The price of diffuse light

[olegvolk]

Originally published at VolkStudio Blog. You can comment here or there.

Until recently, I used a 10ft x 20ft popup tent for getting softer light on sunny days. Bought for $1200, the tent lasted five years and was well worth the expense and the effort required to set it up. A couple of weeks ago, the tent was damaged by a storm and repairing it would

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[cramer]

If it's everything in the picture, it says $543. But yes, they screw you over for something that costs 1/10th that to actually make.

(Note: a friend of mine builds most of hist gear for this very reason. 'tho he did eventually pay for the expensive, custom built 3d -- stereographic -- camera, instead of two cameras on a bar.)