![]() If you want to try the Pixelstick out for yourself, it’s available for rental at our store for as low as $3 a day. Is it something I would purchase? Probably not, but I will definitely use it again in the future. If you are looking for something to spice up your relationship with photography this will do it. This is a tool that is fun to play with and can give cool effects for portraiture and timelapse. At $350 to buy, the system feels cheaply made. The plastic body feels a little flimsy for the price. Works as advertised, and once figured out, pretty easy to use.A really fun tool that opens up your creativity when shooting at night.This is not the type of product, though, that needs to take much abuse so it didn’t worry me too much. See more ideas about pixelstick, light painting, photography. The handle itself was not very secure which left me worried I would accidentally fling the whole stick into the air. Explore Ruth Daly's board 'Pixelstick Photography', followed by 156 people on Pinterest. Multiple times during use I had to stop and tighten a knob here, or pick up a fallen piece there. It’s clear that this is a simple and cheaply made product. ![]() My only gripe about the Pixelstick is the build quality. For example, this image of Chuck Norris hanging out by the Mississippi River…realistic, no? Okay maybe I struggled a bit with that one, but it gave me a good laugh. Light Painting and Pixelstick are technologies enabling to create colourful light effects in the photo. The Pixelstick is also really great for seamlessly adding images into a long exposure. I’m not sure what a “serious” application would be for the Pixelstick, so I basically started using it as a coloring tool… The Pixelstick isn’t exactly high powered, but I was able to use it as a light source for an interesting effect on my 1994 Geo Tracker. If you are working by yourself you will want to use a wireless remote and of course, a tripod. There are menu adjustments on the stick for brightness and speed, which can be balanced with the environment and speed of the Pixelstick motion. If you don’t have photo editing software that can make these changes Pixelstick has provided an online link to drag and drop your own files to be quickly converted to the appropriate format. There are some specific image requirements the Pixelstick can read 24-bit BMP images, 200px in height, turned 90° counter-clockwise. The user can choose between several programmed patterns or download original images onto a sd card and insert them directly into the pixel stick. The Pixelstick LED Lightpainting Tool is an aluminum stick with 200 programmable led lights used for light painting in long exposures or time lapse. I never knew I wanted to try light painting until I saw this video for the Pixelstick, and it took several tries before I could pry it out of the hands of my coworkers. ![]() The neat thing about the pixelstick is that you can program it to create any light pattern you want, in fact, you can even use it to create light painted pictures. The pixelstick is a product designed and produced by bitbanger labs, following a successful Kickstarter fundraising campaign. ![]() So obviously they are still innovating and coming up with new ideas and products.Once in a while a product will come out that looks so fun everyone wants to try it. The pixelstick is the result of the inevitable evolution of light painting, and the advancement of technology. With my luck I would buy the thing and a week later it would drop to $250 and a new better version would be announced.Īnyone heard any rumors or announcements like this? I believe this is the same company that just put out the color spike. No significant price drop? And related, could a version 2.0 be on the horizon? So I’m looking around at videos and reviews of it and I start to wonder, This has been out for 5 years. (I’m sure I can find a couple times a year I can make a few dollars with it)Īnyway, last couple weeks I’m thinking “ah, I’ll just get the thing”. But nothing at night time that could really take advantage of it. I am a professional videographer at a marketing company and take photos as well. The price tag held me back as I would mostly be using it for my own personal enjoyment. I’ve been hemming and hawing about getting the pixel stick ever since it was on Kickstarter. ![]()
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