For a photog that first set of example images looks terrible. The first one looks like a 256 colour GIF and the other two have a JPEG quality value of about 3. The second set’s nice though.

I love hacks like this. Find some overpriced product, replicate on the cheap with a bit of ingenuity and time. Love it.

Posted at 2:34 pm on Feb 6th, 2009 by error404

not to be a nitpicker, but this isn’t a flash ring. It’s a macro flash ring. It won’t do anything if you are over a few feet away. This is designed to light objects evenly for macro photography when ordinarily your lens would obscure your flash because they are so close to it.

Posted at 2:40 pm on Feb 6th, 2009 by r

It may be for macro shots, but it’s still a flash ring.

Posted at 6:08 pm on Feb 6th, 2009 by Blind

An aweful lot of fibers point in some direction, not into front, and you can’t acess your lens very well anymore to focus, etc. Funky hack, but far from a userfriendly one.

Posted at 4:41 am on Feb 7th, 2009 by ragnar

Re. obscuring the lens -

It’s a macro flash and he’s using a prime lens. Why would he need to touch it? Just set the focus to 1:1 and focus by shifting the camera.

It’s a fun project on the cheap. Stop complaining!

Posted at 1:21 am on Feb 9th, 2009 by Mark

Продолжение будет?
Были бы признательны :-)

Posted at 4:55 am on May 3rd, 2009 by Морозов