GLOW Folding Beauty Dish User manual

Folding Beauty Dish
Guide

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Introduction
The Glow ™ Folding Beauty Dish is a light modier that provides extra large
beauty light advantages with strobes, monolights, and most LED lights.
The collapsible, light weight, compact and durable design is perfect for the
portrait or event photographer shooting weddings, dinners, proms, or corporate
events on location.
The Glow Folding Beauty dish is ready for use immediately. No construction or
assembly is needed. Simply follow the setup directions opening the berglass frame
for a quick and secure nish . The exible structure is impact resistant and holds up
better than traditional metallic dishes, subject to damage in transportation and use.
There is no struggling with assembling rods or speed rings. The setup is express and
straightforward. The large collapsible beauty dish’s hinged frame folds up neatly to a
transportable size, ready for the next assignment. The classic look of beauty dish light-
ing is achieved by duplicating the indirect light design of a center deector disk that
is positioned directly over the ashtube . For an even softer eect, a removable front
diuser is included. The deector cap can be removed to attain a harsher lighting
eect through the diuser, similar to a softbox.
The Flashpoint Folding Beauty Dish comes with a Bowens Style reector mount that
can be easily be exchanged with any of the wide range of Beauty Dish Adapters (not
included), for adaptation to most popular ash head mounts .

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Precautions
•Please study this guide and store for future reference.
•The materials used in this product are not waterproof or ame resistant.
Care must be taken to avoid damage.
•Attach strobes with modeling lamps following the recommended
bulb wattage limits.
•Store in a cool and dry environment.
•Glow Folding Beauty Dishes are not designed for quartz or tungsten lighting. Pro-
longed exposure to high temperatures may damage the materials of the product.
•Beauty dish and diuser can be hand cleaned with cold water and mild detergent.
Air dry.
•Handle this beauty dish with care when opening and closing.
•Make sure the unit is intact and there are no missing parts.
•All photos in the manual are for illustrative purposes only.
INCLUDES:
•Glow Folding Beauty Dish with integrated reector mount
•White front diuser material
•Removable Wrap Strip Binding Closure
•Carrying case

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Setup Instructions
1. After removing the folding beauty dish
from the carrying case, loosen or remove
the Wrap Strip Binding Closure that is
holding the beauty dish closed.
2. There are 2 ways to proceed.
Both will require locking the beauty dish
on the ashhead as per the “Installing On
Flashhead”, either as the next step or the
last one.
2A. Mount the closed Folding Beauty Dish
on the ash you wish to use. The light
must be rmly attached to a lightstand or
support. Carefully spread the berglass
rods out to open the umbrella completely.
2B. An alternative way without mounting
on a ash rst, is to rest the back of
the beauty dish on a at surface and
spread out the berglass rods.
3. Push the ex tabs between each support rod
toward the center of the beauty dish until
each joint is straight and locked into place.
When the circuit is completed, you are ready to
use the beauty dish. Mount the dish on a light,
if you have not done so already.
NOTE:
Prevent stress on the umbrella material during
setup by locking the ex joints on opposite
sides, simultaneously, rather than in a clockwise
progression. Use both hands to lock the tabs.

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Installing on Flash Head
INSTALLING ON FLASH HEAD
1. Move the fabric collar aside to expose the
reector mount.
2. Align the tabs of the reector mount ring
with the mount of the light head. Carefully
align and lock the beauty dish in place by
turning the ring clockwise until it clicks,
according to your mount design.
3. Now that the beauty dish is securely attached
to the light head, cover the ashhead mount
with the yellow fabric draw string collar and
tighten to prevent light leaks.
4. When using an dierent Beauty Dish Mount
Adapter, follow the strobe’s instructions for
installing a reector.
INSTALLING AN OPTIONAL
BEAUTY DISH ADAPTER RING
If your ash uses a dierent mount
than the Bowens, a beauty dish adapter
is needed. The process is simple to
exchange the reector’s
mount ring:
1. Unscrew 3 thumb nuts and remove the
washers, leaving the 4th one attached. The
reector mount ring slips out easily.
2. The wide ange of the beauty dish adapter
ts into the support ring. Slip the adapter
under the 4th thumbnut. Fit the ring onto
the screws. Replace the 3 washers and
thumbnuts and securely tighten.