Rosco Color Gels for Your Shoe-Mounted Flash

strobist Rosco kit

David Hobby, the ever-present Strobist, has worked with Rosco to create a “Strobist Kit” of the common colored gels used for color correcting your on or off-camera flash lighting. Sized for most shoe-mounted flash units, the kits contain:

5 each of
Cinegel #3202 Full CTB (change to blue)
Cinegel #3204 1/2 CTB
Cinegel #3208 1/4 CTB
Cinegel #3401 Sun 85 CTO (change to orange, converts 5500K to 3200K)
Cinegel #3408 Sun 1/2 CTO
Cinegel #3409 Sun 1/4 CTO
Roscolux #08 Pale Gold (warming with pink for skin tones)
Cinegel #3304 Tough Plusgreen (color correction for cool white flourescent)

2 each of
Cinegel #3415 N.15 Neutral Density
Cinegel #3403 N.6 ND
Cinegel #3404 N.9 ND

1 each of
Roscolux #12 Straw (yellow)
Roscolux #23 Orange
Roscolux #26 Light red
Roscolux #33 No Color Pink
Roscolux #39 Skeleton Exotic Sangria (magenta)
Roscolux #358 Rose Indigo (purple)
Roscolux #80 Primary Blue
Roscolux #375 Cerulean Blue (cyan)
Roscolux #90 Dark Yellow Green

The kit can be ordered from any of a number of distributors for $9.95. See this Rosco page for your favorite distributor.

One Response to “Rosco Color Gels for Your Shoe-Mounted Flash”

  1. Tracey Says:

    Thanks for your post. My favorite distributor to use is StageSpot.com. They have a good selection of rosco gels. Hope this helps!

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