Paul C. Buff, Inc. Technical Forum

Derauqscme,

Thanks for posting. Your pictures reflect the same issue I've been having. I have a shoot I need the light for before I can send it back. I'm probably going to have to find some wire to tie the softbox to the unit to get by.

I suspected heat to be an issue as well. For the last shoot where it just fell off on its own, the lamp had been on for nearly an hour. Unfortunately I do need the lamp on for my space, which is usually rather dark. Otherwise my subjects tend to have huge dilated pupils, which I find undesirable. Hopefully a lower wattage lamp would do the trick.

One possible work around for the dark camera room is to get a cheap clamp on work light with a 100 watt bulb from Walmart and place it so that it brightens up the room. Unless you are using a very slow shutter speed it shouldn't show show up in your images, you can verify that by taking a shot with the flash unit off and the clamp on light in position. I avoid pointing it directly at the subject, just because it makes them squint.

You might want to do this:
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/sho ... ein&page=2

Seems to have solved the issue with minimal cost and great ease of mind....