WELLMAKING Bowens Mount Optical Snoot for Photo Video Studio | Shape light creatively with projection lens, adjustable focus control and various gobos for portraits, filming visual effects

I love this snoot. It’s solid and is not built out of cheap materials. It allows you to add some creativity to your photoshoots/videos.

Second "wellmaking" product i have gotten ! Have been impressed with the Bang for the Buck quality ! This snoot does everything as advertised... Weak points ? ... the little knob to adjust the focus tends to "wander" a bit when you adjust it... I put a small washer under it and that helped a lot.... I wish the Iris was "rounder" when closing it up... I get it... for the price/and the ammount of blades it has... im sure its an economic thing... but it doesnt make a perfect hard edge circle at different diameters... (unfocused who cares but for hard edge it is "so so"... Again for the price ? its a fair deal ! build quality is solid.. Would be nice if one day they could add an accessory or a DIY modification accessory to add the 4 way "flags/blades" somehow so you could adjust/flag/the shape of light totally custom anyway you want like some of the higher end units... ? perhaps mechinism that could slide into the gobo slot ? ... would be very useful... But again this thing for the money is awesome... nice job ! Recently purchased the 40w vid light and have been very pleased with that for the price as well ! 30 years shooting weddings, so far so good first time ever using this company's products !

It works okay! The gobo disc size is not a common size (58mm vs 66mm), so you have to buy their gobo discs for more variety. That's the one downside I see. It's not something I use all the time, but it works when I use it! I do not leave the model light on at full blast while shooting. I will position the light and then turn the model light off. I do this for all grids and gobos, since they can all get very hot

Ordered this product and I gave it 3 stars for a reason (see update below). Build quality is not too bad. The one that I have a complaint about is the fresnel lens in the design. It seems the fresnel lens is made of some sort of plastic instead of glass. Unfortunately, I didn't find this out till later when I was putting the product away....that I noticed something not right about it. It had a refractive look and I also noticed that there was an opening to one side. It melted from the modeling lamp. I have a Bowens Prolite series which has a long 3" cylindrical modeling lamp which may have been too close to the fresnel lens inside the unit. I may have to replace it with a glass version of it if I can find one that is not thick unless Wellmaking can send me a replacement lens. Will keep you all posted. UPDATE: Wellmaking contacted me and asked me for photos which I sent and we found the problem. My Bowen’s light had a deep socket (marked in red with arrow) along with a very long modeling lamp which caused the melting for being too close to the lens. They sent me a replacement unit and a replacement lens if I wanted to tinker with it. So, I got great customer service for a flaw that was from my light not theirs. I modified the review to 5 stars. (No, they didn’t ask me to do this review. I am doing it on my own volition.)

Best item I have ever bought. Super sharp looking piece. Light is easy to use!

The Wellmaking Flash snoot is a little tricky in some respect but you are able to get some good result with it. First of all, I must say that I removed one star immediately since it did not come with instructions. There is very little reason to ship such a device without instructions. The device is made of light weight metal which is a definite plus. As described it comes with several metal disk gobos as well as a few colored gels. It fits fairly easily onto a Bowens light source. Controls on the device allow you to adjust the aperture opening (a small spot or much larger), as well as a focusing knob to move the built in lens. A gobo holder fits about midway into the device and is held in place by two spring clips. I found it tricky to get the holder in place correctly and would suspect that the spring clips would break easily if one was too rough with the holder. This appears to be a weak point in the overall design. The photographer will definitely need to use the modeling light if mounted on a studio strobe on order to position the pattern where desired. Keeping the modeling light will of course make the device quite warm to the touch. Comparing this optical snoot to some of the more expensive models, some models allow for a interchangeable lens which this model does not. This may or may not be a benefit to some depending on how one plans to use the device. That said, the results from other models do not appear to be superior to what this model can achieve, so from that perspective value for the money may be a little more cost effective. Extra Gobo's are VERY expensive for this device as well as for other models. The good news it when paired with online photoshop gobo overlays, its value increases. Keep in mind that if using this device with a model, the pattern will shift as he/she moves so an assistant can be valuable in re-orienting the light.

Work excellent on my westcott fj400

From the early 80's on I've had an old Balcar flash snoot. With it I was able to do all types of creative accent lighting that I enjoy doing. I wanted to get their upgraded version, but this French company went out of business in the 90's (I still have one of their power packs from the Chicago Playboy mansion). At the time there didn't seem to be other options. Looking this year, I finally came to one I thought might be good, the Wellmaking Bowens Mount Flash Snoot. When I opened the box I found a very well made solid product that also worked very well in my initial trials, Unfortunately, with this pandemic I've been limited to doing more and sharing it with my photographer friends. Hope I can do so soon!

Great lighting tool. East to use and so flexible in its capabilities!!

Das Ding tut was es soll, die Verarbeitung ist nicht besonders hochwertig, mehr klapprig. Aber der Zweck wird erfüllt. Mit dem Aputure 120Dii funktioniert es problemlos, und hell. Alle gobos sind super. Ich denke man kann auch eigene einsetzen.

Me Super encantó!!

Arrived on time - easy to insert gobos

Hice varias pruebas y en todas me sale una mancha negra, hice una prueba sin el snoot y no sale, no sé si esté defectuoso ACTUALIZACIÓN Mi flash donde monté el snoot es un godox sk300, quité el foco luz de modelado y desapareció la mancha, buen producto, si lo recomiendo, solo deberían mejorar un poco su servicio al cliente, escribí para comentar el detalle y nunca recibí respuesta.