Speedotron vs Fotodiox 22in Beauty Dish

kdthomas · Apr 22, 2015

please don't give me (too much) jazz over the Booty Dish that I DIY'ed awhile back :biglaugh:

Seriously though the Fotodiox kit is $100 ... is there anything that justifies an extra $230 for the speedo dish?

Both kits come with a sock and a grid ... 50 deg for Fotodiox , 35 for speedo.

tirediron · Apr 22, 2015

Probably the main difference will be the speedring. The Foto unit will use a universal adaptor type of speedring, which, in my experience is never as good as the "real thing"; the one I have slides around, can be a pain to mount, but other than that, the quality of light is wonderful.

table1349 · Apr 22, 2015

Yep, kind of like buying Ford wheels to put on a Chevy. The lug pattern just doesn't always meet up.

tirediron · Apr 22, 2015

gryphonslair99 said:
Yep, kind of like buying Ford wheels to put on a Chevy. The lug pattern just doesn't always meet up.

That's what a technical tapper is for!

Derrel · Apr 22, 2015

Good grief...$99 WITH a grid??? BUY IT NOW!!!!!!!! Amazon.com Fotodiox Pro Beauty Dish 22 56cm kit with honeycomb Grid 50 degree for Speedotron Black Line 202VF 206VF 102 103 105 Brown line MW3R MW3U MW3UQ M90 M90Q M11 Strobe Flash Light Beautydish Photographic Lighting Reflectors Camera Photo

kdthomas · Apr 22, 2015

Derrel said:
Good grief...$99 WITH a grid??? BUY IT NOW!!!!!!!! Amazon.com Fotodiox Pro Beauty Dish 22 56cm kit with honeycomb Grid 50 degree for Speedotron Black Line 202VF 206VF 102 103 105 Brown line MW3R MW3U MW3UQ M90 M90Q M11 Strobe Flash Light Beautydish Photographic Lighting Reflectors Camera Photo

Lol ... And so I did

Village Idiot · Apr 23, 2015

I have a Kacey Beauty dish I've owned for a while. I've adapted it to work on Alien Bees, Speedotron, and finally Dynalites. As long as you buy a quality adapter, there shouldn't be an issue.

Derrel · Apr 23, 2015

If you need a genuine Speedotron manufactured accessory mounting collar, it's $20, and is part number 14250, seen on this page. Speedotron Products Accessories
I have one around here in a bag, complete with some mounting screws and washers...I snagged it at PPS for $5 maybe 15 years ago, and at that time thought I might use it for something, but in the intervening years, all these low-cost MIC modifiers have suddenly sprouted like weeds, and it's EASY for these outfits to get the Speedo Universal mount right...not like to so-called Elinchrome-fit beauty dish I bought for my JTL mono...the dish's ring was sooooo far off it took me a night hand-filing away the lug receptacles AND the lugs on the monolight to get the danged dish to fit...three lugs, three lug receptacles around a 360 degree arc? Apparently too much for some Chinese knock-off machinist...but the Universal mount is just TWO lugs, each perfectly opposite the other, one at at 9 and the other at 3 o'clock...hard to eff that simple a thing up, no matter how much of an idiot one is.