Comparison between brand name vs. cheap beauty dish?

9 years 1 week ago #435953 by Prago
I'm shopping around for a beauty dish and seeing prices are all over the place.  Have any of you compared the differences between the inexpensive ones and the brand name ones?  I have done the best I can comparing online images and unless I'm missing something, these look pretty darn close to the same.  I'm not seeing many differences?  

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9 years 1 week ago #435980 by KCook
I have a cheap silver BD.  The light coverage is uneven.  But a white finish, instead of silver, may not be so bad.  I find that I don't need my BD a whole lot, so I'm kinda glad I did not sink a lot of $$ in it.

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9 years 1 week ago #436031 by Ontherocks
How often do you plan on use a BD?


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9 years 1 week ago #436033 by Screamin Scott
There are different types of beauty dishes from the inexpensive Polaroid unit that straps onto a speedlight to larger floor standing units... Your budget & intended use determines what unit to get . The larger floor standing units will give you a better result, but at a cost.

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