Paul C. Buff, Inc. Technical Forum

Hi all,

I am a few days away from purchasing 4 Einstein lights and am wanting to attach possible third party modifiers to them. My question was is it better to purchase the speedring for the Einstein that has a mount that can attach to a stand. This would save the head from possible stress over an extended period of time. This is the link to the speedring.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EZ-Lightstand-3 ... 53f49d0567

Or should I just buy separate speedring by PCB. I will be buying many PCB modifiers but want to have the universal kit that is capable of holding Large modifiers without worry. This is the link to the normal PCB model.

http://www.paulcbuff.com/speedrings.php

What should I do.

Please advise me.

Thanks all
Greg

For non-octas, also look at the Bowens Quickring. You'll find out why once you try to assemble a regular softbox :-)

Thanks Kenyee,

Can you go into a little more detail on the bowens speedring? I will check into it but do you have experience with it?

Would it be better to just buy a few of the bowens quick rings with inserts of the 3rd party modifiers, or get pcb speed rings?

Thanks again

I have one and think it's the only way to deal w/ regular softboxes (nothing like the easy to use PCB Foldables). Put a regular softbox together w/ a standard speedring and you'll see what I mean.
The Bowens QR does come w/ a spigot hole you can screw a

Reviews on it (type in "bowens quickring review" into Google) from Rob/tmr:
http://thelightingacademy.com/blog/bowe ... ng-review/
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/sho ... p?t=833988

Hey Kenyee thanks for that.

I'm looking on PCB website and thought only the sofboxes come fixed with a speedring that can't be detached. Are you saying that they have foldable softboxes and octas that don't come with a speedring.

Also the bowens ring can't be configured with an octa?

I also thought that there was no mount where you can attach the speedring into the stand. But maybe i'm wrong.

Thanks again thats fantastic information.

You specifically said "wanting to attach possible third party modifiers to them".
The PCB foldables already have speedrings...they're plug and play (they collapse down to the diameter of a speedring because of how they fold open and I like them quite a bit).

The Bowens QR can be mounted to a spigot of an umbrella bracket...it's a brass piece w/ a screw on top. So you could use this for any softbox w/ four rods.
However, tmr's mod for using it w/ an octa involves drilling that hole out, so if you want to use an octa and mount the speedring to a lightstand, you'll have to use the OEC one he recommended, but you'll want to leave the octa set up most of the time ;)

ok thats awesome, When it comes to purchase day. If I am ordering

2 strip boxes
2 medium softboxes
1 small softbox
1 large octabox
1 PLM 86in
2 PLM 64in
2 shoot through umbrellas

All are PCB products but have access to other modifiers how many speedring would YOU order and what kind would you get.

Also do you have info the drilling the bowens quickrings to fit octas?

Cheers

Info on drilling the Bowens QR is in that link: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/sho ... p?t=833988

What do you mean "have access to other modifiers"?
Depends on which ones you want to use is how many speedrings you'll need...I'd start w/ one.

The PCB foldables do *NOT* need a speedring. I wasn't sure if this was clear...