@MrPlaystationboy Good observation! You are right if you use a long lens, or a large lens hood. However, with a 50mm or 85mm/f1.4 there is no problem. As for something like a 70-200mm, I probably wouldn't be using the pop-up, anyway. The lens in the video is a 24-120mm. If you are within a foot, or so, of the subject, you will see the shadow created by the lens hood. Further back than approx. one foot, and it is not an issue.
Sorry, but a more useful video would be to show how well it diffuses the light. Honestly, if whomever buys this, can't figure out how to mount it...........
@someguy6481 A mark of a true grass roots photographer. Seems like people and corporations are making things easier and easier and in the process taking a little bit of the creativity out of the process.
i bet the lens makes a huge shadow
MrPlaystationboy 5 months ago
@MrPlaystationboy Good observation! You are right if you use a long lens, or a large lens hood. However, with a 50mm or 85mm/f1.4 there is no problem. As for something like a 70-200mm, I probably wouldn't be using the pop-up, anyway. The lens in the video is a 24-120mm. If you are within a foot, or so, of the subject, you will see the shadow created by the lens hood. Further back than approx. one foot, and it is not an issue.
socalcamerapro 5 months ago
Even though it is plastic, the bracket keeps the flash on my Canon 60D from working. It's going back to the store.
CHProhaska 6 months ago
you can buy one of these from ebay for:
$4.53
item number: 120617664597
someguy6481 1 year ago
Sorry, but a more useful video would be to show how well it diffuses the light. Honestly, if whomever buys this, can't figure out how to mount it...........
1FROCH 2 years ago 5
wont that ilke screw up the flash chute
crazyinsanitie 2 years ago
what is a flash chute? Anyway, it doesn't screw up anything.
socalcamerapro 2 years ago
the part on the top of the camera where you connect the flash
crazyinsanitie 2 years ago
oh -- you mean the hot shoe. No, the Puffer won't have any effect on the hot shoe -- it is a plastic insert, and weighs much less than a flash unit.
socalcamerapro 2 years ago
thanks for the info because when i checked out your video you seem do my forcing it inside so im afraid that it might enlarge the hot shoe
crazyinsanitie 2 years ago
The hot shoe is metal and the Puffer is plastic -- no worries. I've been using it for over a year:-)
socalcamerapro 2 years ago
I made my own diffuser with scotch tape, works wonders.
someguy6481 3 years ago
...and years ago, I taped toilet paper over the flash.. many ways to skin a cat:-)
socalcamerapro 3 years ago
@someguy6481 A mark of a true grass roots photographer. Seems like people and corporations are making things easier and easier and in the process taking a little bit of the creativity out of the process.
supercooled 1 year ago
1. The purpose of the video was to demonstrate the Puffer. Speed was not the issue.
2. The whole point is that, unless it's a job, it's nice NOT to have to carry an external flash, all the time.
socalcamerapro 3 years ago
By the time you got the thing assembled and out on you could have pulled out the external flash
TarquinChurchwell 3 years ago
I'm alittle behind, it's 11.21.08, but I just bought one of the puffers today.
Micwell78 3 years ago