of the word).

Profoto has announced the A2 monolight off-camera flash that is about the size of a 12-ounce can of soda. The small and portable strobe is billed as ideal for supporting location shoots like weddings, awards ceremonies, or other events.

Profoto has announced the Connect Pro, its latest generation trigger that is capable of controlling 100 channels that each host six groups: three for TTL and three for manual control.

Yesterday, Profoto announced that it had acquired the robotic, automated photography studio company StyleShoots for $18 million. After hearing feedback, the company's CEO promises that the goal isn't to put photographers out of business.

Profoto has announced that it has acquired StyleShoots, the makers of hardware and software solutions that completely eliminate the need for a camera crew and deliver finished e-commerce fashion photos through an automated, robotic photo studio.

Profoto has announced the new Clic Softbox Octa, a collapsible and magnetic octagonal softbox that is compatible with the company's A and C-series strobes as well as with any other Clic light-shaping tools.

When Profoto released the B10 and B10 Plus, they made headlines for how portable and powerful they were. That was 2018. In 2021, Profoto takes the concept of a portable powerful battery-powered strobe further by launching the B10X and B10X Plus.

Nikon has announced a partnership with lighting manufacturers Nissin and Profoto, but it's not clear what that might mean for customers.

Profoto has announced the B10X and B10X Plus strobes that are designed to be multipurpose lighting devices. While the strobe power remains the same, Profoto has increased the modeling lamp's output by 30%.

Crazy. Ambitious. Innovative. While those may not be the first three words that come to mind when you hear about the iPhone 12 Pro Max and Profoto Pro-11, they are precisely what I think this pairing comes down to.

After over half a century as a privately-held business, the Swedish lighting company Profoto went public today, listing its shares on the Nasdaq Stockholm stock exchange. As a public company, Profoto is now required to publicly disclose its financial performance for the first time.

Profoto has been slowly adapting its products to work more seamlessly with mobile devices and it has built on top of that with the launch of the Profoto Camera app. Separate from the Profoto Control app, the Profoto Camera app is both for lighting control and photo capture that includes a new RAW format.

Profoto has updated its Pro-10 studio pack to the Pro-11 with a few under-the-hood upgrades like a new set of sounds, a new motherboard, and better short circuit protection, but the main new feature is support for AirX, the company's Bluetooth sync tech that allows smartphones to use strobes.

Profoto continues to push its support for smartphones with the launch of AirX Smart-TTL support in the Profoto Camera Android app. Available now in beta, the app allows you to use select Profoto lights in combination with your Android smartphone.

Profoto got into the speedlight game in recent years with its $1,100 A10 and $900 A1X flashes, and now it has unveiled the OCF Adapter: $300 light stand and modifier mount for those products. For a company often derided for its high prices, its latest is may be seen as very much on brand.

Profoto has just unveiled the latest iteration of the A1 series of round-head speedlights. First came the Profoto A1, then the Profoto A1X, and now the company has unveiled the Profoto A10: basically an A1X with Bluetooth and "AirX" technology built in.

Over the last few years, several companies have been actively producing accessories for smartphones. The majority of these accessories have been for iPhones and for the most part the accessories haven’t been overly significant devices. What I mean is that the accessories most manufacturers produced have been small LED flashes or add-on lenses. This seems to be changing with what Profoto has done and I wonder if this is the right direction for the market.

Profoto has just announced (in their words) "an innovation that rewrites the rules of photography." Thanks to a technology called Profoto AirX, the company has made their B10 flash series compatible with the iPhone, allowing mobile photographers to use a Xenon flash to its full potential "for the first time in history."

LA wedding photographer and educator Michael Anthony has released a detailed side-by-side comparison of the recently announced Godox AD300 Pro (Flashpoint XPLOR 300 Pro) and the much more expensive Profoto B10. The two lights share similar power output and a similar footprint, but vastly different price points. Is the Profoto simply overpriced, or does the Godox fall short?

Profoto has finally announced Android support for the battery-powered B10 and B10 Plus monolights, giving Android users control over almost all of their flash settings via the free Profoto Control app.

If you want to piss off a majority of professional photographers, show them a smartphone camera rig setup and explain how great it is. Better yet, show them an article about an iPhone-only wedding photographer. I've seen this reaction countless times, and it's especially prevalent when you look at smartphone photography accessories.