Should I bend the metal wires holding softbox? Light bulbs touch the silver part of softbox.
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They should bend to slip into place and hold the soft box material taught. I couldn't get mine to fit when I got it, so I had to carefully hacksaw off about a 1/4 inch of each rod. Be careful if you do this, you don't want to take too much off or you'll be screwed. The top light snaps into place like an umbrella and no trimming or bending is needed.
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Wire nuts. That's it. Be careful when you wire the fixture, these bulbs have a bright side and a dark side, and you just can't flip them over. Make sure that the "hot" pin (110v) is in the correct position for the bright side of the bulb to be facing out from the fixture...
631970
If your adjusting your bed alot I'd be causious. Their are wires in it and the more you bend the wires the better chance of causing a short.
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I know what you mean. After using the softbox, there seems to be no problems with the bracket getting in the way of the light. When you fire that flash, The light is bouncing and spreading every where. I just used it to photograph about 80 individual children at a fall fest. Everything went great.
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It depends, I would choose the softboxes for most of the situations, because you can set them up when lighting bigger spaces/subjects with a more diffuse light.
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I am not sure what you mean by a metal one but I have used this soft box with 3xCanon 580ex speedlights with PocketWizard flextt5 attached with a tri flash mount. This soft box is as sturdy as any other name brand on the market for a fraction of the cost.
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All three units come with both, but fair warning - the elastic strands on the inner panels which have the velcro pads on the end to attach to the inside of the softbox are very low quality, and degrade VERY quickly from the UV output of the bulbs. I ended up letting the elastic fail entirely (after about three months light usage), and then simply tied loops in the remaining nylon core strands to shorten them with no elasticity. They work absolutely fine that way, and I'd not consider the problem a deal breaker at all, just a minor one-time inconvenience.
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So from my experience, as well as from some of the reviews, this light is good only if you get the correct parts which it seems like doesn't always happen. I'm not sure why the company only gives you pictures on how to set up a softbox....which really isn't rocket science. It should have pictures on how to mount the light in the event that a part was not manufactured properly (as is the case with me so they're sending me a replacement piece). Call the company. They'll help you out.
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This bar in particular has a positive and negative bare wire coming out of the light. Your rigid light bars are gonna be the ones with a plug primarily
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Spend enough money, and you can make anything fit. But, no, there is no inexpensive way to attach them. My softbox comes with its own lighting system.
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I had to have my neighbor help me. I put the rods in opposite each other and the last one she pushed the softbox in while I bent the rod and secured it. It took a few tries.
712010
That's exactly what I did! No, not at all. The lights are as small as drops of water, and right on the copper wire. Hope that helped!
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The hard thing would be supporting this panel centered in the softbox. An alternate possibility (to diffuse the light) would be to just hang a large scrim in front of it.
1987919
Actually, the battery and switch fot thr light is in the yellow handle end. I assume there are wires that run along inside the shaft to the light bulb and claws at the end. The shaft is very flexible. Enough to bend the unit into a small circle.
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Easy, just look at the setting on your small black box that you installed as part of the light syste., make sure you have it always set in the middle and it should be fine
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Depending on the metal border around your lights, you can put them on and stretch them out enough so that they don't droop. If that makes any sense...
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I am not sure because it is all open. The sockets are not protected . That should be in description. Maybe Progress Lighting could help.