Sto-Fen Omni-Bounce, often called the 'Softie', is an almost perfect accessory for most flashguns. It weighs just 15g and simply clips onto the head of the flashgun. It softens the light in general use, eliminates red-eye and creates a diffused bare bulb effect.
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Author
eeyore Knight Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: February 2006 Location: Chilterns Posts: 8110
Review Date: Sat 21, October, 2006
Would you recommend it? Yes |
Total Spent: £15.00| Rating: 8
Strengths:
light , cheap , very useful
Weaknesses:
A great pice of kit and the perfect answer to harsh flash and red eye - I have just bought one of these and it has made a huge difference already.
Cracking bit of kit
------------------------------ "new improved eeyore , now with added tact..... for that whiter brighter finish"
Jon Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: March 2006 Location: Wirral Posts: 2057
Review Date: Mon 23, October, 2006
Would you recommend it? Yes |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 10
Strengths:
Cheap, provides gentle, even light. you can do the unthinkable, i.e. put your flash gun on the hot shoe and get good results. No need for flash bars or expensive aditional bits.
Weaknesses:
None really, it is not sophisticated , it is just an awful lot better than direct flash
For a small bit of plastic it is expensive, BUT in terms of providing satisfactory lighting to macro shots it is excellent. I originally used the bottom of a plastic milk bottle, this wasn't bad but the omnibounce fits an awful lot better and I use it with an old fashioned flash gun on a manual setting. It is a Vivitar 28O and I find at ISO 100 a shutter speed of anywhere down to 1//250 at f16 to f18 gives optimal exposures. Just point and shoot, a piece of cake. Couldn't recommend it more.
I have the version that fits the big Metz 45CL4 , if you buy this it also fits the Vivitar (I suspect the Canon 580 possibly too) all you do is unclip a plastic adaptor.
I am not kidding look it up on Google relate to your gun, use it on manual if it is not the latest sooper dooper integrated TTL thingammy whatsit and in no time at all you will get consistently reproducable good shots. Jon
------------------------------ We may "see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower" William Blake
