Silva’s updated Free headlamps light the way to a dawn shoot

The clocks go back soon, and for landscape photographers that means the good light and the walk to reach it now happen in the dark at both ends of the day. Silva has updated its Free headlamp series with five activity-specific models, higher outputs and a new Speed Mode, and while they’re pitched at runners and cyclists, they solve a problem I hit on almost every dawn shoot. Details are on Silva’s site. Why a runner’s headlamp is a photographer’s headlamp The gear that keeps you safe running a trail before sunrise is the same gear that gets you to a viewpoint for first light. You’ve got a bag and a tripod in your hands, you’re on uneven ground in the dark, and you need to see where you’re putting your feet without stopping to hold a torch. A proper headlamp is the answer, and the brighter, longer-burning ones built...