Bud, Thanks for your interesting answer. See my comments following yours:
> By itself, a > single flash doesn't have enough power to be used effectively with a > softbox which diminishes light quite a bit more than an umbrella. > Umbrella's are more commonly used because they lose less light. How does an umbrella looses less power than a softbox? How do you use the umbrella? A silver reflecting (inversed) or a while translucid facing the subject? I've used a white translucid umbrella and I might expect that a softbox would make more efficient use of the flash power. The translucid umbrella bounces a lot of light backwards, making you loose control of it and effectively reducing the usable light reaching your subject. I would expect that a softbox would bounce all that light back at the subject, as the flash in enclosed in reflective walls. I saw the chimera's and they produce an adaptor for flashguns for they XS line but I still like the Ezybox better because of the portability. I'm still looking at how to fit the 550EX inthere. Maybe some Manfrotto umbrella attachment with tripod screw (like the one that comes with the magic arm) I'm not really looking at a studio outfit (in that case, strobes would make more sense) but a portable setup to control light on location (and ocassionaly use it in a garage-studio :-)) -regards, Gerard. * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
