Wellmaking Bowens Mount Optical Snoot Conical, Flash Projector Attachment, Spotlight Snoot Photography Video Artist Modelling Shape Light Studio with Optical Lens Various Gobos Photography Accessories

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 !

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!

PROScomes with projection lenscomes with gobosCONSlens loses focus on the edgesthe gobo holder does not hold the gobos wellcannot easily rotate the gobo patternthe included gobos patterns are not good enoughfocusing stickyMy main goal is to project a sun through the window look on the wall. This wellmaking snoot kind of does it but leaves more to be desired.Firstly, the gobo holder has two spring metal strips to hold the gobo in place. Except the spring metal strips are not very springy and become loose after I put in and remove a few gobos (first 2 days). Now the gobos would fall out of the holder unless I keep the holder in an upright orientation.If you want to rotate the pattern, there is no easy way. You have to take out the gobo holder, rotate the gobo in the holder, then put the gobo holder back into the snoot.If you focus the pattern sharply on the wall, the center portion would be in focus but the edges would be out of focus. This is actually OK with me because I want the whole pattern to be out of focus. The fact that some areas are more out of focus than others is not a problem.If you look at how outside light project onto a perpendicular wall through the window, they form a parallelogram, not a rectangle. Of all the gobos supplied, most are rectangular; only one is parallelogram shaped and it is not the one I want most -- windows blinds.I have never used a snoot like this before, so I can't compared it to others; but intuition tells me there must be better ones out there. However if you have limited budget, this may work ok.P.S. I checked out various competitions and concluded the wellmaking unit, at its price, is a pretty good deal. I'll deal with the limitations

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

Been using it for over a year and still works smoothly. Not so heavy and it fits perfectly.

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.

Love this snoot! Super easy to set up and use, so much fun and I'm so excited about taking my photography and videos to the next level with this! It's amazing! Also, the Wellmaking customer service is excellent! I had a little problem with my delivery on my end and they came through so fast and beyond my expectations!