I am currently using Speed lights with a Bowen mount on soft boxes, strip lights and hair light snoot. I am wanting to switch to Paul Buff Einstein's, but they don't seem compatible with my mounts (at least I see nothing on the PCB site indicating they are). Is there an adapter, or am I looking at an expensive repurchase of proprietary soft boxes, etc? Or are the Einstein's compatible with the mounts and I just missed it?
I haven't found an adaptor. If you find one please pm me.
If your soft boxes use a bowens speed ring, you can always switch out the speed ring for a PCB one.
You may be able to change the inner mount of your Bowens speedrings for an Einstein/ Balcar type.
Search for Balcar too, as it has the same design as the Paul Buff mounts.
I did find a Bowens to Balcar adapter here:
http://m.ebay.com/itm/291253545610?_mwBanner=1
GoofyNewfie, jdubu, Mogul
Thanks. I think I will try one of the adapters and go with the Einstein
jglabas wrote:
GoofyNewfie, jdubu, Mogul
Thanks. I think I will try one of the adapters and go with the Einstein
I purchased the adapters from the ebay link above. Very sturdy steel construction and work perfectly. Three screws can be removed to create a flange that works nicely with Hahnel softboxes which use a spring loaded system to hold it in place (much like a reflector that is twisted into three rings for storage).
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