Rogue (FlashBender) Grid

[Green Li]

ExpoImaging folks just released their Rogue Grid. The coolest looking thing ever

Not sure about the easy of use though... Will see...

Rogue Grid release

 

[Drake]

Must be a cool thingie to have, but it actually looks like a meat machine. :er:

 

[KmH]

Attachments like that are just about useless on a speedlight for a couple of reasons:

• they just aren't big enough
• they use up more battery power.

 

[psesinkclee]

How does this use up more battery power? Seems like it just focuses the light from your flash

 

[Green Li]

well, yeah, it focuses the light... not sure why we are talking about the light loss here...

anyways, just posted my hands-on review. tried to find something bad about this product , but the thing seems to be very well thought out

Rogue Grid review

 

[kundalini]

I've been using the David Honl flash accessories for a year or two now, particularly the 1/8 & 1/4 grid and snoots. My grids are rectangular much like the one shown in the lower left of the four Green Li is displaying. They are definitely an asset, whether or not they eat up more battery juice. The point is the effect on your light pattern, you should always carry spare batteries. The Rougue kit looks good.

 

[Derrel]

I looked at the review video of the Rogue grid system...looks pretty good for a small grid for a speedlight. The Honl system review at Honl Photo Speed Grid test @ PHOTO-TIPS-ONLINE.com shows how that system works. The two competing systems, Honl and Rogue, each appear to have their advantages. I think Keith is being a bit too curmudgeonly in his dismissal of grid accessories for speedlights. While they are NOT nearly as powerful as studio flashes with MUCH larger, 7-,11.5-,16-,or 20-inch reflectors fitted with grids on something like a Speedotron studio flash head, adding a grid to a speedlight DOES make the light output lower, more straight-ahead, and creates a "pool" or "circle" of light that allows you to add brightness or accent to smaller areas of a photo. So, it's still a tool that has some usefulness, if used smartly, and in most cases, used with one or two or three additional speedlights. Adding a grid to a light, and then placing it fairly close to the hair, outline, or side of a person is a time-tested trick to create a section of the person that is lighted with brighter-than-mainlight accent or rim-lighting. Realistically speaking, it has only been about two years that grids for speedlight flashes have become available.

 

[Offhand]

I use the other Rogue reflectors and love them. Work great in indoor situations where you don't have a ceiling and walls to bounce flash off of like convention halls. I have all three sizes but the middle sized one hasn't been very useful except to throw light forward. The flag and the large bounce allowed you to also fold the top down. I wonder if the grids will work with that middle sized reflector.