On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 20, 2012, at 5:39 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> >> A gridded striplight is a very dramatic lighting tool. Essential for >> doing the body light-sculpture kind of thing. > > Striplight, not softbox? Can one use some black fabric (or aluminum foil) to > turn a softbox into a striplight?
A striplight is in fact a softbox, but a particularly narrow one. Eg: 1 foot by 4 or 6 feet. Yes, you could baffle your normal softbox to make a striplight out of it. That's the sort of thing that Benjamin Kanarek (an old PDMLer) does. He wrote it up in a tutorial here ... http://www.benjaminkanarekblog.com/2009/12/28/kinds-lighting-accessories-needed-sculpt-light-part-1/ >> Larry, be sure and check out http://fotodioxpro.com/ for info too. > > Good point, they've got more details there. It's weird that they have > separate speedrings for alienbees and for white lightnings, and other > companies don't. Maybe they just wanted to reduce confusion by listing both even though they are aliases for the same thing. >> The eggcrates are velcro'ed such that they adhere to the inside lip of >> the softbox. They should be compatible. Even my $50 folding Fotodiox >> 24" speedlight softbox has the requisite velcro although I don't have >> an eggcrate for it. > > Their pictures on amazon show the eggcrates for all of them, whether they > come with eggcrates or not. Yeah, the Amazon listings are damned confusing. :-/ -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
