The LiteDome®: medium (24 x 32-inch) is our most popular soft box model due to its simplicity and high-performance design. Originally designed almost 25 years ago, we have spent countless hours enhancing the features of this soft box over the past two decades. The LiteDome is the highest quality soft box on the market.

The LiteDome is intended for use with strobe or cool lights. The material of the LiteDome is not rated for the heat produced by continuous hot lights. New for 2009 is a brand new product logo design. Each carry bag and logo clearly defines the size of the soft box.

Customize to suit your needs

The LiteDome is designed to complement and work alongside your additional photography and lighting equipment. The LiteDome’s recessed face allows you the freedom to add your own custom lighting accessories, such as grids, barn doors or other dome accessories. You can also make your own custom diffusion sheets with materials such as Rosco Tufflux, a velum material available in rolls or individual sheets. You can also modify the internal baffle ring by adding foam core for a varied effect. The recessed Velcro face truly allows you the ultimate in customization options, a feature not found on other brands.

Please note: Strobe Connectors are sold separately.

Features and Benefits

Materials

We hold very high standards for all the materials we use, and the LiteDome soft box fabric is no exception. Not only does the interior need to be able to reflect light optimally, to be color-balanced, and to prevent light from traveling through the fabric, it needs to be able to hold up to the test of time: repeated setups and teardowns.

After years of development, we came up with a fabric we call DuraCloth that strikes the perfect balance of a tight, reflective weave and flexibility for folding. But it’s not just the fabric that makes it perform well; it’s the special coating we apply to the fabric to ensure that it stays optimally reflective, color neutral, UV proof, and highly durable. Other soft box fabrics simply don’t measure up.

Removable Face & Baffle

The LiteDome: medium has two layers of removable diffusion to keep the light smooth and even, as well as to prevent hot spots from showing up in reflectors. The removable face attaches to the soft box via high-grade Velcro®. This allows you to increase the contrast of your light for a variety of applications. The removable baffle is suspended in the middle of the LiteDome also allowing you the option to create soft, diffused buttery light or high contrast light. The face is about 1-stop loss.  We also have new quarter and half-stop face accessories that attach to the recessed front of the soft box adding to your diffusion options. The recessed face has two inches of Velcro, which allows for the addition of grids.

Baffle Clips

Our baffle clips ensure that the internal baffle stays attached no matter how many times you open and close the soft box. And the elastic hoops of the baffle that the clips lock into keep the baffle taut and flat.

QRC

Our medium, large and extra large soft boxes are designed with our patented QRC (quick-release corners) that we developed in order to reduce the pressure on the rod so that you could assemble and teardown the LiteDome with ease and speed. QRC was first implemented in the LiteDome product line in 2000. QRC was designed due to the classic problem with setting up soft boxes: the tension of the rods when inserting into a connector can make for a difficult and frustrating experience. QRC is designed so that when the Velcro flap at the corner of the box is opened the pressure is reduced on the rod so that the rod can be easily removed from the connector.

Steel-tipped Rods

Our rods are strong and resilient--able to maintain the taut shape of a soft box, yet flexible enough to angle easily into connectors. All rods on our soft boxes are replaceable. This feature sounds basic, but in reality, many brands have sewn-in rods. With sewn-in rods, if one or more rods becomes bent or broken the soft box is more or less rendered useless, and full replacement is necessary. With Photoflex soft boxes having replacement rods, individual rods can be replaced at a modest charge. Some pros might even buy a couple extra rods before getting in a jam—a trademark of a true professional planning ahead for the unforeseen occurrences in the photography, film and video industries.

Suspension Loops

At the front corner of the LiteDome there are little loops people have asked us “what do these loops do?” Originally when we started building these LiteDomes a lot of people who were in studios, were using rail systems, and those were kind of popular in the 1980s, they’re not so popular anymore.   Many people still want to be able to hang strobes from the ceiling to open up floor space in a studio. In fact—that’s what we’ve done at the Photoflex studio! We have a huge LiteDome: extra large suspended above our set all of the time, it’s there to use when the occasion arises. With the advent of radio slave triggers for strobes, users have the ability to set off triggers wirelessly. Without wires and cables connecting a camera to a strobe, users now have the flexibility to move further away from their strobes, so the option of suspending a strobe in a soft box is terrific feature. So these four loops we’ve been building on for a long time enable you to hang your soft box from the ceiling on lines that you can raise and lower so that you have the ability to use the soft box without having to use a light stand.

Back Closure

When it comes to soft boxes, any professional wants a product that produces the optimum light output. A weak point of many soft boxes is light spill at the back of the unit. This can greatly impact the potential of the light source. We’ve designed our back closure with Velcro tabs to secure tightly around the light source. This keeps the light from leaking out the back of your soft box, which does two things: first, you lose power because you want light to go out the front and second, you have stray light in your studio that could bounce off a wall and be detrimental to the desired lighting affect on your set.

Identifiable Nylon Carry Bag

Even our carry bags have gone through revisions! There’s now a little extra room in the width of our carry cases to allow you to get the LiteDome in and out of it quickly and easily. The opening flap extends a few inches longer to ensure that no stray rods make their way out of the bag, and now the outside of every bag has a printed description of the size and make of the soft box it contains. So if you have more than one soft box, you’ll quickly be able to identify the one you’re after.

The Photoflex Difference
Lighting may be the most important investment that you make in your photography equipment. We value the integrity of our soft boxes so highly that we offer the longest soft box warranty in the world—six years against manufacturer’s defects. Many other manufacturers offer warranties as little as 30 days!

Photoflex is committed to providing you with equipment that will not only last, but has intuitive design features that will allow you greater freedom in producing and controlling the light for your images.