Tiny speedlight beauty dish

[Jannie]

Wandering around my camera store today I spotted one of these setups and had to ask. It's made by Interfit and is very nice, it's a rubberized or thick vinyl unit that slips over the head of the flash and then you adapt various accessories to it. The store only had large kits with a whole bunch of toys for $129.00 and all I was interested in was just this unit. I'm not even sure other than another option for a way to use a speedlight, I'm finding I'm using them a fair amount doing table top now, in addition to my large Octoboxes so I thought I might give one a try.

The reflector part is solid, not translucent and the reflector is a very nice stippled white. They make the adaptor part for a bunch of different flash heads but I'm wondering if the one for the Canon 550/580EX will fit the 580EXII, I would imagine it does. For $38 for both parts it seems worth the experimentation.

I did find it in parts at Adorama:
http://www.adorama.com/PASGM400.html?searchinfo=Interfit
http://www.adorama.com/PASTR102.html?searchinfo=Interfit

[Paul Li]

Tell us how it goes. Would be cool to see sample pics taken with this as the only light.

In the meantime, check this out...
www.knick-knack.com/howto/camera/diy-beauty-dish.html

Never seen sample pics with that thing, but I'm willing to try it out...

[Jannie]

I'm playing with the idea, will think about it overnight, mostly want to see what it'll do with product photography when I want a small source, I've got the Lumiquest which works very well but this really caught my fascination.

[TMR Design]

Since I know you understand light and the effect of a small light source vs. a large light source then I would say that if those devices give you even light and coverage then, as a small, hard light source it could be very interesting and similar to using a 7" reflector on a strobe.

[ccp900]

problem with the DIY ones, theres no math when they made it....its true that the way these items are made came with math computation to make sure that light is even with no hotspot correct? that would mean knowing the mathematical formula for best placement of the inner reflector, the size of the inner reflector vs the size of the dish, the depth of the dish etc etc etc....

[Paul Li]

There's not much you could lose from the one above ;)

[TMR Design]

problem with the DIY ones, theres no math when they made it....its true that the way these items are made came with math computation to make sure that light is even with no hotspot correct? that would mean knowing the mathematical formula for best placement of the inner reflector, the size of the inner reflector vs the size of the dish, the depth of the dish etc etc etc....

There's no math involved in many DIY light modifiers and some of them are wonderful. Not everything has to follow the rules or math and science to work well.