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# How to pronounce "softbox" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/sɒftbɒks/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **sof·tbox**
- **Parts of Speech**: noun
- **NOUN**: A photographic lighting device consisting of a bulb with reflective back and side walls and a diffusing material at the front.
  - *Example*: "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)."

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (8 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "softbox" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "And you probably already know what I'm going to use, right? Softbox, or in this case it's called strip box because it's narrow. But basically it's softbox."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__yx795fsSc&t=1153s)

### Example 2
> "This was my first softbox that I did."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCUeYVoLAfc&t=310s)

### Example 3
> "But basically it's softbox."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__yx795fsSc&t=1156s)

### Example 4
> "So I was building my own softbox at home."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCUeYVoLAfc&t=305s)

### Example 5
> "is rock in a sigma 70 to 200 and the one rigged pointed straight down from above has a canon 70 to 200 focus right on that table the lighting is super simple it's just this trio of led softbox lights full brightness filling in any possible shadows and reflecting off the table to create light around the object on lou and even this nice you know recognizable gradient on the background as you've seen and you can't forget audio there is a shotgun microphone"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZjlFZ3_b9E&t=209s)

### Example 6
> "I had no money to buy like a softbox or something."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCUeYVoLAfc&t=301s)

### Example 7
> "This is the same thing, larger softbox."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 20:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__yx795fsSc&t=1243s)

### Example 8
> "the sort of lighting look that's been dialed in so the room of course is lit with overhead lights there are 5,000 Kelvin just LED overhead lights nothing special but that's just lighting the room straight down from the top so lighting me in this set is a sky panel a 60 C with a 4-foot gigantic softbox on it its massive but I've gone through a bunch of different key lights in my time and this one's turned into my favorite just because it's so incredibly powerful"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKyul7puruQ&t=170s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [soapbox](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/soapbox)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "softbox" correctly?
"softbox" is pronounced `/sɒftbɒks/`. Syllable breakdown: **sof·tbox**.

### What does "softbox" mean in context?
A photographic lighting device consisting of a bulb with reflective back and side walls and a diffusing material at the front.

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