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(More customer reviews)When I saw this, I was excited. Here was a nice looking beauty dish complete with a full sized honeycomb filter for my 580EXII. It had the hardware, it was something I could use in front of clients rather than a DIY dish.
I got it yesterday and tried to set up my flash. First thing I noticed after seeing the mounting hardware was that there was no parts list. (There were two sets of metal washers, 2 sets of plastic washers and one knob. I couldn't see anything that required two knobs so i wondered if it was a spare set. I still don't know. Of course there are no directions either. Not even a diagram.
I put it together by using the product pics on the page. After playing with it for a while, I managed to get the assembly onto a stand, with my 580 on the cold shoe. There is an order u must follow to be able to mount the flash to a receiver, mount he receiver to the shoe, attach the assembly to the dish, adjust the flash position and tighten the ball joints.
The cold shoe, is extremely flimsy and tends to tighten to a degree before loosening again. (Almost like it is stripped.)
The dish is large and heavy and puts a strain on the ball joints so they must be very tight or the dish will simply flop down or to the side. The flash can be adjusted to be outside of the dish to inside of the dish but you will need to block the open area with some sort of dark cloth to prevent light from being lost out of the back of the dish.
Maybe it's from the DIY plans I saw but I expected the inside dish to be more of a mirror but the metal reflects the light fine. What confused me was that the reflector dish was positioned with the concave side facing back to the flash. I expected the opposite so the light would reflect in a wider pattern and fill the outer dish before being reduced by the honeycomb.
I took away one star because of its total lack of even the slightest information (like a parts list) so I'd know what those extra part s were for. I took another one away because of the undersized knobs for tightening the head to keep the dish steady.
I don't expect to get a lot of life from this equipment. And while it didn't cost $250+ like other dishes it's not THAT cheap at $90.
At least I have a functional beauty dish that I can use with my off camera flashes.
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This is the perfect accessory for the portrait photographer. The beauty dish has an internal light shield that allows bounce-only lighting. This provides high output making it a perfect soft light source for portraits. It will also provide moderate round catch lights in the eyes where a softbox will yield larger rectangular catch lights. It also comes with a front cover diffuser for softer looks. This Beauty dish is made of 100% aluminum with superior design. Ideal for all flashes with hotshoe mounts.
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