Honlphoto 1/4" Honeycomb Speed Grid for Shoe Mount Portable Flashes
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RICHARD T : Anyone know approximately how many stops this grid takes out?ROGER A : I just did a test with a Canon 550EX on manual, 1/4 power, about 4' from the meter: Got a reading on my flash meter of f16.4 without the Honl grid and a reading of f11.6 with the Honl so it looks like it drops about one stop. Hope this helps.SEAN M : Zero. It's not actually impeding the light, it is merely preventing spill-off. The spot of light will be small, but it will be just as powerful as the flash can provide.RONALD S : I wouldn't say it takes out any stops. It is meant to focus the light on a smaller area of your photo. It would only make it darker around the outside of the flashes focused area. I hope that helps.MONICO I : Richard,
I don't think that the 1/4 grid (or any grid) takes out stops. At least not directly in front of the light. What it will do is control how light falls off your subject (how much background gets illuminated by your flash). I suppose that you could call the effect taking out stops of light as you move away from the center, but I don't usually measure this with a meter. Instead I work by feel (moving the light closer and powering down, moving the light further back and powering up, using the 1/8 grid instead, etc.) and make decisions about how it looks with my cameras LCD or (if I'm tethered) on my computer screen. I own several of these grids and I use them when I want to control my light. When I need to take a stop or two out of a light (at it's lowest setting) I use a neutral density gel over the flash head.
I hope this helps.