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: a device that utilizes a flash tube for high-speed illumination (as in photography)
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Fans of flash photography may want to stretch their budget to get the $100 Camp Snap Pro for its more powerful xenon strobe, but the Camp Snap 2 does more than enough for $70 to earn our Editors' Choice award for inexpensive point-and-shoot cameras.
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Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 2 June 2026
Little happens other than chain-smoking, costume changes and interminable shots of color-shifting strobe lighting splaying across the cast’s cheekbones.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2026
The film is stylized to the point of abstraction; the production budget in glitter, tinfoil, transparent plastics, strobes, smoke machines and red or blue lighting gels must have exceeded everything else.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
The song’s frenetic pace was complemented by some wild strobe effects, while parts of the performance seemed to evoke the work of one of Wilson’s predecessors (and tonights’s ACM Awards host), Shania Twain.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2026
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Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 2 June 2026
Little happens other than chain-smoking, costume changes and interminable shots of color-shifting strobe lighting splaying across the cast’s cheekbones.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2026
The film is stylized to the point of abstraction; the production budget in glitter, tinfoil, transparent plastics, strobes, smoke machines and red or blue lighting gels must have exceeded everything else.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
The song’s frenetic pace was complemented by some wild strobe effects, while parts of the performance seemed to evoke the work of one of Wilson’s predecessors (and tonights’s ACM Awards host), Shania Twain.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2026
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“Strobe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strobe. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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strobe
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: a device that produces a very brief strong flash of light (as for photography) and that can be used repeatedly
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