HonlPhoto 8-inch Regular Speed Snoot for most On-Camera Shoe-Mount Strobes

If you're into lighting at all, this is definitely a useful tool. While I love DIY stuff, and had a DIY snoot for a while, I love the quality, durability, ease of use and professional look of Honl products, including this snoot.While some have criticized the cost of David Honl's products, I find his prices more than fair when compared with the quality of the products. Along with this, I've purchased the speed strap and a flag/barn door, and am actually waiting for delivery on some Honl Grid attachments that I just ordered from Adorama. I plan to buy even more of his products in the future.

I use this mostly as a flash reflector, not a snoot. The Honl ads show and discuss it being used this way. It works well, and the photos often turn out awesome. I use it for a lot of close-in portraits, and using a large and asymmetric reflector like this adds a lot of great shadows to faces. It's very moldable, so you can make off-axis light sources very easily with it.But I've got a gripe with it, which is that it does a lousy job of staying in place. The fabric is thick but still pretty floppy, and for many of my shots, it's fallen over (from vertical), or collapsed on itself. I think it could really use to be made of stiffer fabric, and/or have more stiffening around the edges. There is some, but not much. Also, more velcro around the edges would help it stay rigidly on the flash better. As it is, there's just a few points of contact of velcro, and that adds to its floppiness. I've beefed it up with more velcro myself (a bunch of dots of the self-adhesive stuff) but for $30, they should make it right.Another minor issue: I think the interior should be made of white fabric, not the silver/grey that it is. All the grey does is absorb light, and the purpose of a reflector is to reflect it. A lighter color would allow for more shots on a charge of the batteries.

(copy of my review of the 5" snoot from Honl)The title says it all - these doodads are durable and easy to use. Yeah, they're $20, and that will buy a lot of duct tape to skin the cardboard for a home made job, but I save the home made stuff for custom shapes: this (and the 5") are great tools, always in the bag, and in constant use.Highly recommended.

Wow. Talk about your dishonest advertising. I have a Canon Speedlite and the snoot is too big. The 2 sides of the velcro completely overlap and don't even touch when you wrap it tight enough to fit. The photo clearly shows the snoot as fitting around the flash without the use of the strap.I have ordered the strap but I don't hold out much hope as the fabric is very stiff, I don't see how it could hold it in place.I imagine I will be sending them both back. I am hoping though that it works out and that I will be back to eat my words!

I hate when companies do this. They show you a picture of the snoot and the strap and nowhere does it say the strap isn't included. And if it does it's intentionally deceptive. You have to buy a $10 strap with this thing. So plan on spending $40+ if you want to actually attach it to your flash.

Simple as that. It needs more "Velcro". It's also not as obedient to my wishes as what I thought I was paying for. The layers of fabric and stitching make it resistant to rolling into a nice neat tube.I'm keeping it because it does the job, and looks professional when I get it out, but it feels more like an intermediate prototype which was rushed to market rather than a well designed and field tested product.

This product has exceeded my expectations. If you are like me that didn't know if you should get this one or the smaller unit, go for this one. A lot more control over your light and it will also act as a bigger diffuser (softer light).

Works ok but when opened up to bounce light off of, it won't stay open. I saw a similar product (Rogue I think) that had a built in wire that helped it hold its shape when opened up. As a snoot, its great, but as something to bounce light off of, not so good.