Oh Brando! Junky plastic spy gear and novelty toys flow from your throat like a stream of Sky Mall regurgitation. Once in a while, though, a gem can be panned from the dirty silt of your catalog. And one of those times is now.
Brando’s six-in-one flash set is distinguished by two things. One, every component appears to be useful and two, it’s cheap. $88 for a box of translucent plastic parts might not sound cheap to you but in the world of photo accessories it is a steal.
You get the standard light modifiers: a circular honeycomb grid, a softbox, a set of barn-doors and a neat, extendible conical snoot. You also get the more unusual globe diffusor, which looks just like a lightbulb and should aid in getting the go-everywhere “bare bulb” look, a beauty dish (called a mini-reflector, here) and the odd plastic flash adapter, which itself looks like it could give a nice strong central beam with soft edges.
The adapter is supplied in different sizes and will even fit the monster Nikon SB900 and Vivitar 285HV strobes. The only problem will come if this is just too thin and plasticky to last. Other than that, it looks like a sound addition to any strobist’s kit.
Product page [Brando via Oh Gizmo!]
