Lencarta 40cm Medium Beauty Dish - white - fits Lencarta/Bowens
Beauty Dishes are the favourite light shaping tool of fashion, glamour and portrait photographers who have moved beyond soft lighting and who want to emphasise high cheekbones and good complexions.
Unlike the light from softboxes, the light is very controlled and directional and so is also ideal for backlighting and rimlighting, and for when vignettes are wanted. A free diffuser is included, this softens the light when needed and creates a light similar to that of a softbox.
A honeycomb grid is also available. This allows even greater control of both light spread and flare and can produce stunning, dramatic lighting with very hard shadow transfer edges.
A larger, 70cm (27.5") model is also available.
Our beauty dishes are available with a choice of white or silver finishes. We believe that Lencarta are the first manufacturer to introduce white beauty dishes - so what are the advantages and disadvantages of white compared to silver?
Advantages of white beauty dishes:
1. They produce softer light
2. When used with a honeycomb they do not create a shadow of the honeycomb, reflected from the interior of the dish.
Disadvantages of white beauty dishes:
They are about 0.8 of a stop les efficient in terms of light output, although this is not normally important as they are typically used very close to the subject.
Technical Specifications:
- Quality of light: Soft but directional light
- Light output (compared to standard reflector) -2 stops
- Modelling lamp: Yes, uses lamp fitted to flash head. Modelling lamps must not be left switched on when the Beauty Dish is fitted with a honeycomb grid, to avoid overheating
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Compatible with:
Lencarta, Bowens and all other S-fit flash heads
What's in the box?
1 x Beauty dish
1 x Diffuser for Beauty Dish
Please note that any flash heads or honeycomb grids shown in the photos are NOT included.