Westcott Rapid Box 36" or Elinchrom Deep Octa 39" output

Just checking to see if anyone had experience with both. I'm sure they both are very good, which is why I'm mostly curious about the light output/efficiency compared to each other.

If you have any other comments about material quality, on location use (I'll be using it for environmental portraits indoors and outdoors without assistants) or anything else, please comment. I'll be using it with Elinchrom Pro HD 500 and 1000 units.

Thanks,
Roma

Elinchrom all the way. There's something special about the diffusion material they use. Gives such great light.

Reviving this old thread because I'd like to see more people with the experience using either or both to comment.

I do like the Cheetahstand RiceBowls. Check out their RB90. Includes grid.

(I am an Elinchrom only strobist)

Angmo wrote in post #18223367
I do like the Cheetahstand RiceBowls. Check out their RB90. Includes grid.

(I am an Elinchrom only strobist)

That interests me for my indoor use. I'm also looking for an outdoor, on location use with quick, umbrella-like set up and take down. My current front runner for that is Westcott Rapid Box 36".

SYS wrote in post #18223449
That interests me for my indoor use. I'm also looking for an outdoor, on location use with quick, umbrella-like set up and take down. My current front runner for that is Westcott Rapid Box 36".

Ive used the RB90 outdoors, but I have an SUV and it fit assembled ready to go.

For outdoors, I use mostly metal dishes out to 27". I particularly like the Elinchrom 16" "Fireball" outdoors. Basically no wind problems with larger metal dishes like you can get with softboxes.

Angmo wrote in post #18223476
Ive used the RB90 outdoors, but I have an SUV and it fit assembled ready to go.

For outdoors, I use mostly metal dishes out to 27". I particularly like the Elinchrom 16" "Fireball" outdoors. Basically no wind problems with larger metal dishes like you can get with softboxes.

Thanks, I'll take a look at the "Fireball."

SYS wrote in post #18223486
Thanks, I'll take a look at the "Fireball."

FYI. THE Fireball thread.

You will be required to submit or face extinction.

https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1126440

Angmo wrote in post #18223513
FYI. THE Fireball thread.

You will be required to submit or face extinction.

https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1126440

Read the first few pages and then looked at a bunch of photo samples with inconsistent results, some excellent, some meh... I gather that it's something you'd have to get used to its intricacies. I'm intrigued.

The Fireball is awesome, but it's a totally different animal than the DO 39. It all depends on what you're trying to do.

SYS wrote in post #18223525
I gather that it's something you'd have to get used to its intricacies. I'm intrigued.

Not unlike any light modifier, they all require time to get to know.

windpig wrote in post #18223536
Not unlike any light modifier, they all require time to get to know.

My avatar to the left used it. That was a 5:00am shoot. Used the Fireball as fill though. Other metal modifiers did the lions share. All with grids. Flip through a lot more of that thread. Some really nice pics there.

chris_holtmeier wrote in post #17643491
Elinchrom all the way. There's something special about the diffusion material they use. Gives such great light.

Huum, would love to see side by side with Elinchrom, SP System, and others similar modifiers. In the end it would be pretty same IMHO. And if one checks the deep octa threads, they talk about peeling silver interior. I have SP SyStems 37" octa, almost exact copy, check Dave's (tetrode) thread.

There is a korean company also, the name is escaping me, read some nice reviews.

What I want is this cheaper parabolix for the studio

http://www.parabolixli​ght.com/parabolix45

I have a 37" Deep SP System Octa (which I don't use anymore), but my 39" Rota is the shallow. I've got a 70" Fotodiox and a 69" Rota I can compare side by side.

bobbyz wrote in post #18223606
Huum, would love to see side by side with Elinchrom, SP System, and others similar modifiers. In the end it would be pretty same IMHO. And if one checks the deep octa threads, they talk about peeling silver interior. I have SP SyStems 37" octa, almost exact copy, check Dave's (tetrode) thread.

There is a korean company also, the name is escaping me, read some nice reviews.

What I want is this cheaper parabolix for the studio

http://www.parabolixli​ght.com/parabolix45

Korean mfg:
Aurora
SMDV
Rimelite

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