Absolutely. Photography is all about the capture of light. Light allows your camera to work at its best, reducing grainy noise, or blurring in the image. And bigger, softer light reduces the harshness of any shadows, blemishes and bumps on your face. BIGSOFTI brings film set inspired lighting into your pocket.

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BIGSOFTI has been designed with a universal clip that makes it suitable for all leading smartphone brands. We focussed on functionality for the iPhone X, XS, MAX, the Samsung Galaxy S9, S10, the Google Pixel 2, 3. Because it can be attached to any side of any phone, chances are it will work with yours.

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Our universal clip means BIGSOFTI will fit all leading laptop brands too. With soft rubber stoppers, and a super resilient. flexible material - chances are it will work with yours.

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No. Our universal clip has been designed with the soft rubber stoppers so while they can hold on tight, you’ll never have to worry about the risk of scratching.

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Yep with our 3M Adhesive mount, you can also affix BIGSOFTI to any general surface for extra versatility.

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BIGSOFTI also comes with a cold-shoe mount to fit on your regular DSLR or mirrorless camera for perfect soft, diffused light. Weighing only an incredible 75 grams, there is nearly no added weight so you can shoot handheld all day and night. It also has a 1/4” thread in the bottom so it can be mounted to a small tripod or light stand for maximum versatility.

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Definitely - by adding more than one to your kit, you can key, fill, and backlight. The universal clip, shoe mount and 1/4” thread means you can attach them any which way you need. And it’s so light that in a tight spot, you could easily gaffer tape it into a hidden spot for that perfect soft light in any situation.

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BIGSOFTI will be shipped from our fulfilment centre to you, nearly anywhere in the world.

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The good news is that BIGSOFTI is small and lightweight, so any multipack purchases will be charged as only single postage fees, so please consider ordering for someone else too, to help us cut down on shipping costs and air miles. We will be working hard to secure you the best shipping prices.

During these uncertain times for the world, shipping costs have gone up significantly, however, we believe these prices should return to normal as the global situation improves. To therefore minimise costs for our backers, we will not be charging the current higher shipping charges at the time of pledging.

Shipping, Taxes (and VAT / GST) will be calculated and paid for towards the end of the campaign, just before we ship out to our supporters. This is being managed through our pledge manager partner who will be in contact via email.

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We’d love to learn more about you if you’re interested! Please send us a mail at [email protected] with more information and your formal proposal.

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BIGSOFTI is really bright. We can’t really cite an exact figure at this stage - as once we go into final production, further fine tuning is going to take place as we balance the final injection moulded diffusion panel and the LED output. This can’t happen until we have the tooling and can begin to do refined testing around the material makeup of the panel. At that stage we’ll have our final lab testing done and can share all the output info. So just cautious about claiming a figure that will likely change prior to shipping. But we currently aren’t using the LEDs at their max output by a long shot. So, it’s got a lot of punch. But we’re also focussed on achieving a super high clarity of light output, not just lumen output.

It has 3 settings - LOW - MED - HIGH - that can be easily selected to get the desired illumination.

HIGH Use for lighting a bigger area, a group chat or group photo. This is so bright, it can used as exterior daylight fill. MED Use in a vibrant busy space, or for taking photos of more than one subject. This will probably be your regular evening setting. LOW Use for intimate low lit settings like a restaurant or a corner of a darker bar or club.

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BIGSOFTI is powered by a custom designed lithium poly battery. We are in the final stages of testing battery designs at 1000mAh, 1200mAh and 1500mAh - and will be making sure we get the most efficient power source in there. But at the moment our run time looks like this:

HIGH - up to 95 min* - VERY BRIGHT AT NIGHT MED - up to 140 min* - REGULAR USE AT NIGHT LOW - up to 240 min* - LOW LIT SCENES

(*Guide - charge is subject to things like battery age and weather conditions etc)

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BIGSOFTI charges with a USB-C connection and comes with a USB-C charging cable. It can also be used while plugged in and charging - which means it essentially can be run on mains power for any long duration shoots.

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Currently, it takes around 2 hours to charge from fully flat

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We’ve made BIGSOFTI as big as possible so it can throw lovely soft light - while giving it a similar sized footprint to your smartphone. It is 110mm wide, 54mm high and 12mm thick. When it comes to lighting - bigger is definitely better.

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We need to keep a few things hush-hush ahead of going into production - but BIGSOFTI will be utilising over 60 high CRI bi-colour LEDs to create the lovely soft diffused light output.

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The Colour Rendering Index or CRI (originally created for industrial and architectural scenarios) measures how accurately a light source reproduces colours on a scale from 1 to 100. 100 being the colour reproduced by daylight as the benchmark for colour reproduction. The LEDs in BIGSOFTI are classed as High CRI - rated at 95+

However, a more important rating when it comes to LEDs is the Television Lighting Consistency Index or TLCI. It also runs a scale from 0-100. The LEDs in BIGSOFTI are rated at TLCI 98+ This puts our LEDs in the range where any colour variation is so small, a film colourist would not consider correcting it. These are class leading numbers resulting in better looking images for you.

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Colour temperature is the way cinematographers and photographers describe ‘white’ light. At one end of colour spectrum is DAYLIGHT - which is a cooler (think blue) coloured white. At the other is TUNGSTEN which is the colour of traditional incandescent light bulbs - a much warmer (think yellow) light. The difference can be seen in your home if you switch on a lamp during the day - both can be called ‘white’ light - but you will easily see that one feel warmer than the other.

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BIGSOFTI allows full control of your lighting so can switch between 3 settings:

1 - Clean White This is the default setting and will be the right choice in most situations. It sits in between the DAYLIGHT and the TUNGSTEN to give a subtle clean mix.

2 - Daylight This is the cooler coloured white. It would be used typically outside during the day where there is predominantly daylight filling in the shot. Or inside to light a subject who is backlit from exterior windows.

3 - Tungsten This is the warmer coloured white. It would be used inside at night, when the other lights around you were likely to be warmer tungsten bulbs.

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You bet! With a design that is Patent Pending with IP Australia - App. No. 2020901506 and made with class-leading LED and electronic components - BIGSOFTI is changing the way we take photos.

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Please follow this link to access our press kit -

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1pg2_g6XusYIGC2YH5g835vgWjpVw9Vsa

And also please feel free to reach out at [email protected] - and we’ll be happy to help arrange any other assets you might need.

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