Hey everyone, it's Rob from Hypop.
So I've got with me one of Godox's
more popular softboxes here.
It's the SB-GUE-95.
It's a collapsible style soft box.
And I'm just running through the setup on how to do that.
Inside the carry pouch, you'll find four parts.
You've got the softbox cover.
You've also got the honeycomb grid.
You've got diffusers and also the softbox frame.
The unique thing about this softbox
is that it's collapsible.
So all you need to do is
feed the soft box cover over the frame.
Now, being an octagon softbox,
it means that there's eight rods to feed through.
The rods have little rods sleeves
all along the edges of the softbox here.
So make sure that they're inserted fully.
Otherwise when you go to expand the softbox,
it won't be tight enough
or you won't be able to expand it correctly
So I've now got all of the eight rods into the softbox
as you can see there.
You need to line up the center frame here
through the umbrella rod.
And you just need to push down to expand.
So if you haven't inserted them
all the way into their rods sleeve,
you'll have a hard time doing this.
So you need to make sure that that's done correctly.
Now on the other end here,
you'll see that there are some Velcro closures.
You can leave one open because
when you go to mount it onto your softbox,
you'll need room for your hand
to just mount that directly onto the Bowens mount.
Now, this is the initial setup.
So you'll only need to do this one time
when you're setting up the softbox.
When you go to use it another time,
all you need to do is just collapse it down,
push down on the center column,
release the umbrella locking mechanism and collapse.
And then when you go to use it again,
there you go, easy as that.
And you have some diffusers here.
So there are two diffusers.
There's the inner and outer diffuser.
The inner diffuser has a ring there
that allows you to feed it through the umbrella stem.
And there's eight Velcro tabs that you just need to line up.
Then you've got the outer diffuser which is also Velcro,
and that just lines up all along the edge here of the softbox.
Now, the edge of the softbox is quite thick.
So when you're attaching the outer diffuser,
just attach it into the inner edge of the softbox there.
That leaves space for the honeycomb grid.
There you go.
Softbox is set up.
You can see I've left a bit of an edge here
for the honeycomb grid.
And that's where you'll go attach your honeycomb grid
which is also Velcro.
Now your softbox is setup.