Phottix Premio Reflective Umbrella, White & Black - 85cm

The Phottix Premio Reflective Umbrella, White & Black - 85cm is a premium, highly portable light-shaping modifier engineered for on-location portraitists, event photographers, and studio artists who require a clean, expansive, and flattering light quality. Differing from low-cost, easily bent studio umbrellas, the Premio series utilizes heavy-duty fiberglass support architecture that yields structural rigidity while producing near-circular reflections.

The matte reflective white interior treatment behaves as a highly efficient bounce surface, maximizing light dispersion and preserving pristine color fidelity across any skin tone or fabric texture.

Product Features in Detail

Matte Reflective White Diffusion Facade
The interior of the Premio umbrella is coated with a premium matte white material designed to scatter and widen your flash or continuous light source’s native beam. This creates a beautifully soft light source with an incredibly smooth gradient from highlights to shadows, while keeping your contrast levels moderate and manageable.

Pure Color-Neutral Spectral Rendition
Unlike generic white reflective backings that can introduce warm yellow or cool blue color casts into your scene, Phottix utilizes a strictly color-neutral white formulation. This ensures your light source's true color temperature is reflected accurately onto your subject, saving you time spent adjusting white balance and skin tones during editing.

Heavy-Duty Fiberglass Structural Support Ribs
Moving away from fragile, easily dented aluminum or steel rods, this umbrella features high-tensile fiberglass support ribs. This heavy-duty framing can flex and bend under field stress or wind without permanently warping, ensuring the umbrella retains its deep, curved profile over years of heavy use.

Organic, Circular Eye Catchlight Reflection
The multi-rib fiberglass matrix is mapped symmetrically around the central shaft to pull the white fabric taut into a highly rounded shape. When placed close to a portrait subject, this geometry reflects a soft, organic circular catchlight in their eyes that beautifully mimics the appearance of natural daylight or premium studio beauty dishes.

High-Efficiency Opaque Black External Backing
The outside of the umbrella is wrapped in a dense, light-blocking black canvas. This structural backing prevents light from spilling out the back of the modifier, ensuring all of your light is pushed forward onto your subject. It also blocks ambient room lights from bleeding through the fabric and contaminating your lighting setup.

Flexible Bag-to-Softbox Optional Upgrade Path
To maximize your kit's travel utility, the umbrella is engineered with an optional upgrade path. By slipping an optional elastic-fit fabric diffuser over the open end of the umbrella, you can instantly block any remaining direct metallic shaft reflection and turn the entire system into a high-performance, rapid-folding front-facing softbox.