softbox

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English

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Etymology

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From soft +‎ box.

Noun

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softbox (plural softboxes)

  1. (photography) A photographic lighting device consisting of a bulb with reflective back and side walls and a diffusing material at the front.
    • 2008 May 21, Eric Konigsberg, “A Chronicler of Night-Life Melancholy, Looking for Contradictory Layers”, in New York Times[1]:
      Mr. Tamindzic, a lanky 6 feet 3 inches tall, all legs and elbows, was purposeful and obvious, with a hefty Canon EOS 5D camera in one hand and a LumiQuest softbox flash in the other (to throw up a noirish, crime-scene photographer’s burst of intense light).