Mounting a speedlight on a softbox with a Super Clamp

I figured out a way to mount a speedlight on a cheap softbox meant for studio flashes.

 

See also view inside softbox.

 

What you need:

- a Manfrotto (=Bogen) Super Clamp

- The AS-19 speedlight stand that comes at least with SB-800 and SB-600 flashes

- a male spigot (brass stud) that screws in the bottom of the AS-19 and can be inserted in the Super Clamp.

- A softbox with wide enough speed ring. Mine is a cheap Elinchrom Portalite from a D-Lite 4 kit.

 

Mounting a speedlight is simple, once you figure out the tricks.

1) Mount the Super Clamp at the edge of the softbox, as seen in the photo.

2) Screw the male spigot in the 1/4" hole at the bottom of the AS-19 speedlight stand

3) Put the AS-19 on the Super Clamp. Turn is to that the middle flash shoe is outside the softbox. This positions the other two flash shoes on the AS-19 conveniently inside the softbox.

4) Slide the speedlight on either of the flash shoes and rotate the head to point at the front of the softbox

5) Engage the built-in diffuser to get even light distribution on the surface of the softbox. A diffuser cup could also be used to get still more even light, but this was good enough for me.

6) Now go out an shoot some nice photos.

Done