MagMod Beauty Dish XL 20: a collapsible, magnetic beauty dish built for portraits on the move

If you shoot portraits, beauty or fashion on location, the MagMod Beauty Dish XL 20 is a modifier worth a closer look. It takes the classic 20-inch beauty dish — normally a bulky, awkward thing to transport — and reimagines it as a collapsible, magnetic modifier that packs flat, built around MagMod’s familiar magnetic modular system. For anyone who has wrestled a rigid metal dish into a kit bag, that alone is a meaningful quality-of-life improvement. The clever part is the construction. Rather than rigid metal, the Beauty Dish XL 20 uses a durable metallic-silicone material with a hardened steel ring, so it collapses down for transport and storage yet holds its shape in use — and shrugs off the knocks that dent traditional dishes. MagMod reckons it should outlast pricier metal reflectors, and the collapsibility means it’s far more likely to actually come with you on a shoot. You...