How To Set Up Your Pixapro Collapsible Beauty Dish
How To Set Up Your Pixapro Collapsible Beauty Dish
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60cm (23.6") Collapsible Portable White Beauty Dish S-Type
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Portrait and Dance Photographer Carmel Jane demonstrates how she uses the PIXAPRO Collapsible Beauty Dish for a studio headshot.
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The PIXAPRO 60cm foldable beauty dishes allow you to take a small to full-sized white/silver beauty dish with you on location without the worrying the weight and size of traditional metal beauty dishes.
Featuring a unique inner locking ring design, the Folding Beauty Dish lets you quickly set up and pack away.
The Beauty dish creates a unique lighting pattern on the subject offering a round catch light in the eye of the subject, often used in fashion and the beauty industries to create excellent skin tones which are soft and uniform. It is a device used to create soft light it works by using a parabolic reflector to distribute light towards a focal point. The light created is between that of a direct flash and a softbox, hence giving the image of a wrapped, contrasted look, which adds a very dramatic effect.
Included with each beauty dish is a removable diffuser to create a softer quality of light, and a fine 4cm honeycomb grid to help with the light spill.
Features
- Collapses down into a small carry bag for easy transportation
- Lighter and less bulky than a traditional beauty dish
- Comes with front Diffuser and 4cm Honeycomb Grid giving you a variety of lighting possibilities
- Detachable reflector dish.
- Bowens S-Type Fitting.
- Ideal for portrait and fashion photographs
What’s In the Box
- 1x Collapsible Portable Beauty Dish with 4cm Grid
Specifications
| Diameter | 60cm |
| Inner Colour | White |
| Fitting | Bowens S-Type |
| Compatibility | Bowens, Lencarta, Lastolite, Interfit (Venus, Stellar & Pro Series) plus many other lights with an S-Type fitting |
| Grid Size | 4cm |
| Depth | 20cm |
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Q&A’s
What is the difference between the collapsible beauty dish and standard beauty dish?
The main differences are the procedure for setting up the beauty dish, the sizes available and honeycomb grid included.
The Collapsible Beauty Dishes is foldable and compact which makes it easy to carry around. Here is a YouTube video which may give you a better ideal on how the collapsible beauty dish works.
How To Set Up Your Pixapro Collapsible Beauty Dish
To set up the Beauty Dish, you simply have to push down each rod until they lock into place. To fold the Collapsible Beauty down you would again just need to push down on each rod and release the locking mechanism. The grid with this will also have a much larger spread compared to that of the standard version, the small the spread of the honeycomb the more direct the light becomes.
Please kindly find the following review by Ian Pack for the collapsible Beauty dish test shot.
http://ianpack.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/pixapro-portable-beauty-dish.html
The standard version of the beauty dish will be made of solid metal, which means that minimal setting up is required. This type of beauty dish is great if you are using it in a fixed location or studio, simply attach is to your light and you’re away. The honeycomb grid of this beauty dish gives you more of a directional light as the honeycomb is much smaller than the fabric version.
What is the difference between the collapsible beauty dish and standard beauty dish?
The main differences are the procedure for setting up the beauty dish, the sizes available and honeycomb grid included.
The Collapsible Beauty Dishes is foldable and compact which makes it easy to carry around. Here is a YouTube video which may give you a better ideal on how the collapsible beauty dish works.
How To Set Up Your Pixapro Collapsible Beauty Dish
To set up the Beauty Dish, you simply have to push down each rod until they lock into place. To fold the Collapsible Beauty down you would again just need to push down on each rod and release the locking mechanism. The grid with this will also have a much larger spread compared to that of the standard version, the small the spread of the honeycomb the more direct the light becomes.
Please kindly find the following review by Ian Pack for the collapsible Beauty dish test shot.
http://ianpack.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/pixapro-portable-beauty-dish.html
The standard version of the beauty dish will be made of solid metal, which means that minimal setting up is required. This type of beauty dish is great if you are using it in a fixed location or studio, simply attach is to your light and you’re away. The honeycomb grid of this beauty dish gives you more of a directional light as the honeycomb is much smaller than the fabric version.
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Product Reviews
PIXAPRO Collapsible Portable Beauty Dish Review
The Pixapro collapsible beauty dish is a versatile lighting accessory that is just the right size for location use. Assembly is trivial and there are a range of lighting configurations possible thanks to the various accessories and features. Output in beauty dish mode, with the deflector, is a good approximation to that “beauty dish look” many of us seek, without the weight and bulk of a rigid metal modifier. It also works well as a portable softbox. Build quality is good, though the deflector is the weakest point of the product; as well as being a little imprecise to align, it cannot be moved further inwards or outwards, which could be desirable for some users.
Overall, this is an excellent modifier for photographers using portable flash. As a grid, carrying case and front diffuser are all included in the box, this can easily become your go-to location modifier. I will certainly be putting mine to good use.
Review by Lighting Rumours, Editor David A. Selby
To see the full review please go to the following link below:
http://www.lightingrumours.com/pixapro-beauty-dish-7188
PIXAPRO 60cm Collapsible Portable White Beauty Dish S-Type
With it being collapsible storage is much easier, once you get used to how putting it up and taking it down it is a joy to use.
Excellent professional service fast delivery
Excellent professional service fast delivery
Appears to be a well made product.
Appears to be a well made product. Will see how it lasts.
Lightweight, convenient, great light quality. Just buy one.
I'd had my eye on the Pixapro collapsible BD for a year or so before I finally got one. I've just put it through its paces on a paid gym photoshoot with a speedlite firing through it, and I have to say it was an absolute pleasure to use.
Although not quite as fast as opening and closing an umbrella, assembly and pack up is still pretty rapid; the little cylinder-shaped pack it comes in is great for transportation. The weight is a shade over 800 grams but most of that comes from the metal Bowens mount; it puts way less strain on my cheap stand and boom arm and is much easier to control in use than my old all-metal dish. Best of all, the quality of light it produces is very good, in fact I'd say it beats my (admittedly low end) metal BD, which I'm now flogging.
If you're swithering between getting one of these or a budget all-metal dish, don't. Just get this one. At the price I paid (£65) it's a little more expensive, but that's more than compensated for by the convenience and ease of use.
Review taken from PIXAPRO Amazon Store.
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