OctaMonster
A few months ago I purchased a 200cm soft box that I have lovingly named The OctaMonster. At over 6 feet in diameter, the thing is a beast. One of the immediate problems that I discovered was that the octa would not fit securely to the monolight. I have several of Paul Buff’s UZ1600s and the 4 prong fitting was not strong enough to hold the octa. Actually, it would hold, but a butterfly fart could knock it off. So I designed a bracket that allowed the octa to hold the light rather than the light holding the octa. Works great.
The softbox in the image is only a 32″ octa… I just didn’t want to drag the OctaMonster out of the bag. You can click on any image for a larger view.
Nice work Ziv….
We have some brackets in production that can be configured much like this. We use a flat insert we produce to get the flash tube forward into the modifier. I’ve been tossing around the idea of making a version for the PCB folding boxes. They are not very secure either because the added hardware to make it fold like a umbrella adds a lot of weight.
Hey Jerry
I’ve seen that. Great idea for the beauty dishes!
For those of you not familiar with Kacey Interprises, Jerry designs and manufactures the VERY popular pole adapter. It is an adapter to go from baby pin to paint pole. … clever and well made.
Jerry is too much of a gentleman to post links to his site so I’ll do it for him
The above mention beauty dish bracket:
http://www.kaceyenterprises.com/?page_id=481
Baby pin to paint pole adapter:
http://www.kaceyenterprises.com/?page_id=447
Thanks for the comment
Ziv