p.1 #2 · Will a Godox S2 Speedlight Bracket / Bowens adapter work with an E27 bulb holder?
They might fit, but those spiral fluorescent lamps used in those lamp holders do give off considerable heat. Even more heat and certain serious quick death problems if you use the old 300 watt photo flood bulbs with quick death of your soft boxes if you use these older lights. Fitting them into a soft box and leaving them lit will overheat the soft box materials very quickly because there won't be adequate cooling air flow. Both kinds of lights are best used with umbrellas and lots of air flow around them. I haven't done this, so I can only speak warnings. But don't underestimate what you can do with umbrellas. With practice, you can get nearly the same result using umbrellas that you can get using small soft boxes. Save your money and experiment with your continuous on lights and umbrellas. Spend the money for better lights and soft boxes later, after you have more experience.
p.1 #4 · Will a Godox S2 Speedlight Bracket / Bowens adapter work with an E27 bulb holder?
A few years back, when I was converting all of my softboxes into a continuous lighting system using the same Godox S2 Speedlite brackets, I used clamp lights with aluminum reflector for each softbox, something like this:
If I had known about the E27 lamp holders, I'd probably have used those, instead. The only issue you have is the question of whether the dimension of the round head of E27 lamp holder would fit into the S2 bracket. The head of E27 is 1.9 inches, and I just measured the S2 bracket and it turns out it can clamp up to 2 inches. So, it looks like it'll work.
As for light bulbs, I used a couple of daylight led bulbs in one of my large softboxes. I wanted light bulbs that do not emit heat, 5000 kelvin daylight and energy efficient, and these have been great.
This is a 30W LED that is equivalent to a 500W incandescent. Since it is an LED it stays very cool to the touch and is fine for a softbox.
Color temp is daylight and looks pretty good in photos.
I have several of the Neewer sockets you show in your OP but have not figured out how to attach this very well to the Godox S2 mount.The S2 will hold it, but awkwardly. I've thought of trying some kind of gooseneck arm but haven't tried one yet.
p.1 #6 · Will a Godox S2 Speedlight Bracket / Bowens adapter work with an E27 bulb holder?
Jay968 wrote:
I have several of the Neewer sockets you show in your OP but have not figured out how to attach this very well to the Godox S2 mount.The S2 will hold it, but awkwardly. I've thought of trying some kind of gooseneck arm but haven't tried one yet.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.
The Neewer sockets and the S2 mount do not work well together. I just use a corded light socket, something like this, and it works well.
p.1 #7 · Will a Godox S2 Speedlight Bracket / Bowens adapter work with an E27 bulb holder?
I have both kinds of brackets so I measured for you. S2 will close down to 40mm. Original S-type bracket closes to 30mm. So you might be better off with the old style which do not fit the round head V1 lights but close down tighter.
p.1 #8 · Will a Godox S2 Speedlight Bracket / Bowens adapter work with an E27 bulb holder?
The problem with the Neewer sockets is not that they don't tighten well enough inside the S2 but that the light stand portion of the socket gets in the way when trying to stick enough of the socket through the S2. The S2 only grips the very end of the socket.
The hanging light socket shown by SSO-Images may be a better way to go rather than the Neewer ones as the S2 will hold it a little further back and thus create a bit more secure grip.
p.1 #9 · Will a Godox S2 Speedlight Bracket / Bowens adapter work with an E27 bulb holder?
I ordered and just received the sockets listed above by SSO-Images. The same exact ones.
Yes they are too skinny to fit into the S2 bracket!
Might wrapping gaffers tape around the socket do the trick? The bulbs that I use are LEDs and do not get hot to the touch at all. I can hold them in my hand while they are turned on. The sockets themselves appear to have some kind of rubber or silicon casing around them.
p.1 #10 · Will a Godox S2 Speedlight Bracket / Bowens adapter work with an E27 bulb holder?
I'd say tape is fine. Or maybe some cardboard or what about a 3D-printed sleeve of some kind? Some Styrofoam cut out to the right shape from packing material?
p.1 #11 · Will a Godox S2 Speedlight Bracket / Bowens adapter work with an E27 bulb holder?
Thanks.
Yes I have been thinking that either styrofoam or some foam padding wrapped around the socket may do the trick. That socket doesn't even get warm with the LED bulbs in them.
p.1 #12 · Will a Godox S2 Speedlight Bracket / Bowens adapter work with an E27 bulb holder?
There are variations of the S2 type bracket now available on the market. I'm thinking about the round head speedlites, but there is also one available for the AD200 as well. You might want to do a search for these other styles of the basic S2 brackets to see if one of them will do the job better.
I'm pretty much just doing studio work now, so most of my speedlite hardware only gets dragged out of the closet a few times a year, but I have seen ads for these other types of S2 style brackets, now available for different kinds of lights. There is even one now available to fit two rectangular speedlites together in the center of it. All of these have the same Bowens mount, outer ring, and stand attachment.
As for LED technology in my studio, I have tried both 60 and 120 watt round lights with COB design and with Bowens mounts for soft boxes, and I have concluded that LEDs for this purpose are just not ready for prime time studio portrait work, yet, although they are getting close. My budget just won't allow buying the latest high end versions yet, but maybe in a few years. I do use 10 LED light flat panels for studio video work though, although no modifiers at all are used with these light panels, except for frosted plastic diffusion panels. The goal with this is to light an area of about 16 X 20' as evenly and shadow free as possible (like a TV news room) for short commercial type video work.
p.1 #13 · Will a Godox S2 Speedlight Bracket / Bowens adapter work with an E27 bulb holder?
Well, Godox makes 2 S brackets as Jeffbuzz has shown above.
They also make a similar bracket that you can attach 2 AD200 or AD200Pro flash units into the back of and the front has the sockets for the two bare bulbs. So essentially, you are able to use the 2 lights in tandem in one softbox thus effectively doubling the light output.
As suggested by SSO-Images above, one can get an almost 1000W equivalent from 2 LED bulbs.
I did figure a solution to holding the sockets in the S2 bracket. I had a shipping box tape dispenser lying around that had a cushioned cover (feels like some kind of foam covering) on its handle and thought "hmmm, what if I just remove that cover from around the handle. Would it slide on over the bulb socket?"
Sure enough, it did. I cut the cushion covering in half, and thanks to the extra width of the sockets, I now have a couple of those bulb sockets that I can clamp down on and hold securely with the S2 bracket.
