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| Author: | EKB [ Thu Dec 12, 2013 2:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Striplight Thoughts |
The usual designs for DIY striplights involve a cardboard box or tube with a speedlight stuck into one end and one side cut away from the box (or a fat slit cut into the tube). The "SaberStrip" is the store-bought version. This got me thinking about something like this for an Alien Bee, maybe something like the UBR reflector, only much taller and with the metal wrapped around a bit more (maybe 225 degrees instead of 180). Or a homemade version cobbled together from metal heating duct and white spray paint. (Putting cardboard right at the front of an Alien Bee with its modeling light and higher-powered flash tube is NOT something I'm going to do...) But I thought I'd ask the older and wiser heads here about this half-baked idea first. If it's workable, I can see advantages over a regular strip softbox, in terms of a smaller footprint among other things. But would it be workable? Or is a strip softbox just that much better a solution overall? |
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| Author: | kenyee [ Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Striplight Thoughts |
I was wondering about this too...maybe if you can find a reflective silver roofing gutter, you could then cover the top of it w/ rosco diffusion and use a metal ring around the Einstein or AB and then use a convex car mirror reflector on the end of it. It'd be relatively easy to cut to 6' lengths. You can't collapse it though so it'd be a 6' tube + the length of the connector :-) Hmm...or take a paper backdrop shipping container and cut it down and line it w/ aluminum foil and find a ventilation duct ring you could convert to a Balcar mount. It'd sitll be heavy though :-( |
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| Author: | Luap [ Fri Dec 13, 2013 6:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Striplight Thoughts |
I have experimented with this type of design long ago, and concluded getting even coverage from top to bottom of the box was nearly impossible. |
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| Author: | kenyee [ Sat Dec 14, 2013 3:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Striplight Thoughts |
Luap wrote: I have experimented with this type of design long ago, and concluded getting even coverage from top to bottom of the box was nearly impossible. I don't think the icelight gets even coverage either nor do most stripboxes. It's probably a question of "good enough". Do something like a soft grad diffusion filter near the strobe head because that's where it'll be the brightest. How much of a lighting difference did you see? I still think the weight issue is the main problem unless the tube is made out of a thin plastic or something. I can just see my gutter hack falling over :lol: |
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| Author: | EKB [ Sat Dec 14, 2013 4:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Striplight Thoughts |
Luap wrote: I have experimented with this type of design long ago, and concluded getting even coverage from top to bottom of the box was nearly impossible. Well, it was still worth asking about. People have managed to make it work "good enough" with speedlights, which meant there was a chance that it might be scalable with studio strobes. I also found an oddball example where they used two Alien Bees, one at each end. http://www.diyphotography.net/shooting- ... trip-light Not the most practical setup. |
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| Author: | studiospace [ Sat Dec 14, 2013 4:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Striplight Thoughts |
I, like Paul, have put much thought into strip lights and see no way to get an even strip. A clue is to look at Broncolor and Profoto, they both use long flash tubes in their strip lights. |
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