Bron Elektronik is a manufacturer of flash

Flash (photography)

A flash is a device used in photography producing a flash of artificial light at a color temperature of about 5500 K to help illuminate a scene. A major purpose of a flash is to illuminate a dark scene. Other uses are capturing quickly moving objects or changing the quality of light...

 equipment for photography

Photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

. It is located in Allschwil

Allschwil

Allschwil is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.-Prehistoric Allschwil:The region around Allschwil has been occupied since at least the Middle Paleolithic. Archeological finds from the municipality include a few scattered Middle Paleolithic...

 in Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

. Bron manufactures the Broncolor and Visatec lines of strobes. The Broncolor line includes studio systems with separate power packs and heads, as well as monolight

Monolight

A monolight is a self-contained photographic flash lighting unit usually found in a studio. Each monolight has its own independent power source. It does not depend on a centralized power supply as a "pack and head" system does. Monolights are also independently controlled: each has its own power...

s; Visatec concentrates on monolights and also markets battery packs for portability. Both lines include light modifiers. The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography describes Broncolor as "the leading Swiss manufacturer" of generator flash systems.

The flagship of the Broncolor line is the Scoro A4S. Columnist Dan Havlik subjected this power-pack system to an in-depth review in Photo District News

Photo District News

Photo District News is an American monthly trade publication for professional photographers. PDN was first published in 1980. The publication takes its name from New York City's photo district, an area of photo businesses that was once located in Flatiron District.Originally named New York Photo...

. The Scoro Line garnered the 2009 Technical Image Press Association

Technical Image Press Association

- Technical Image Press Association:The Technical Image Press Association is an international, non-profit association advocating the interests of the photography and imaging magazine publishing industry...

(TIPA) award for Best Studio Generator.