Morris Soft Box - 15x18"

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Its not something you can easily fold away. If you are ok to keep it assembled, its not bad.

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It is a good solution for a flash with softbox in the field or home

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If you are like me and you are looking eagerly around for a speedring/adapter setup so that you can mount a softbox onto your speedlite, then you've come to the right place. Your search has ended. This is the one you want. The entire apparatus is incredibly durable and well made. It's worth every penny. You can literally use this universal speedring to mount most medium and large size softboxes onto your shoe mount flash. Most of the other similiar items on the market are lightweight junk, and not sturdy enough to hold a softbox of any size. This particular softbox is small, mind you. But when you buy this product, it's not the softbox that you are after. It's what is far far more valuable, and hard to find anywhere else: a speedring that will take any shoe mount flash, and allow connection to softboxes of all sizes. Buy this@!!

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Easy to put together, just make sure to pull the velcrow pieces on the softbox apart before you put all four metal posts in the softbox...much easier that way.

diffuses light very well especially with the internal baffle!

no complaints

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Portraits

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This thing is impractical and seems designed by someone who is not a photographer. The number one problem is that it is designed to fit on a tripod, not a lightstand. That is, it mounts via a threaded hole in the bottom of the same size as camera bodies. If all you ever want to use it with is a light weight battery strobe such as a Nikon SB series, fine. But if that's your only intended use, then buy a lighter weight product without a big adapter ring.If you are looking for a reasonably priced small softbox that could fit either a small battery strobe or an AC 110v larger strobe such as an AB 800, don't buy this. The adapter ring is fairly heavy and if you put a large stobe head on it, then I think you would have a lot of weight on a flimsy fitting. Also I do not see any way to attach the ring to my AB800 strobe, contrary to what I thought another reviewer said and which caused me to order the thing. One can of course use an adapter screw to mount the softbox and strobe bracket on a light stand, but that still leaves a weak spot in the system.As others have noted, the very limited directions for assembling it are written by someone who does not know English. If you like Chinese puzzles, ...If you want something to do two purposes, maybe you should change your plans and buy two softboxes, one appropriate for each purpose.It's not B&H's fault, so I won't try to return it. I considered just throwing it in the garbage. Maybe someday I'll think of a use for it. If anyone wants to send me $60 plus shipping, they can have it.The materials are good and some poor people on an assembly line did quality sewing and other construction. So maybe the company's other products are good and they just had a bad design with this one.

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If you search for "hotshoe softbox" here, you get the Lastolight. Which looks fine (really; nothing wrong with the Lastolight at all), but is 3" shorter and costs more than twice as much and has a PLASTIC speedring. Planned obsolescence is one thing, but charging more than twice as much for it? Then there's the Photoflex - also plastic-ringed, but only 1.5x the price (we're getting warmer!). I like Creative Light's stuff and was thinking about spending 1.5x more than this Morris box cost - for their speedring (alone!) - until I decided to go online and see what people were saying. What they were saying is that their SB800's were falling out of them. In the course of looking for a hotshoe speedring that people DID like as an alternative, I came across a site raving about this Morris box for use with Nikon speedlights. She obviously knew how to shoot, so her opinion had weight, but her link - to here (B&H) - said the product was "no longer in stock." Figures. But I clicked anyway, and lo! and behold! So I bought it.I was FLOORED by three things: 1. [...].2. The quality, ease of use and completeness of this set. 3. The "out-of-some-guy's garage" look and feel to Morris Co's web site, packaging and labels. THEY WERE BOUGHT BY SPEEDOTRON IN 1985!!!!! But everything else on their site looks like cat show photographers' gear. I dunno. Maybe they got this one right by accident. But it's right on: aluminum universal speedring, 2 diffusers, metal rods, an excellent, rugged flat case. For less than CL's Speedring. By HALF! Maybe that's why it's buried on this site - to give the competition a fighting chance?The only criticism I have of the whole rig is with one of the four, well-made, universal speed ring mounting bolts. You don't need any of them if you are using a hotshoe mount, & Nikon's SC-28 synch chord meshes as you would expect... Three of the four bolts are removable. But the one long one is riveted to its pad. What I did was just backed it out until the grooved tip of the bolt - cut to hold the rivets and spin - just snapped off. If ever I regret the decision, I can just cut a new groove in the end of the bolt, juts like they did when it was made. The four bolts and their hardware weigh over a pound(!) so if you are planning on lugging this at a weddings or events and aren't using the universe, get rid of the universal bolts.Other than that minor criticism - "it's made so well that it's heavy!" - I have only compliments.

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This soft box includes a very nice speed ring... works perfectly with my speedlight but will hold any number of studio lights. Folds down flat in an envelope.

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Nice little soft box especially for the price. It isn't one I'd use for travel, however, since it is not the quickest to take apart or set up but as an extra studio box, it's great.

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this is very bulky and not very portable.... I would have looked around more for something else

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I purchased this item in order to work with my Nikon SB-800 flash and get some great, soft diffusion. I have so far been extremely pleased with this product--setup the first time was a little tricky for me but I was able to finally figure it out, and now setup/takedown takes only a couple of minutes. Because it's small it's easily portable so I can take this with me for exterior shots where I need some additional light. Even inside, it will give just the right amount of soft light and beautiful catch-lights in the eyes for portraits. I highly recommend this product for anyone looking for a portable lighting alternative when power sources aren't readily available.

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[...]Little did I know I needed a light stand. I was really just looking for a portable softbox for my flash. I tried it with my flash and it did do an AWESOME job however.

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I have used this both in studio and outside with my flash on a stand. Great value for the price!

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I'm a location photographer and shoot daily. The Morris Soft Box is inexpensive and well designed but lacks the quality of the better known brands. The poles it comes with bend easily and are probably made of inferior metal than originally intended, some of the stitching is falling apart (after 1 week), and the unit smells oddly like a china town store. If you keep it set up in your studio or are on a tight budget you will probably like it. I will use it until it falls apart and then upgrade to a nicer box.

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easy to handle off camera with my nikon sb 800 on remote control

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For on-location portraits, weddings, where lugging full size studio strobes is not an option, this softbox is the perfect solution. The instructions and diagrams are very poorly written by a non-English speaker, but I figured it out. Quality is high and the velcro carry pouch it comes with is great.

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It's what was on the Christmas list & produced a big smile when opened by my pro photographer daughter's face. That's 5 stars for me.

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I generally use this for portraits. Its perfect to soften up those head portraits.

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Very well made. Although the directions aren't great, it is pretty easy to figure out how to put it together. If you are looking for something super portable, this may not be it. It is rather light weight, but can hard to hold with one hand. I would definitely buy another one for use on a light stand.

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Onsite portraits. Well made with an industrial speed ring. Takes a minute or two to set up but for the price, it can't be beat. Portability and soft light with a baffle that I don't use.