Profoto unveils collapsable beauty dish that won’t hog up space in your camera bag
Mar 7, 2016
Gannon Burgett
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36 years ago, Profoto released a lighting accessory they called the Softlight Reflector. Today, we call this creation a beauty dish, thanks to its unique design that softens light in the perfect manner for portraits.
Today, Profoto has announced a new and improved version, the OCF Beauty Dish. And this time, it’s collapsable, making it far more portable and lightweight than ever before.
Technically, this compact update is nothing more than an octabank with a beauty dish reflector and diffuser on the outside. But it brings into the 21st century a product that has long had its place in the arsenal of strobists around the world.
Designed to be used alongside Profoto B1 and B2 units, the OCF Beauty Dish uses a patent pending design that weighs only 1.1 pounds (roughly 0.48 kg) and folds out to a diameter of 2 feet (56 cm)
The OCF Beauty Dish is being sold in both a white and silver model for $179.
Gannon Burgett
Gannon Burgett is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, editing, marketing, multimedia content creation. He’s photographed and written content seen across hundreds of millions of pageviews. In addition to his communications work for various entities and publications, Gannon also runs his multimedia marketing agency, Ekleptik Media, where he brings his expertise as a full-stack creator to help develop and execute data-driven content strategies. His writing, photos, and videos have appeared in USA Today, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, DPReview, PetaPixel, Imaging Resource, Lifewire, Yahoo News, Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, and more.
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