Frustated with the internal direct flash and no money to buy an external flash, so want to find some DIY to diffuse the flash.

Found some DIY at
http://www.instructables.com/id/EFWF47HEFPEV2Z6BX8/

I spend RM7.40 for the Dunhill (who want free ciggies? lol), try it and it works. Even though the quality can't be compare to ext flash but at least this can help poor ppl like me in certain situation. So want to share it here, sharing is caring


Setup : Take out all the ciggies, smoke all the ciggies if u can, lol. Take out the gold paper as well, in that website, he using the gold paper but i found the result is better without it.
Cut the bottom of the box to open it. And setup as below, done..





Yah i know it is ugly, maybe u can wrap the dam thing with colorful paper and label it as Nikkor SB-900






I try to test it to take a photo at my living room with low light condition, without flash, the photo gonna be very very dark..

So i test it with both direct flash and the flash with the Dunhill diffuser and manually control the flash so both photo brightness are almost identical.

The result?


Taken with direct flash.
As u can see, there are some extreme reflection on the tin and smooth surface of the plastic. And notice the wall as well, got those reflection caused by the tin.




Now with the Dunhill diffuser.
As u can see, the light is properly diffused, no more reflection on the wall and not so extreme reflection on the surface of the tin and plastic bottle. But the auto white balance gonna run off.



After PP the previous photo by adjusting the white balance, the photo cames out nice, at least for me



thanks wkcheang for technical assistance

This post has been edited by Gadget_Freak: Mar 22 2007, 08:45 AM

ermm..maybe u can use other box..lol..or u wrap it lor..cheat ppl said it is a special device..lol

hehe..make it more marketable..i also want to wrap it so won't be so ugly in the public.lol

nvm la..u got the SB-400 oledi

Erm..do u read my 1st post? The lighting condition is very bad, and indeed i need to use flash to get that brightness, else the whole photo will be darken