The Impact Food Photography Kit offers a compact, basic setup with a fluorescent lamp head and a versatile stand that will allow you to shoot your own cuisine or a wide variety of tabletop items. You can enhance the head's quality of light with the included 19.7 x 19.7" softbox or optional diffusion, such as Impact's 33" or 43" White Translucent Umbrella.
The Impact Convertible Boom Arm/Light Stand is a triple-duty support that can serve as a 13' light stand or as an overhead boom capable of supporting a small light head, such as the included fluorescent fixture, at an extension of almost 3 feet from the center of the stand. Alternately, you can bounce the light off of a reflector or pump it through diffusers up to 60" by supporting them with the stand's spring clips.
The Single-Socket Fluorescent Fixture comes with a compact fluorescent lamp with a daylight-balanced color temperature of 5000K. The fixture's bracket tilts and locks into position and features a standard 5/8" receiver that mounts on any 5/8" stud or accessory.
The Single Socket Fluorescent Fixture from Impact is a lightweight fixture in a polycarbonate housing designed to accept Edison-base compact fluorescent lamps. It can be used with up to 105W CFL bulbs. The fixture's bracket tilts and locks into position and features a standard 5/8" receiver that mounts on any 5/8" stud or accessory.
The Impact Convertible Boom Arm/Light Stand can support a small or medium light head to a height of 13'. Raise the second section completely, click, and it is a boom stand. As a boom, it can hold a small light head to an extension of almost 3' from the center of the stand.
It is a reflector holder by means of its two clips, which can support an Impact, Flexfill, or Photoflex light disc as large as 60".
A hole at the end of the arm allows an optional counterweight to be hung, for greater stability.
- Loosen the large long handle in the middle of the stand.
- Loosen the top-most section of the stand. Pull that section all the way up.
- Pull! Swing it horizontally for the boom feature, and lock it for the desired setup.
The SF-32-120 Impact Spiral Fluorescent Lamp is a 32W/120V E26 medium screw-base lamp that fits Impact fixtures such as the Octacool and VA902 as well as many other lamp head brands. The lamp is daylight color balanced and has an average lamp life of 10,000 hours.
This Softbox for Fluorescent Fixtures from Impact is a 20 x 20" light modifier that softens the output of Impact FF-S1 and FF-S4 single- and four-socket fluorescent fixtures, as well as Impact's SF-ABRL160 Slave Flash.
