Flash Light with LCD Display Adapter Rings and Flash Diff-Users for Canon Nikon and Other DSLR Cameras

Super product exceeding all expectations. The macro photographs it produces are excellent , in both light coverage and sharpness. Easy to set up and use , and certainly one of those products thats all about experimenting and trying different ideas and options. Highly recommended .

For the money and what I want it for is very good, On a C sensor camera with macro it is a bit of hit and miss with flash, but with the light on it is excellent, my C lens is 72mm and zoom out you get the ring on the photo as with the full frame with a 77mm. Not tried it on my D750 but it should be ok. It does work on my Nikon Z6II but again better results with light on as flash is hit and miss but the more you use it you can manage the settings on the flash & camera... On the camera.. the 72mm the flash sits as it shoul with L&R as it should, a problem with the 77mm and a bit longer lens the ring will not sit correctly so L&R becomes top & bottom as the cable pulls the ring & also the ring sits loose on the 77mm adaptor. To sum up it is great for what I need it for and money well spent,

I've been tempted by a ring flash for ages, but was always put off by the price. At 25 quid (at the time of writing), this seems almost too good to be true. When they gave me the chance to get one for free in exchange for an honest review, I jumped at the chance. It arrived well packaged in a cardboard box with all the filters etc. It's a small enough box (19x14x9cm) that you could easily keep everything in the box without wasting too much space. You'd probably not want to be carrying the carboard box around in the field with you, but then I imagine this is primarily bought for "studio" work. The unit itself is lighter than I'd feared (even having loaded it with the 4 AA batteries - not supplied), but seems well enough made. I can't imagine that adding the ring flash would make anyone feel their camera was suddenly too heavy to use. There is a small printed manual with 7 pages per language in it. There really isn't that much to say about the operation of the unit. The top unit has an LCD screen with some buttons that turn it on/off, adjust the intensity of the flash (from 50% to 150%), and can set the unit to either be a flash or a constant light source. The flash can be set to left/right or full (both) modes to vary the lighting a bit. As the flash ring rotates freely on the mounts, left/right could easily become top/bottom as required. I shoot with a Canon 650D (a crop sensor camera), and I have a selection of lenses for it. My "everyday" lens is an EF-S Tamron 18-400 zoom (72mm diameter). I was particularly interested to try the ring on this, because the lens is long enough that I think the lens itself gets in the way of the pop up flash. I have a UV filter on the end of all my lenses, more to protect from scratching them than anything else. The mount adapter screws into this, and the ring flash then clips on and off this mount adapter. All very easy. My idea that I could leave the mount adapter on all the time was scuppered by the fact that when I look through the lens, the corners of the image are obscured by the mount adapter. This is not surprising when you consider that the inner radius of both the adapters and the ring flash itself are just 65mm. When the ring flash is put on even more of the image is obscured (as the ring flash mounts just in front of the adapter). I had to zoom the lens to around 35mm to avoid this problem. My second lens is a Canon EF-S 10-18mm (67mm diameter), and that too had the same problem; I had to zoom in to 16mm or so before I got a complete picture with no darkening of the corners. With the kit Canon EF-S 18-135mm lens (also 67mm diameter), I have to zoom in to 50mm or so. The final lens I tested it with, the Canon EF 40mm pancake lens (52mm diameter) had no such problems. The ring flash didn't impinge upon the image at all; I suspect this is due to the APS-C size (crop) sensor in my camera doesn't use the outer regions of the image cast by the lens. People buying this to use with a full frame sensor camera may want to bear this in mind. It is quite likely that people buying this flash will be wanting to use it with macro photography; if macro tubes are used, I believe they will reduce this problem. Finally, I tried it on my wife's Panasonic Lumix FZ-200 bridge camera. That model of camera zooms from 25-600mm (35mm equivalent), and I needed to zoom to at least 38mm to get unobstructed corners. I haven't played with the diffusers/filters (white/blue/amber), but it's great to see them in the set. Both cameras detected and triggered the flash with no issues. It's a very simple system whereby the flash is triggered by an electrical pulse to the hot-shoe. As far as I can work out, no other communication takes place between camera and flash - certainly, you can't expect your camera menus to 'configure' the flash, or for your flash to do any clever helpful metering etc. Also, there is no mechanism for triggering other flashes; once you've added the power unit onto the hotshoe, you can't then trigger other flashes in more complex lighting setups (unless those flashes can be light triggered themselves). So, pro's and cons: Pro's: * It's certainly not expensive. * Solidly made. * Works with a wide range of cameras. * Supplied with adapters to allow most lenses to work. Con's: * May impinge upon the corners of the image. * Not as tightly integrated with your camera as some flashes might be. Both of those cons are relatively minor, I feel. Firstly, I suspect that ANY ring flash you buy may suffer from the same issue of impinging upon the corners of your image. If you've got a zoom lens you just need to zoom in a bit. If you've got a prime lens, then you don't have that freedom (but you can always crop). For those people using "full frame" lenses on crop sensor cameras, I suspect this won't ever be a problem. Secondly, the lack of integration with the camera probably doesn't affect that many people considering this unit. For most people the configuration on the flash unit is quite enough, and in this digital age you can take several different exposures with flash power at different strengths until you get the exposure you want. Given that the same light levels can be given both by using the ring as a flash and as a light, it may be easiest to set it to "light" and then take the shot; that way your camera can base its exposure etc on exactly the light it will be getting without having to guess. The only people that might be let down by this are people wanting to use the ring flash in combination with other flashes, due to the lack of any external flash trigger signal. For such people, either ensure your other flash units can be triggered by a light pulse, or buy a different (more expensive) ring flash. All in all, this seems like a bargain to me. Ideal for people experimenting with macro photography, and very versatile.

Great piece of kit. The ring flash fitted perfectly with my macro and telefoto lens using the adapters provided. The light output was consistent enough to use for macro and portrait shots. It is well made and compact. I have used it both for macro and portrait shoot and it performed very well. It is easy to use and doesn’t add much to the overall weight of the front end of the lens

The light sits infront of the lens and therefor unless your using a telephoto lens and it's zoomed in to like 70mm you are going to see this light in image/video. It's really not any use apart from being a hand help light.

So the ring flooded too much light backwards into the lense but I solved that with some black electrical tape. Secondly sometimes the flash is off sync with the camera. When it works it's beautiful.

I bought this one cause I started selling some products on my own website. As my products all small they require an extra light to doing photos, but as I am starting I have not enough founds to buy professional equipment so I looked for something witch acceptable price for beginners. I found this wan I can say this is surprisingly good. Obviously I believe the quality it's not the same like in 200£ equivalent of professional equipment, but its right enough.When it arrives it was packed in really well made box which look more expensive then really is. Product is made from decent material, got easy to use remote, it compatible with different DSLR cameras, and has four working mode. It's very handy if you want make your product photos look bright and good. It's totally worth to buy it if you are beginner or amateur with limited budged.

As I'm just experimenting with macro I wanted to try a ring flash but didn't want to spend too much. As an 'always on' light this is fine and allows you to shed some light on macro subjects, but I have been unable to get it to flash on my Sony A7Riii in synch with the camera - it fires but clearly not at the same time as the shutter opens. I note that the synch limit is 1/100th of a second, but even well below that it fires but not in sych with the camera so is useless as a flash. I have thought it might be user error, but so far have been unable to get it to fire in synch.

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