Broncolor Flash Pack Bonanza

[Daniel Unkefer]

520mm 20 inch Apo Ronar Pair 4x5 HP5 D23 F32 one pop by Nokton48, on Flickr

Testing my new 5x7/4x5 Sinar Norma Twin Lens Reflex with my longest matching lens pair set/ 520mm 20" F9 Rodenstock Apo Ronars. These are 45 degree Dialyte process type lenses offered by Sinar Norma in the day. F32 one pop YG Sinar Norma 103mm glass yelow green filter D23 1:1 Unicolor Unidrum and Uniroller. 4X 8x10 Aristo #2 RC print developed in Multigrade dev. Omega DII with Omegalite diffusion head. BTW I picked up my stand-in "model" and the plant base at the local IKEA store. The base is "Rubbermaid Studio". Seemed appropriate to me The canvas background was hand painted by Artist James Bright

[Daniel Unkefer]

SONY DSC by Nokton48, on Flickr

Hasselblad EL/M with CFV16 Digital Back, 135mm C T* Zeiss S-Planar (1:1 to infinity focus with Hasselblad Auto Bellows). Hasselblad Stovepipe, Hasselblad Ring Light, modified by New York City Flash Clinic, to play nice with the Norman 200B 200J Packs. Working good all, will be used for some digital floral photography coming up soon. Actually not too heavy to carry around. The Packs are running off of Broadcast TV Camera Dry Cell Batteries, cheap on Amazon.

[Daniel Unkefer]

Recreated FOBA Broncolor Sybiosis 700J Ball Head by Nokton48, on Flickr

A New to Me FOBA Broncolor Symbiosis. I needed a light which would sit flat on the floor (under two layers of glass) and this retains the Broncolor connectors and One Pulso FOBA Adapter fits it together perfectly. Some might call this a "Pencil Lite". 700 Joules maximum, no modeling light. Incredibly useful to me, i'll leave it close by all the time. Digishot Nex-7 50mm Zeiss Touit, Broncolor Hazylight two layers diffusion, Hazylight 1600J Head. Architectural Vellum on my glass FOBA Sweep Table. Hazylight is beautiful light.

[Daniel Unkefer]

Remember Steve Sint? He used to have a column on Large Format, in Modern Photography magazine. Always enjoyed his insights. Here he's having "A Shot of Scotch". Myself I have developed a taste for Walker Red with some Selzer Water.

https://setshoptutorials.com/shot-of-scotch/

[Daniel Unkefer]

SONY DSC by Nokton48, on Flickr

I bought this Broncolor Octobox 75 cheaply on EBay, turns out it was missing the inner diffusion screen. I made one from Architectural Vellum and attached it carefully inside. Next wanted a Broncolor Octobox 75 Grid, suddenly one appeared on B&H so I grabbbed it. Also I the Outer Diffusion Screen Octobox 75, they are not in stock right now. Sometimes you have to buy new to get what you want. Beautiful soft light graduating out at the edges. Super useful to me.

Good info on this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8kfDNiCOvw

[dxp]

I bought this Broncolor Octobox 75 cheaply on EBay, turns out it was missing the inner diffusion screen. I made one from Architectural Vellum and attached it carefully inside. Next wanted a Broncolor Octobox 75 Grid, suddenly one appeared on B&H so I grabbbed it. Also I the Outer Diffusion Screen Octobox 75, they are not in stock right now. Sometimes you have to buy new to get what you want. Beautiful soft light graduating out at the edges. Super useful to me.

Well that's an amusing coincidence...a few days ago I took delivery of my own Broncolor 75cm Octabox!

I purchased it privately, advertised as brand new by someone who owned it for a while but never used it. Unfortunately that hasn't turned out to be the case, and it's clearly had plenty of use, with several yellow/brown stains on the front diffuser, wear to outer fabric, wear on the ends of the support rods, and most telling of all...the shape of the rods is thus:



If it wasn't for the stained diffuser I'd probably consider keeping it, but that plus the seller's stubborn refusal to even acknowledge the condition of octabox—regardless of whether it was them or not who actually used it—means this will have to go back. A real pity, I've been on the lookout for one of these for a while. And with the seller being a derp about it and now ignoring messages, today I'm handing it over the PayPal's buyer protection to sort out.

I too intend to end up with both the grid and the additional outer diffuser, they're both very useful on a octa this size.

[Daniel Unkefer]

dxp, hope you get your money back quickly.


SONY DSC by Nokton48, on Flickr

Here I've adapted my fave Broncolor C71 Monolight, to fit the modern Pulso 60x60 Softbox. I grew up with square softboxes, I wanted two of these boxes. Adorama had these for $110 each, a whopping discount. So I bought two of these 60x60. Then I went onto Broncolor.USA website, and direct ordered a 60x60 Supplemental Diffuser, and a 60x60 Grid. Actually these were much cheaper than the ones for the Octoboxes! And they had them in stock, they are out of about everything I'm looking for. So I wait. Notice the beautiful shadow background, that is due to the Octobox 150 with Supplemental Diffuser, which I leave set up all the time. Been moving overhead backgrounds around, seamless paper rolls now moved up front of set. Much better but not a fun job to move around. Another James Bright matching set of backgrounds is coming my way for a good price. Special plan for that set.