Hey Everyone,
I bought an Eli 44cm Silver BD, with a Honeycomb grid. A little history here: I live in Shanghai and ordered this dish because they were also selling a grid with it. Ordered form the official Eli distributor in the mainland. I like the small size and always wanted to get it, but was afraid of not being able to 'grid' it - so lo and behold I took the leap when I saw this. It's not on their official China Elinchrom site, but it is on their 'Taobao' site which is the Chinese equivalent of Fleabay.
I took a few crappy pics (apologize in advance), but I was excited to share this with the board. This isn't any attempt at a technical study - as I'm technically challenged to begin with 
1) Set - they threw in this DVD too:
2) The grid is attached to the dish by three latches like so:
3) Grid attached to dish. As you see, its not very snug - part hardware issue and partly because of the lack on an interior ledge for it to sit on. And of course the edge of the beauty dish is rounded so it can't really sit flush straight out of the box:
4) Test shot : Mounted on Quadra 1m from wall - with only gold reflector:
5) Test shot: same as above , except with grid. I'm assuming since it's not so snug that its causing that weird texture from the honeycomb as it feathers out?
6) Here's a close up of how the grid fits on the dish. As you can see its not a perfect fit and will require a little DIY - I'm hoping some of you guys can chime in on some suggestions. I'm sure gaff tape can remedy it real quick, but any thoughts on a more elegant solution?
I'm thinking about gluing a thin rubber 'gasket' around the rear face of the grid.
