Paul C. Buff, Inc. Technical Forum

trying to get this straight...looking at the provided images (for 86" PLMs)...
an extreme silver PLM with white diffuser attached loses about 1.2 stops (f/8.8 x-s to f/16 ss) to the soft silver of same size and power level.
also the x-silver w/white diffuser also warms up a bit and adds small bit of G tint where as soft silver remains neutral.
what i can't see by the brick wall images is shadow edge transitions.
i have all three sizes of x-silver (with diffusers) and am interested in the new soft silvers.

It does feather more than the extreme. The tightness of the beam is still smaller than a white or (silver + WFDF).