In the large bag, the outer skin was (outside black, inside silver), 4 bars (fiberglass or metal, am not sure) with end pieces, the rear diffuser and the front diffuser. Instructions ??? Unfortunately no ... The Bowens adapter has many holes, some of which are labeled 1, 2 or 3, or not at all. Meaning? Unclear ... that the 4 bars have different end pieces for the scaffolding, I only noticed on the third view. So I tried the thicker ends of times the adapter has looked better, was also correct. As the box is not square but rectangular, I have not the opposite, but also the "rectangular" holes in the adapter. That was wrong ... Well, in the next start-up, I had the right holes. Since the installation of the bars quite a bit of effort required, a manual (simple sketch !!!) would have been helpful here. The attachment of diffusers was easily possible. The inner is mounted with snap hooks on the elastic loops small, the front diffuser is placed over the corners at the sides and fixed with Velcro.
The pre-assembled box is light and strong. The box can to solve a gerädelten screw on Bowens adapter rotate 360 degrees. This screw is inside the adapter, you get there but by opening the rear Velcro back of the box is relatively easy. I use them with the Phottix HS Speed Mount and my dedicated flash Nikon SB-700 Speedlight for Nikon Digital SLR cameras for product and portrait photography. With unfolded in wide panel of lightning the front diffuser is illuminated nicely into the corners. Since the flash illuminates also rectangular, one must of course make sure that the flash can also be rotated in the mount, if you turn the box. Or you assembled the entire unit to a small ball head. At a distance of 1.5 m (softbox - motif) I can stop down at ISO 100 up to aperture 16, until aperture 22 it comes to underexposure. This is perfectly adequate for my purposes, with higher ISO speeds or greater flash (SB700 LZ 28 has at ISO 100) has still enough room. I've tested with mounted inner diffuser. This could also be omitted when using a flash system because it already anyway illuminates rectangular. That would mean an extra light gain. But if I have not tried.
Conclusion: I have long wondered whether the lack of building instructions for a star-trigger ranges. I then decided against me because:
- The box in the application which is really very good and at a good price
- I certainly will not dismantle the box often and reassemble. And the 2nd time there should be no more problems ...
Therefore, I issue a buy rating and 5 *****
