DIY RingFlash

[jandben]

superrr



[VicentiuB]

you save 4$ shiped from Ebay ...

[sanderbesems]

@VicentiuB How do I fid that for 4$? I want ;)

[airloo]

you said 2A driver?? how?? i saw the video clip there is no circuit...if 100 leds with 3 or 4 AA batteries what voltage of restorers in it? is that really work so far or am i wrong?

[TheBrunch]

1. I saw the video.

2. I went to Ebay.

3. I bought 400 LEDs.

4. Im making the holes on my CD case.

All in 4 minutes.

[LongshanksSid]

CD cases are awesome for all sorts of things, I'm making a beauty dish at the moment using a CD case like the one your using. think I will make this my next project. Thanks man :o)

[ILikeToMong]

Thanks for uploading this, I'm gonna make one.

[Roh1290]

Sir how about using 5 volts to that ring flash light is there any modification is there any resistor or capacitor to be added ?

[Roh1290]

sir how did u connect all 65 led whether in series or parallel and how is this possible to light all 65 led by using just 4.5volts? plz help me sir..........

[k2v1N325]

@Roh1290 He's driving all the LED's in parallel, however the batteries can't output enough current to damage the LED's and that also means that the LED's are not being driven to rated max voltage. If he had connected the LED's to a power supply capable of more than 2A he's LED's would have burnt.

[airloo]

hi 187poepvlieg,

i really dont understand how do you do that for 100 led light with 3aa battery without any resistor? can i see inside what is look like? pls email me or pm me..

thank

airloo

[k2v1N325]

@airloo You can't 3 AA batteries in series can't output the 2A necessary to drive the 100 LED's in parallel, so the effective voltage when the circuit is on is much lower than 3.6V.

[avallonmist]

That's clever. I like that music too.

b/b)O(

[DollFacePookie]

this is actually genious, i'm definately going to try this as soon as i can

thanks a lot for making this vidio! :D

[knbcustoms]

you should have used a 9v it would have lasted alot longer and would have been real bright

[undrgrnd4dub]

3 AA batteries = 4.5volts and most 5mm LEDs will lose life span with that much power because they were not built for that.

[CELTICMED]

what we call this light when u go to the shop ?

[PhotoJoe2001]

Why are you calling this a "flash". Its Not. its a Light. 2 Very different things.

you'll never achieve the power of a traditional flash with this gizmo.  don't get me wrong, i love that you used a cd-spindle in a creative way, and on a DSLR that takes Video, this could be very handy. but please stop calling it a "flash"

[gregpphoto]

@PhotoJoe2001 Please stop being such a technical boob.

[finegoldtube]

You did not explain exactly how the LEDs were connected to the light switch.

[RDemirkan21]

Sweet Simcity music.

[x2j1]

wow.



[FakeFriendship]

its simple, its easy to build, you a genius i never thought about using a cd case for that :D

[redepoch76]

you should have some resistors in there... you could also use a potentiometer to lower the voltage from the batteries... thus, dimming the LEDs... cool project.

[localbkk]

Soldering all the LEDs in parallel is a really bad idea. LEDs are not like normal lightbulbs.

[banearu]

Cool

[nieikjeroen]

hello, i'm also into macro photography and i would like to build your flash. I will make 2 circuits. one for the outer ring of LED's and one for the inner one. This way I can adjust the brightness of the light. I'm also gonna add two flexibele arms on wich I will put 6 LED' s each so I will have light for the front but also from the left and from the right. These arms will have 2 switches and 4 batteries (1 switch and 2 batteries per arm).

[multivisionstudios]

we'll be waiting for your video of your project. :)

[lolsalad100]

hey. i want to make one. but i can't seem to light up all the LEDs at once. i cn only light up 3 at a time. any tips?

[xboxfeliks]

8 euros and how many hours did it take you to solder 130 led leads together? lol

[kiashadowwave]

@xboxfeliks takes about half an hour if youve soldered before

[Morrgore]

Genius, I'm going to make one right now!

[GermaeAnne]

wow.. great.. but one question.. how effective is it? really.. like some other people here, I'd really love to see some photos/videos you took using this ring light..

[Akoplewitz]

PLEAS upload some pics, I really wanna build one but I wanna see how do the pics look when using it.

[rundmc100100]

PLEASE ANSWER

how did you do it?????? i wanna build one, and all the other ones are using resistors and what not

[localbkk]

@rundmc100100 If you want it to last, you will need the resistors. LEDs are NOT light-bulbs. This set-up without resistors will not last long. One LED (the one with the lowest operating voltage) will get all the current and burn. Then the next lowest voltage LED will burn, etc. etc.

[MrHeavySilence5]

@localbkk

Thanks for the advice

[macuser7080]

Awesome job! You should defiantly look into the pin out of ur Canons hot shoe and see if u can use that as a switch.

[KALSoundProductions]

No example photos???  not sure how nice it is until those are shown :( good work though.

[hooftcommandantstijn]

IRON MAN!!!!!!!!!!!

[renatinmn]

good idea

[tomx63]

resistors used?

[tehshizoid]

erg mmoi idee :D Heb het net zelf eens gebouwt en werkt echt goed. Gaat zeker eens mee op het een of andere event als "ring light" voor videos :D

Heb gewoon wat zwart isoleertape noch om het heele geplakt. Zo is die dan heelemaal zwart en ziet er meer "pro" uit :D Ach en je verliest geen licht naar buiten en het witte van de tape reflecteerd een beetje naar binne :D

[loveSc7]

I love to make things like this! And this concept is actually pretty smart. Good idea man!

[gabro8222]

sorry, do you use any resistance?

[taurus1269]

You should patent your idea. It could have alot of uses.

[garethop]

have you had any issues of burnouts?

what power led's did are you using for this?

how many hours does you 3 battery setup run before needing new batteries?

do you not have any transistors or step up converts to get this working without problems?

Did you have any issues witht he led's melting the cd case?

I'm trying to get SOMETHING setup in time for halloween weekend (in 2 days), and I like what you've done.

[ivhual]

@garethop LEDs work at low temperatures, they will not burn the CD case.

[betadynamics]

not a flash. ..

[papercut1987]

hahaha, the best design i have ever see. Beatiful!!

[PonyHaven]

Clever use of the CD case :) . Great work.

I made one with 36 Leds in it. The effect on the camera was amazing. It allowed my Fuji Finepix S5700 camera to take videos and pictures in darkened rooms.

These little gadgets are really worth the effort of making at home :) .

[simonwedege]

Do you have some photos to show, where you actually used it?

[Crpetersena]

Not bad, Cd spindle case... but how did you wire all of the LED's together? Lot of soldering? Or did you come up with some other neat trick. Jolly Good mate, that's using the old noodle.. Nikon R1C1 is quite a piece of equipment but cost $800+ USD. Drooled over that for a few seconds and realized that sort of cash is just not in the budget. Did find a extremely cheaply made China ring from Cowboy studio (VL-48) $50 USD. Half the reviews say its trash half the review say it works fine..

[stephane1234567]

Excellent video.

Isn't it hard too hard to get an overexposed picture? I guess you can tweak the settings of the camera also to compensate the overexposure.

[TheVideosfactory]

damnnn genius dude but how look ready on boar ur cam?

[sony4401]

awesome 

[blainesface]

should have put some pics you took with it.

[fayyazb]

AWESOME IDEA!

UPDATE with the switch and the battery holder too.

[halifaxskater]

very creative, well done mate!

[elscivic]

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Marek1175]

clever

[nugent923]

Excellent idea, but what about your autofocus does it still work ?

[HelloChello33]

what kind of dslr camera did you attach this to? :o

do you have any example pictures???

[koukouph]

your video is very useful! congrats! you made my life easier! thank you

[satansludge]

Thats awsume, I for one have always had to make the best out of what I have and this shows just how smart you are. I'm very impressed the only thing needed is some sample shots then this video would be brillant !

[arboles04]

Genial, tío. Gran trabajo. Enhorabuena.

[FaLLeNaNg3L82]

great idea! great work!

[jeanpoint22]

hey Iron man called he said he needed  his chest piece back...? Wonder whats that about

[photoboy666]

You should call it a what it is, a ring light, not a ring flash.

[finn3rs1993]

nice but not a ring 'flash'

[MWoody92]

great job :-)

[Dtapia63]

Thumbs up for innovation...

[telosfd]

A great photo camera like Canon its not according with that constraction!!! Otherwise its a clever built!!!

[kalteis77]

a friend of mine built one like that for himself, he shoots on a canon eos 1d mark-iii wich is "great" enough lol.

why do people always think of what is NOT possible instead of whats possible..

[ichirootaniguchi]

lol. canon is shit

go on dxomark (.) com then look at the camera rankings.

the D300/D300s outrank the canon 1Dmk3/1Dmk4 which are supposed to be 2 of canon's best cameras.

the D3/D3s/D3X/D700 all outrank the 1DS mk3. and 5D mk2. the 7D fails the most because it's canon's biggest piece of shit....

[MrBooojangles]

Would it work in complete darkness, if not how many extra batteries would be needed?

[eggbertsmith]

Isnt this a "ring light"?

[MrTanker10a]

What is exactly the purpose of a ringflash. I would love to see some shots taken with a ringflash. In fact, I have never heard of one until now...

[creepycookie]

@MrTanker10a its supposed to eliminate shadows (or atleast make them not visible for the lense

used for potraits and macros

[Fabuze]

This is excellent..but doesn't it get in the way of your light meter...???

[bardick]

Excellent video. So good I shot down the electronics shop and built my own. I made a few adaptations (a collar with more LEDs shining inwards at 45 degrees and glued in a 67mm adapter ring for my 100mm f2.8L). I saved £400 on a ring flash and couldn't have done it without your video dude! The guy in the shop said it'd never work without a resistor and that the batteries'd last 2-3minutes if wired in parallel - rubbish! It works for 1.5hrs with 3xAA on inner ring and 3xAA on outer ring. Cheers!

[angziang]

oh my god this is amazing!!

please show me some fotos taken using this ringflash :D

[LanmiX84]

looking nice but it would be great if u show some samples . . .

[2spoonsmaloy]

amazing idea, the cost of a ring flash far exceeds the cost of making this....great!

[DeliciousCassiopeia]

That was great!

[fossilgirl8]

That a really clever idea -- do you have any examples of photos that you took using the ring light? Nice job with being creative and keeping the costs down.

[001FJ]

Very cool and thanks for sharing. But does it work? Can you show before and after images? And how far does the light illuminate?

[szupertinka]

Very ugly. Poor spindle case...

[Aristotle76]

I agree with rezrocknj:

This is a ring light. Not a flash. Cool nonetheless. :)

[thatgoesinthere]

Can we see what you've taken with it?

[staruponurgrave]

very nice how did u attach the lcd lights? and any chance u can show some photos u took with it?

[rezrocknj]

I didn't see any flash... this looks more like a ring light not a ring flash.. How come I did see the shutter triger the ringflash? This is cool if a photographer wants to use it with a camera and not have a flash. More natural light and catch this ring light in the eyes, but this is not a flash or a ringflash from what I seen here. It's cool I might make one, but Its not a ringflash call it a ringlihgt.

[ramtrix]

Nice tutorial and i made my own lights for my camcorder and still camera and I didn't spend more than $60. They rely go over $500 dollars for my camcorder.

Thanks for showing.

[youwillbeflaggedfag]

dude, can you post how you did yours? That would be cool to see too!

[MacNifty]

genius

[beyree]

Wow..v neat idea. I bet this will be real good for macro photography!

[naignik]

i wanna see the pictures using your homemade ringflash?

[siliconsurf]

@naignik that would be fucking nice...if it actually works...

[aeroub]

Who the hell would want to lol

[msrhe]

Cool!

*Thumbs up*

[kurumako]

Off topic, but what's the song?

[m1cgames]

It's from the Official Soundtrack of:  March of the Penguins

[gilbot3030]

yes its not a ring flash but it is a ring light. give him a bit more credit guys. you have to admit it was crunstructed very neatly and i have to admit, i probably wouldnt of thought about using a cd spindal case. but this would probably be more effective for video not photography. but that is my opinion until i see actual photos taken with this. i still gave 5 stars! good job!

[MXPXHolland]

lekker man

[camadai]

wherewver if is aring light i think is a very good idea if you set up it with your flash speed lite

[davidimm]

still hasn't changed the title. IT"S NOT A RING FLASH!!!

[shadowblack1987]

Ringlight not ringflash...

[skullo666freak]

You shoulda taken a couple of pictures and shown them to us, i'd like to see how it affects pictures. :)

beautiful job however, im going to try this myself soon and this is a LOT of help. thank you very much.

[ernerstov87]

are the leds on series or paralel?

[camb00]

paralel

[bestamerica]

3 batteries are brighter LED,,,

what about 4 batteries

[draviliant]

What are the ratings on your LEDs? mcd, typical mA, typical voltage?

I'm inspired by your build and looking to build one of my own!

Thanks!

[draviliant]

Also, how did you cut the plastic without cracking it?

[skullo666freak]

she/he burned them through. heated the plastic and pushed the bulbs through.

[jcparedesc]

where did you get the ring circuit to connect all the LED's together?

[simonegablan]

but what the hell does it look like on video ????

[21Kobe12]

Sample pics, would be great.

[iamthearmul]

The reason why the leds did not fry was the amount of inner resistance of those AA cells. You should have calculated proper current limit resistors for led groups. But it seems to work so...

[tkandme3]

Canon cameras suck. Go get a Nikon.

[Marquant]

You bore me.

[sasktank]

tkandme3-----nikon ?---what the fuck is nikon?---whatever it is - because you like it , it must suck

[skater8au]

your retarded if you dont know what nikon is.

[Lpcomedian]

you are an idiot.

i would take any canon over a nikon.

nothing would beat a Canon EOS 5D MarkII

over any Nikon camera.

i would take a EOS rebel XSi over a D90

[toad2039]

well an xsi hmm not over a d90 but i would take a 5d mark 1 over a d90 any day (30d owner)

[skullo666freak]

i don't agree on "you're on idiot" but I do agree with "i'd take any Canon over Nikon". Although Nikon has some great features to it, I personally don't think it can at all compete with Canon.

Canon Pride <3

:)

[Torein]

Sigh...It's the photography that takes the picture. Camera really doesn't matter all that much.

[skullo666freak]

well.. it's.. the person... who takes the picture. photography is what others make it. but when it comes to camtech, Canon wins :]

[v8power101]

cheap baaastard

[VanHoolPilot]

Where's the FLASH in your RINGFLASH? Oops!

[viniciuspedrozo]

Insane! I can buy a ring camp lamp of 5 dollars.

[Eagle971]

Nice. I used a heat treated foam ring placed in the inner circle to hold snug over my lens.

[Adriano1ith]

this look like the heart of ironman :D

[gkolaszczynski]

If you want enjoy it longer, every LED or every series connected LED set should have resistor in series to limit a current.

[bennyboyenator]

Hee, Mooi, goed gedaan!

Heb je alle leds parallel op de batterijen gezet of in serie?

[blp0]

Great use of music, what song is that?  Do you have any examples of the light with more batteries?

[187poepvlieg]

The song is from the March of the Penguins Soundtrack.

I don't have samples, sorry.

[idaveuk]

like it useing ya brains smart guy love to see some pics ie macro etc

[neobiker]

resultado?

ejemplos?

[9inchnail]

Love the concept but can't find cheap LEDs in Germany. 100 LEDs will cost you 25 bucks or more easy, that's a real pain in the a** :-(

[187poepvlieg]

Try to search on eBay. I got them from eBay USA

[mikiemoo]

Have you got any examples of images taken with the ring light?

[evileyez504]

can u make me one and selll it on ebay??lol