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Impact 16" Beauty Dish Kit for Speedlights and VC/VS-VSD Monolights

BH #IMBD16BDK • MFR #BD-16KII
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Impact 16" Beauty Dish Kit for Speedlights and VC/VS-VSD Monolights
Key Features
  • Reflector Adapter for Speedlights
  • Speed Ring for Impact
  • S-Type Speed Ring also Fits Other Brands
  • White Interior Beauty Dish
This 16" Beauty Dish Kit for Speedlights and VC/VS-VSD Monolights was put together by B&H to allow photographers to use this unique light shaper with a shoe mount speedlight or an Impact flash head. The Impact 16" Beauty Dish offers a bridge between softboxes and umbrellas that yields a soft but crisp light with snappy contrast and a textural quality that flatters makeup on models and accentuates character in portraiture subjects. The secret is a built-in deflector that bounces the flash's direct output backwards, filling the shallow dish and casting a wide beam of soft light forward. The Beauty Dish fits most major brands with the separate purchase of an adapter.
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This 16" Beauty Dish Kit for Speedlights and VC/VS-VSD Monolights was put together by B&H to allow photographers to use this unique light shaper with a shoe mount speedlight or an Impact flash head. The Impact 16" Beauty Dish offers a bridge between softboxes and umbrellas that yields a soft but crisp light with snappy contrast and a textural quality that flatters makeup on models and accentuates character in portraiture subjects. The secret is a built-in deflector that bounces the flash's direct output backwards, filling the shallow dish and casting a wide beam of soft light forward. The Beauty Dish fits most major brands with the separate purchase of an adapter.

The aluminum alloy Impact Adapter for the Beauty Dish mounts quickly and securely onto Impact VC/VS-VSD monolights, allowing you to use the kit's 16" reflector, as well as optional 20", 22", and 27" Impact Beauty Dishes. With its Bowens S-type design, the adapter also fits Calumet Travelite, Bowens, Cowboy, Interfit Stellar, JTL, Photoflex, Rime Lite, and Westcott Photo Basics flash heads.

As digital cameras perform increasingly better at higher ISOs, the speedlight is increasingly found on a light stand to achieve a studio look. This Raya Reflector Adapter for Speedlights featuring a sliding shoe mount and 5.1" riser. The adapter allows you to use a wide range of flashes including bare-bulb units with a wireless trigger attached. It also utilizes the versatile Bowens S-type accessory mount to enable the attachment of light modifiers like the kit's beauty dish.

Impact 16" Beauty Dish Reflector

The beauty dish reflector is a legendary light shaping tool popularized by fashion and portrait photographers. This Impact 16" Beauty Dish Reflector lives up to its potential by offering a bridge between softboxes and umbrellas that yields a soft but crisp light with snappy contrast and a textural quality that flatters makeup on models and accentuates character in portrait subjects. The secret is a built-in deflector that bounces the flash's direct output backwards, filling the shallow dish and casting a wide beam of soft light forward. The Beauty Dish fits most major brands with the separate purchase of an adapter.

The Beauty Dish can also be used in combination with a diffuser sock or honeycomb grid, which allows for further modification of the light output.

Note:
Beauty Dishes are not recommended for use with continues tungsten lights over 300 watts.
Features neutral white reflector
Ideal for fashion portrait photography
Combine with optional diffuser sock or honeycomb grid
UPC: 847628551541
Impact Beauty Dish Adapter for Impact Monolights, Bowens, Travelite, Cowboy, Interfit Stellar, JTL, Photoflex, Rime Lite, Westcott Flash Heads

This Impact Beauty Dish Adapter for Impact Monolights, Bowens, Travelite, Cowboy, Interfit Stellar, JTL, Photoflex, Rime Lite, Westcott Flash Heads features durable aluminum alloy construction and mounts quickly onto the flash head, allowing you to use 16", 20", 22", and 27" Impact Beauty Dishes on your studio flash. It is compatible with Bowens, Calumet Travelite, Cowboy, Impact VC-VS-VSD Monolights, Interfit Stellar, JTL, Photoflex, Rime Lite and Westcott Photo Basics flash heads.

UPC: 847628551848
Raya RAS-I Reflector Adapter for Speedlights

The RAS-I Reflector Adapter for Speedlights from Raya is the accessory to reach to mount a shoe-mount flash onto a light stand with a 5/8" baby pin. It features a cold shoe compatible with most speedlights or bare-bulb flash units, and it maximizes a flash's beam with Bowens-type light shapers like softboxes, snoots, grids, and beauty dishes. Explore lighting effects that aren't possible with a camera-mounted flash, like creating an entire lighting scene with key, fill, and back lights by placing several flashes on light stands around a subject.

The RAS-I adapter has an adjustable riser and distance bracket to center most shoe-mounted flashes. The adapter can be used with a reflector or softbox for product and tabletop photos. For fashion and portraits, add a beauty dish or an umbrella for wraparound light that will flatter subjects. And to introduce some drama to an image, use the adapter to add a snoot, grid, or gobo to the flash setup.

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  • Mounts a shoe-mount flash on a light stand
  • Adjustable riser height and distance
  • Bowens accessory mount
  • Umbrella mount
  • +/- 90° tilt adjustment
  • Durable all-metal construction
  • Easy setup and takedown
UPC: 847628040700
Kit Contains:

Impact 16" Beauty Dish Reflector

Key Specs
Item Type
16" Beauty Dish
Interior Color
White
Light Compatibility
Requires Bracket/Speed Ring (Not Included)
Accepts Grids
Yes (Not Included)
Item Type
16" Beauty Dish
Color
Black
Interior Color
White
Light Compatibility
Requires Bracket/Speed Ring (Not Included)
Accepts Grids
Yes (Not Included)
Maximum Wattage
300 W (Hot Light)
Light Loss/Gain
No
Materials
Aluminum
Dimensions
Diameter x Height: 16 x 4.5" / 40.6 x 11.5 cm
Weight
2 lb / 840 g
Packaging Info
Package Weight
2.8 lb
Box Dimensions (LxWxH)
17.1 x 16.8 x 6.6"

Impact Beauty Dish Reviews

Simply Beautiful

By Jim
Rated 5 out of 5
Date: 2025-08-29

A simply thank you for responding so quickly. I was able to put it to work the day i received it.

cheap. not stable.

By Troy
Rated 1 out of 5
Date: 2022-06-18

unfortunately I didn't have a chance to use until after the return period. the attachment won't fully tighten on the light stand and the rest of the unit is super wobbly. alas.

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question

will this speedlight adapter fit 20'' beauty dish?
Asked by: Anonymous
As long as the 20 beauty dish has a Bowens S-type mount attached to it, the Raya Reflector Adapter for Speedlight will fit on it.
Answered by: Kirk R.
Date published: 2018-08-26

Will this work with alien bees b800?

Will this work with alien bees b800?
Asked by: Ryan
Yes, however you would need to purchase an adapter separately. Check out the Beauty Dish Adapter for Paul C. Buff Alien Bee https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/838100-REG/Impact_bda_ali_Beauty_Dish_Adapt_For.html
Answered by: Gradus Support
Date published: 2019-07-18

Do these really work well with speedlights? ...

Do these really work well with speedlights? Wouldn't the light just get reflected out the back, unlike with a bare bulb monolight that directs light to the main part of the dish?
Asked by: Glenn
Yes, the Impact 20" Beauty Dish Kit for Speedlights and VC/VS-VSD Monolights, B&H # IMBD20BDK, works well for speedlight flashes. Some light may be reflected out of the back of the beauty dish, but that does not affect the quality of light that is coming out of the front of the beauty dish. (For the record, if a bare bulb flash were used with the above beauty dish and the sides were not blocked, it too would also lose some light out the back of the unit). If you feel this will be an issue for your images, you are welcome to devise a setup or contraption that will block light from exiting the back of the beauty dish by blocking or filling the space between the sides of the flash and the rear opening of the beauty dish. The whole point of the deflector plate in the center of a beauty dish is to bounce forward-facing light back into the beauty dish to fill up the beauty dish. If your flash has a zoom head, you could also simply set the flash zoom head to the wide angle setting, and/or purchase a Stofen-type Omni-Bounce cover to place on the front of your flash, which would extend the front of your flash and make it work similarly to a bare-bulb flash, scattering light in 180 degrees from the front of the flash head.
Answered by: Manzell L
Date published: 2021-05-10

Which adapter for Godox V-1 Speedlight ?

Which adapter for Godox V-1 Speedlight ?
Asked by: John D.
Unfortunately, there are no adapters allowing this beauty dish to fit the Godox V1. A better option is the Westcott Switch Beauty Dish (24"), BH # WE2520 along with the Westcott Rapid Box Switch / Beauty Dish Switch Insert for Profoto A1 Flash. BH # WE2540. https://bhpho.to/30aSnu6 https://bhpho.to/3mupViT
Answered by: Kirk R
Date published: 2020-09-17

You will need to buy adapter for ad600 pro?

You will need to buy adapter for ad600 pro?
Asked by: Quez
Yes, the Impact 16" Beauty Dish Reflector will need a Speedring adapter for the Godox AD600Pro Witstro All-in-One Outdoor Flash. You will need the Impact Beauty Dish Adapter for Impact Monolights, Bowens. BH # IMBDAIMP
Answered by: Andres M
Date published: 2024-04-15

What adapter would I need for Impact 20" Beauty ...

What adapter would I need for Impact 20" Beauty Dish Reflector to use with the Impact EX 100A strobe unit?
Asked by: Mark
To use the Impact 20" Beauty Dish Reflector on an EX100A monolight, you need the Angler Beauty Dish Adapter for Elinchrom, Impact EX, Calumet Genesis, Interfit EX Flash Heads, B&H # ANEGDHOL (https://bhpho.to/4ciRILG).
Answered by: Elliot
Date published: 2024-08-08

question

Will the 16 beauty dish work on a Dynalite 4040 flash head?
Asked by: mario b.
To attach this beauty dish to a Dynalite 4040 head, you may use the Impact Beauty Dish Adapter for Comet, Impact LiteTrek, Dynalite SH and AH Flash Heads B&H # IMBDACOM, which has a bayonet-style mount. An image is shown below.
Answered by: Kirk R.
Date published: 2018-08-28

Hi, I have an interfit s1-N, and can I assume ...

Hi, I have an interfit s1-N, and can I assume that the B&H# IMBDAIMP is the correct adapter ring? Also how do I gauge what size beauty dish reflector I would prefer? For instance, 16 inch would be for head shot portraits; where would the other sizes come into play? Thankyou for your help. Paul.
Asked by: Paul
Interfit S1 is Bowens mount you will need Impact Beauty Dish Adapter for Impact Monolights, Bowens, Travelite, Cowboy, Interfit Stellar, JTL, Photoflex, Rime Lite, Westcott Flash Heads B&H # IMBDAIMP and 22" is a usual size for Beauty Dish
Answered by: vilson
Date published: 2021-02-22
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