Comments on: Fiber optic flash ring

By: Морозов

Морозов — Sun, 03 May 2009 11:55:43 +0000

Продолжение будет?
Были бы признательны :-)

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:21:44 +0000

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!

By: ragnar

ragnar — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:41:01 +0000

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.

By: Blind

Blind — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:08:46 +0000

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

By: r

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:40:55 +0000

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.

By: error404

error404 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:34:46 +0000

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.