Do you want your shots to be mesmerizing with their richness of colors and details? Are you aware that properly chosen lighting enhances the quality of photos? The Vidoo™ studio lights bring colors to life, increase sharpness, and add depth to your images. They are ideal for those who need professional-looking photos for auctions or online stores. Excellent for portraits, beauty shots, fashion, and glamour photography. Using lights from the Vidoo™ series significantly reduces the time spent on post-processing.
Lively Colors
More light means lower ISO sensitivity, resulting in better color saturation.Sharp Image
With more light, you get shorter exposure times, less camera shake, and thus a sharper image.Richer Backgrounds
More light provides better illumination for distant subjects - the image becomes more three-dimensional.Softboxes are an essential element of a photographic studio. They are used to modify the properties of light: the size of the luminous surface, intensity, and direction. Recently, they have gained increasing popularity in video productions. An excellent alternative to kinoflo lights. Softboxes soften tonal transitions between light and shadow.
Tip: Most lighting issues within a frame often result from an excess of light rather than its absence. When setting up your lighting, start with the lamps that have the smallest contribution to the entire scene - set up the key (main) light last.
Lighting Fixture
The lighting fixture consists of a quadruple E27 bulb holder and a softbox hood (reflective and diffusing fabric, as well as tensioning rods). The shape of the hood was chosen so that the maximum amount of light falls on the diffusion fabric.
The softbox is made from high-quality materials used by leading manufacturers. On the inside, it is finished with a silver, metallic reflective surface - this prevents light emission to the back and sides and reflects it in the desired direction onto the diffusing fabric. This ensures that the maximum amount of light reaches the object being photographed. The softbox's exterior is matte black, preventing reflection of light from other lamps.
The softbox is designed to work with four bulbs of a maximum power of 85W/400W each. It allows for stepped power adjustment by turning on/off pairs of bulbs (two switches): 0%-50%-100%. The set is attached to lighting stands using a bracket that provides any angle of inclination.
Lighting Fixture Rear Panel
Controlling the lamp is very simple and limited to two switches that turn on either the left or right pair of lamps. In the socket marked "FUSE," there's a 3A fuse. In the central part, there's an opening for mounting an optional umbrella.
CGLS-815 Studio Stand
A three-section studio and outdoor lighting stand. Maximum height of 290cm, working height of 280cm, convenient section clamps, a 16mm studio head with a universal 1/4" thread. The stand is designed to work with small and medium lamps as well as lighting sets. It will also perform excellently with flashlights and continuous lights, softboxes, and halogen lamps.
Its dimensions when folded have been reduced by using a telescopic folding mechanism, thus not limiting the wide range of operation (ranging from 95 to 280 cm, adjustable smoothly to any height) and universality of applications. The leg spread (from foot to foot) is 95cm.
Photo Bulb (85W/5500K)
This presented fluorescent lamp generates light with a color ideal for photographic applications - it does not introduce any color bias. Thanks to the natural rendering of colors, this bulb is perfect for photographers working under continuous lighting conditions. Using constant lighting allows you to model light faster and better predict the final result obtained in photos. The low power consumption enables using this bulb both in open fixtures and partially closed ones (softboxes, diffusers, octas). The luminous power of an 85W bulb is equivalent to a 400W halogen lamp.
Color rendering index Ra>91.
Can I use a softbox for filming?
Absolutely. Recently, we've been observing an increasing trend of photographic applications being used in the world of film. The SOFTBOX 60x90cm light fixture is an excellent alternative to budget panel lamp versions (so-called kinoflo). The cost of such a solution is significantly lower while achieving the same effect.
What's the difference between an octagonal and rectangular softbox?
The most noticeable difference is the shape of reflections on reflective surfaces. This is particularly evident in portrait and fashion photography - the octagonal shape, similar to a circle, mimics solar reflections. Octagonal softboxes also feature a better light distribution (especially when lighting from the front).
What should you remember?
- Softboxes work best at short distances. Place them as close to the illuminated persons or objects, right on the edge of the frame.
- The larger the softbox diameter, the softer the tonal transition between light and shadow.
- If you need to illuminate from a long distance - remove the diffusing fabric. This will give you even more light.
Specifications
- Weight: 3 kg
- Dimensions: 40x40 cm
- Hood Depth: 45cm
- Working Height: 280 cm
- Idle Power: 260 W (4x 65 W)
- Luminous Power: 1300 W
- Color Temperature: 5500 K
- Sockets: 4xE27
- Adjustment: stepped 0 - 50% - 100%
- Tripod Head: standard, 16mm, 1/4"
- Power Supply: 230V, mains
How to assemble the SOFTBOX / OCTA lamp?
The lamp will arrive in a package containing: separately, the stand, bulbs, fixture, and softbox. Assembling the lamp involves several steps:
- Remove the softbox from its cover, the tensioning rods for the softbox, and the diffusing fabric. Set aside the diffusing fabric.
- From the box marked CGLX4, remove the lighting fixture. On the outer edge of the fixture (black material), there are eight openings.
- Insert the glass fiber rods into the openings in the lighting fixture. It's important to insert the rods with their THICKER end into the fixture. They should go in with a slight resistance.
- Lay the softbox fabric (hood) on the floor so that the black material touches the floor, and the silver side faces upward. Leave the Velcro straps unfastened.
- Place the lighting fixture on the silver surface. Insert the thinner ends of the rods into the pockets sewn in the corners of the softbox hood.
- As you insert more rods, the softbox hood will start to stretch over the bending rods. It may be necessary to use a small amount of force, especially with octagonal softboxes.
- After assembling the hood, spread out the lighting stand and attach the fixture to it. Tighten the butterfly screws and fasten the Velcro straps at the back of the hood.
- Secure the bulbs in the fixture.
- Attach the diffusing fabric by fastening it with the Velcro straps to the hood.
SOFTBOX 40x40 Lamp - What Can You Use It For
- Main or supplementary light in portraits
- Main or supplementary light in nudes and fashion photography
- Childhood (including newborn) photography
- Product Photography
- Film studio, film set (close-ups, interviews, presentations)
- Napięcie
- 230V
- Lighting type
- Continuous
- Color temperature
- 5500K
- Number of bulbs
- 4
- Fixing
- E27
- Power
- 65
- Emission type
- Fluorescence
- Shape
- Square
- Set type
- With softbox
- Series
- Vidoo™
- Softbox size
- 40x40
- Total power
- 260
CineGEN® — studio equipment designed by practitioners
CineGEN® is a Polish studio equipment brand we created in 2011 in Janki near Warsaw. We don't have 35 years of tradition or offices on two continents — what we do have is around 40,000 orders with CineGEN® products fulfilled every year and 15 years of working with light, which taught us what actually works in a studio.
The brand was born for a simple reason: selling other people's equipment, we too often had to explain flaws we had no control over. We preferred taking responsibility to making excuses — so we started building our own.
How we work
Specifications and part of the designs are created in Poland; manufacturing takes place in China, under our supervision. We say this openly, because that's how studio equipment is made all over the world today. The difference lies in who sets the requirements and who answers for the result: every batch arrives at our warehouse in Janki, where we inspect it, and before a product enters our catalogue, we work with it ourselves — on packshots, portraits and video shoots.
Our product descriptions state real parameters and real limitations. A 200 PLN lamp won't replace a 2,000 PLN kit — and we won't pretend otherwise.
What you'll find under the CineGEN® brand
Continuous lighting (FlatLight™, Lumifi™, ReLed™, Ensö™ panels with CRI >95), Ignitix™ photographic bulbs, softboxes and light modifiers, lighting, photo and video stands and tripods (including the Jupiter™ series), and home studio kits.
What we stand behind
CineGEN® is a trademark protected at the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland (application Z.574925, rights held by Digishots Sp. z o.o.).
Warranty service and spare parts are handled at our facility in Janki — no shipping your gear "back to the manufacturer".
You can see the equipment in person at our location in Janki (ul. Poniatowskiego 17), and you'll find tests and tutorials on the digishots.pl blog and the CineGEN YouTube channel.
CineGEN® is a proprietary brand of Digishots Sp. z o.o., ul. Poniatowskiego 17, 05-090 Janki, Poland, KRS 0001135340.