This looks like a really cool product.. the Lastolite Ezybox Hotshoe. It is a new portable softbox for shoe mount flashguns that is advertised to give your portable flash a studio light quality. If you have dealt with softboxes, you know that assembling and disassembling them can be the material for a sitcom. If you carry them on location, that makes this especially problematic. Lastolite has taken the concept of the collapsible background/reflector, and applied it to their softboxes. They have three softboxes of various sizes in the Ezybox line. Now they have added one designed just for hotshoe mounted flashguns.
From what I've read about the Lastolite Ezybox Hotshoe, it will work with any hotshoe mounted flashgun. It is also designed to fold up very easily and compactly for travel. It looks like this will sell for under $200 in the US, but thus far I've not found anyone that has them in stock. B&H carries 12 pages of Lasolite products, so I would assume that they will carry it. With a couple of these and a pair of high powered flashguns, it could make a good "easy to setup" kit for on location portraits. The only question I have is the size. Its kind of small, so probably would only be useful for headshots.
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Lastolite EzyBox Hotshoe
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