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Godox Octa Softbox 140cm With Grid

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Godox Octa Softbox 140 cm with Grid can be used with strobes or continuous lighting and produces a luminous, diffused light that captures even the finest details beautifully. The softbox diffuses the strobe flash, giving you perfect even lighting.

The detachable grid is used to control light spill and can be particularly helpful in tight shooting environments. The soft light quality of the boxes remains, but the grids allow you to have more directional control over the output by tightening the beam spread. The fabric grids have velcro edging, allowing them to attach to the front outer lip of the exterior black shell of the soft box.

Overview

Compatible with all Godox flash heads with Bowens front accessory mounts, the 55" Octa Softbox with Bowens Speed Ring and Grid from Godox provides a soft, pleasing quality of light. The softbox's large surface are provides a wraparound effect especially when used close up. A bonus of this shape are the natural-looking catchlights in the eyes of the subject. The included fabric grid mounts to the softbox with touch-fasteners and provides directional control of the output, keeps light from the background, and allows you to light specific areas of the subject.

Professional studio light sources generally fall into one of two categories: you can get a kit with a flash head and a power pack, or you can get a monolight kit.

A head and power pack kit consists of the flash head and a small power pack that acts as the generator that supplies energy to the flash head. The flash head contains flash tubes that emit light once supplied with high voltages.

There are two kinds of power packs: symmetric power packs and assymetric power packs. Symmetric power packs split power equally between multiple flash heads. Assymetric power packs allow the user to vary the power supply to different flash heads.

Monolights, on the other hand, are compact substitutes for a power pack/flash head combinations. Their size limits their power, but they are often desired for their portability.

Having all the controls on the power pack makes it easier to change the settings of multiple flash heads in one place quickly. Monolights come with the controls built directly into the light itself. So if you have multiple monolights, you'll need to control and adjust the settings of each one separately. Head/power pack kits also offer faster flash durations than monolights, which can really come in handy when you want to freeze action during fast motion. They also have faster recycle times.

If you're shooting outdoors or with complicated modifier setups, you are going to need a lot of power to overcome the sun or the light loss caused by the modifiers. Head/pack systems have a big advantage in the power department. Whereas, if you're shooting indoors or inside your studio, monolights will probably be more than enough for regular work.