Shopping CartBower SFDRF Digital MACRO Ring Light Flash for Nikon, Canon, Pentax & Olympus Digital and 35mm SLR Cameras
date : October 11th, 2011Pentax Flash
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Tags : 35mm, Bower, Cameras, Canon, Digital, Flash, Light, Macro, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, Ring, SFDRF
- Tripod Socket, Built-In diffuser, Multi-function on / off / test fire switch
- Use off lens for creative lighting control, Compact Ring flash head weighs only 4.2oz
- Offers a choice of manual or auto-sensor control
- Connect directly with 58mm lenses, and includes 3 adapter rings (52mm, 55mm, and 62mm)
- Provides diffuse, color corrected and shadow free light, Fires as fast as 1/50,000th of a second to freeze movement
The SFDRF Digital Macro Ring Flash is the convenient and creative lighting solution for copying documents, medical, dental, nature and small subject photography. Utilizing a circular tube as its light source for just the right amount of illumination, at short working distances, where built-in and conventional flash units are hard to use, it might even be the only way possible to light your subject. Unlike complicated, bulky and expensive OEM ring flashes, the SFDRF will operate with any current,
works even better than expected,
This ring flash is wonderful. First thing, it really is a ring flash, not a ring light. That means vastly more light, albeit in a similarly shorter period. It is much more powerful than I thought it would be. Even at 1/250 and f/16, I get a great close-up exposure.
For over a year, I used a Canon S1 IS (Image Stabilization) digital camera. My new Nikon D80 camera is wonderful but Nikon locates their image stabilization not in the camera, but in their VR (Vibration Reduction) lenses. I need extra depth of field so I have to use higher-numbered (smaller-diameter iris) f-stops. That means long exposures. Handheld photos have too much shake with the long exposures. Since I haven’t saved enough pennies (and it takes lots and lots of them) to buy a VR lens, my close-up photos are fuzzy unless I put them on a tripod. Tripod is synonymous with heavy, bulky, clunky, cumbersome, and loathed.
More light is a solution but my D80′s integral flash casts unwanted deep shadows. The Bower SFDRF Digital MACRO Ring Light Flash doesn’t cast those shadows and gives me so much light I can take 1/250th of a second exposures at f/16. That means I can handhold my camera in my shaky paws and take spontaneous sharp close-up photos.
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|Blew out on third flash.,
Everything is cheap about this product. The circuit board fried on the third shot. Warranty non-exsistant, since you have to pay to ship both ways. There was no way I was going to sink more cash into this. That surge when it blew could have taken out my camera and lens. Bite the bullet and go with a real product, or work around it.
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|Ok product, not for the professional though!,
We purchased this product to reduce shadows and glare on items being photographed with close up macro photography for sale at online auctions. It works fairly well, but will need some help from you to be worth it.
The flash is too “hot” at its stock settings. You’ll need to adjust your camera to compensate for the overexposure or try to fix it in a photo editing program. The settings are not adjustable on the flash.
The cable from battery pack to flash is short and has too much tension. If you try to use autofocus, it pulls the lens out of focus causing the camera to constantly attempt to readjust. If you then try manual focus, the tension is enough to pull it out of focus if using a sensitive lens. I’ve tried stretching the cord out, but it hasn’t helped much. The construction is also almost entirely thin plastic, from the foot and battery pack to the flash. I’d be very careful not to knock the battery pack against anything too hard or you’ll be out a flash.
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