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Review on 12"X56" Softbox With Beauty Dish Design, Soft Diffuser, Speedring Bracket, And Grid/Eggcrate Set For Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT, 580EX II, 430EX II, And More By Pro Studio Solutions by Ismael Hennigan

Revainrating 4 out of 5

It's a great cheap alternative strip box, could use some improvements though.

I really wanted to be able to give this a 5 star review but with having to tweak this unit just to get it to work right lost it a star. When I received mine and set it up for the first time I noticed that it wasn't quite straight. I had to spend some time tweaking the rods a little to get it to be a little more uniform.The features:Beauty Dish: great idea, poor execution. They didn't bother to include a way to secure it into position. I had to use a couple of clothes pins to hold in place, my other clamps were too cumbersome, clothes pins fit the bill well.Umbrella style: opens like an umbrella and works great as far as that goes.Mine came with the speedring for the bowens and also had an Einstein/AlienBee speedring attached to the setup, so I got both. It was a nice surprise as I needed both anyway. It's pretty easy to swap out the rings also.This is a nice and easy/quick setup option for those that don't want to have to spend 10 minutes setting up just one box. Then you can go with the cheaper units but this is about as good as you are going to get for this price range and the purpose these are intended for. I wish they would release a properly fitting grid for it though. If it wasn't for all the little things that I had to fix I would have given it a higher rating but I didn't have any other option. Still a good buy though.

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Pros
  • The soft diffuser included ensures evenly distributed and soft lighting for a natural-looking image
Cons
  • May produce unwanted hot spots or shadows

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