WELLMAKINGConical Snoot Bowens Mount Studio Lighting Accessory for LED Continuous Light and Strobe Light Bowens Mount Photographic Equipment Accessories Not Include Lens

this thing is AWESOME! It's basically a Leko on a bowens mount. It works great with any lens I put on it. Shapes come out sharp when you focus the lens right.I would put the lens attached at a stop less from full open so shapes come out real sharp while allowing the modeling light to come through. I do wish the inner diffuser was removable to allow more light from the modeling light through. Works best in a lights-out studio setup where you only use the modeling lamps to work. Now all I need is custom inserts that can handle the heat from the modeling light...

Die Idee mag ja gut sein, aber in der Praxis ist dieser Snoot völlig unpraktisch. Die Lichtausbeute ist schlecht, so dass man mit mindestens 5000WS blitzen muss, die Ränder sind völlig unscharf und drehen lässt sich die Gobomaske auch nicht. Habe es wieder zurückgeschickt.

I purchased this Wellmaking Optical Snoot and the additional kit of Gobos. There are several problems that will present themselves, none of which are insurmountable, but just annoying. First, the Gobo cucoloris' are round, but the holder is square or rectangular. This limits how much you can rotate them to position them correctly on your background before the holder pops out of the clip. The holder is held in place by three spring-tensioned washers that sit on the three posts that separate the lens mount from the rest of the snoot.Instead of being able to rotate the gobo holder like with most optical snoots, with this one you have to remove the holder and rotate the gobo itself, then place the holder back into the modifier. Better keep a pair of work gloves with you as this will get hot.I am using one of my backup strobes for this modifier, an Elinchrom RX-4 D-Lite with an Elinchrom to Bowens mount adapter. The modeling light on this is barely bright enough to show the placement of the gobo shape in normal shooting conditions. You may need to lower the lighting until you get the gobo in place. It does work better with a f/1.4 lens on it An f/3.5 lens is very dark. I shoot Nikon, so rather than get a Canon lens, I bought a Canon EF Camera to Nikon F Lens Mount adapter which works well. I did notice some vignetting at the edges of the gobo shape, but this may be due to the vignetting of the lens.The biggest problem I have seen are the light leaks from the back of the Snoot. There is a gap between the Bowns Mount speedring and the rest of the frame, which allows a great deal of light to escape. This will be a problem if you are placing the unit behind a model to get a projection that is on-axis with the camera. This can be solved by wrapping it loosely with black foil, but that is inelegant, and frankly it's just a sloppy design.I also wish that this device came with some cutter blades, allowing you to better shape the light. I may have to try to fashion some.

Typically, an optical snoot costs $250-$300. When I saw this one for sale at $149, I was skeptical about it's quality. I'm a product photographer and did a test shoot with this optical snoot using Canon L series lenses on the snoot device. As you adjust focus on the lens mounted to the snoot, you some times get a weird pattern that I believe is a result of the poor quality glass that is mounted inside the snoot. See the image attached for example. Sometimes it does this and sometimes it does not. All depends on the focusing of the lens attached to the snoot. I was not willing to take the risk of ruining a shot so I returned the snoot to Amazon the same day.

I have two focal spots I have a 10-year old that cost $2500 and this one. This one has a better lens no aberration clean color edge to edge I use 100-300 old canon zoom. It is small and light works on c stand no problem.