42cm/16" Beauty Dish For Flash?

[russellsnr]

Hi, I intend to buy a beauty dish but not sure if the 42cm/16" approx is big enough for good light with a flash. Should I look for a larger size?
Anyone like to give an opinion on a certain make/size please?
Thank You
Russ

 

[Garry Edwards]

This is for a studio flash, right?
If it's for a hotshoe flashgun then you'll struggle to get it actually behave like a beauty dish, you'll need to stop the light bouncing back off the deflector and disappearing out of the gaps.

As fo size, 40" is big enough for headshots at close distances, 70cm is much more versatile and easier to us but is MUCH bigger and heavier.
Don't waste your money on any of the so-called folding beauty dishes that are currently available, - they are all the wrong shape and produce a light that looks what it is - light from a cheap softbox that doesn't have diffusion.

 

[russellsnr]

Hi, Garry, Many thanks for your reply. No it is for Flash not strobe lights I want to use it outside and as I already have a number of flash guns and in all honesty cannot afford the portable strobes at the moment looked at this option. Have seen on-line people using these with flash guns with what seem to be not to bad results. Did read up on the folding beauty dishes but took a body swerve on them.
Russ