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There are facilities everywhere to find. As coating of a single object in a specific colour is uneconomic you'd have to wait until the coater has a satin or dull white in his coating chamber. Then the price for one piece is pretty low.
The advantage is a coating that resists any usage and almost never yellows.
Paul Buff wrote:
We are waiting for white samples of the 22HOBD. Because of the white rather than reflective silver it will be very wide angle and lower output and nearly identical to the classic white dish. I have painted one and tested it here, with very good results. It should be ready within a month and, good news, will be priced the same as the 22HOBD.
The production white dishes are being painted now. We went through several paint samples to get it within 100° of neutral. Then we had to specify more flattening agent to get the appropriate matte finish. Next we have to bear the cost of air shipment from China (very high because of the dimensional weight) to get them to customers ASAP. BTW, the USA powder coated was charging $35 per dish to paint the old ones (white inside, black outside) and their color temp was all over the place.
And, yes, what seems to the eye to be pure white can easily be 500° off.
will this version be able to work in studio without lowering the power on a b800 too much? I'm interested in a beauty dish for beauty work, but reading the comments on the silver HOBD that its too powerfull you need to put the sock on it (which in my mind defeats the purpose of this modifier), something the original white dish doesn't need but it has the option.
Cuervo79 wrote:
will this version be able to work in studio without lowering the power on a b800 too much? I'm interested in a beauty dish for beauty work, but reading the comments on the silver HOBD that its too powerfull you need to put the sock on it (which in my mind defeats the purpose of this modifier), something the original white dish doesn't need but it has the option.
Yes, the white version, by nature, has similar output and look as the original white dish. While there may be differences of opinion about the sock, it is my observation that the silver dish, with sock and no blocker, produces superior evenness and lighting effect to the original version with or without sock. Opinions and test shots from users are appreciated.
Future Man wrote:
Paul, I got my HOBD. As with other modifiers I've tried, it doesn't exactly fit snug on my AB800, which I assume is just a downside of the mounting system used on ABs. It's not much, but it does droop off a bit.
I was wondering if the Einstein will provide a more robust mount or do I have to move up to a WL for something like this? Is this just a downside of the ABs being such small units?
The Einstein mounting system is an improved version of the WLX mounting system and is quite superior to the AB system.
