{"id":1441,"date":"2010-08-05T11:53:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T11:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2010-08-05T11:53:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T11:53:15","slug":"flash-in-a-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"Flash In A Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOver a year ago, 10th July 2009 to be exact, I built my own ring flash light modifier! One can either stick a lens of 77mm diameter through the hole, or turn the modifier upside-down to become a directional light, looking very much like a beauty dish.<\/p>\n


\nThis is how it looks, straight on, through the ring.<\/p>\n


\nEnche Ted<\/a> the lighting guru with the directional light.<\/p>\n


\nMuzzammil against the wall.<\/p>\n


\nMuzzammil not against the wall. I have to say I really like the directional light mode!<\/p>\n


\nWaifon through the ring.<\/p>\n


\nsmashpOp<\/a> with a light from the side.<\/p>\n


\nIsz, camera salesman, through the ring…<\/p>\n


\n…and Rames<\/a> with that beauty dish-like effect.<\/p>\n


\nHow about some macro?<\/p>\n


\nThis was a far more difficult shot (thanks Kevin Wong for taking this!) Two flashes with wide-panel diffusers pulled out, and one flash with ring flash light modifier from above.<\/p>\n


\nMy inspiration to build this came from another lighting modifier master, Templar<\/a>! His far more refined version is on the right. Trust an engineer to make precision look easy!<\/p>\n


\nThere was, also, this O-Flash RF175 light modifier – it was significantly heavier, but gives one stop better light transmission. Did I mention that the light modifier sucks power and decreases range significantly?<\/p>\n

The bottom left picture with with the O-Flash; the bottom right, with my version, which had a warm cast.<\/p>\n


\nVersion 2, built on the 1st of August 2009, transforms and holds a Sony HVL-F58AM flash. However I’d rather lug around the Version 1 because the collapsed Version 2 doesn’t fit in much smaller bags.<\/p>\n

Someday when I am freer, I shall revise this into an even smaller design, I hope. It would be too easy to make a collapsible beauty dish – but ring flash?<\/p>\n


\nLeft is Version 2 next to a Metz Mecablitz 15 MS-1 Digital. Powered by 2 AAA batteries, that ring flash amazingly packs a punch – it can even be triggered by your camera’s pop-up flash! Now, if only it would fit lenses having a filter thread size bigger than 72mm… (though, you’d want to stick a medium telephoto through this, so you’d probably zoom your lens through it.)<\/p>\n

More pictures from the same setup: (and some are the same but in lower resolution…)
\nLucky 8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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