It works well this way, but I’d like to see a better material for the handles. I used a little gaffers tape to keep it in place, and I put a bit of preventative gaff tape on the other handle so it won’t come off, which you can see in the cover photo. It’s made of a hard plastic, and it looks like one of the tabs broke so it doesn’t stay on its own. On my unit, one of the handles popped off. I have just two complaints about the handles. But assistants can hold on to a light stand all day without ruining the position of the light on your subject, and if you’re indoors you can use it without an assistant (a breeze will tip it right over, even with reasonable sandbags on the stand). This is really helpful because assistants holding reflectors always get tired and the light wanders. They also have an insert built in which allows you to connect it to a standard 3/8″-16 light stand or tripod top.
These handles make it easier to grip the reflector and to manipulate it and hold it straight out overhead, etc. Two handles make this one stand out from the crowd of 5-in-1 reflectors out there. It’s also got the standard carrying sack, but it’s a little better made than most because the carrying loop is attached to the zipper tape, which will keep it from tearing out as always happens with other reflector cases. versions and that’s probably why the photo shows silver and white coupled. When you buy on B&H you can specify if you want the 5-in-1 model, or just the white/silver, or gold/white, etc. Gold and black are less commonly used, and so they should be coupled.
this is too bad because the sides you’re most likely to need are the white and the silver. It’s built like all other 5-in-1’s with the gold and white coupled together and the silver and black coupled. That would be a great thing and I would recommend this reflector above all others if it were built this way–but it’s not. I got excited when I saw the picture on B&H because it shows the white and silver sides coupled, and the gold and black sides coupled. As is standard with 5-in-1 reflectors, it’s a translucent diffuser/scrim with a cover that has gold, white, silver, and black sides to it.
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