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Lumiquest Soft Screen, a Diffusion Sheet for On-Camera Pop-up Flashes. | 
 enlarge | Brand: LumiQuest
Category: Photography
Buy New: $9.99
New (6) from $9.99
Rating:  47 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
MPN: 897370
Model: Lumiquest Pop Up Soft Screen
UPC: 744579052007
EAN: 0744579052007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Front Panel is held in place by fitting around cameras nameplate | | • | Dimensions: Folds flat to approximately 4x4-inches |
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Product Description
Diffuse your pop up flash and prevent red eye. Quick and convenient to put on & take off. This is the answer to most on camera flash problems. Light loss is about 2/3 of a stop
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| Customer Reviews: Read 42 more reviews...
Good Solution For Softer Flash - Recommended December 11, 2008
CFH (Blue Ridge Summit, PA USA)
The "Lumiquest Soft Screen" is a handy gadget that fits over your camer's built in flash to diffuse the flash. This produces pictures that are more evenly lit and avoids the stark results built in flashes often produce.
We take product pictures for our small business using a Pentax K100D and a few painter's lights which, alone, can produce shadows and uneven lighting. The "Soft Screen" allows us to use the camera's built in flash to get nice even lighting over the whole picture. We really don't have room for a large softbox or more expensive lighting, so this option was a good and fairly inexpensive choice.
It works well for our needs! Recommended!
 Mixed Results November 17, 2008
Mr. T. H. Ward (San Antonio, TX)
1) The tab is too big to get in my camera's hot shoe without folding and stuffing it in, or cutting it.
2) Apparently my camera (Cannon powershot pro) disables the built-in flash when something's in the hot shoe - using a pressure switch, so inserting this all the way disables my camera's flash
3) Results are mixed. I didn't get underexposures, but some times didn't seem like it did much diffusing.
Your mileage may vary, but for $10 it might be worth a try.
Good to have on hand. October 27, 2008
J. Ferguson (United States)
Really handy, not a good as a real flash with a diffuser but this is in my bag all the time just in case. Worth the money.
 Trash September 9, 2008
Laura (Indianapolis, IN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a terrible piece of equipment! First, it you have to VELCRO it to your camera, putting adhesive goo on your hotshoe. If you try tilting your camera, it falls off because of the poor fit. It is just a pain to use- make one yourself and save some grief and money.
Product is cheap... glad the price is too. September 5, 2008
Serenityone (Wisconsin, USA)
I had high hopes for this item, too bad it didn't live up to them. I got it for my Canon Rebel XT so that a student of mine could try it - but the camera won't even fire the pop-up flash when the sheet is attached to the hot shoe(this is not an issue with that camera and other products), and the little tab that is supposed to attach to the hot shoe doesn't fit quite right - it's too big, and I assume was pushing down on the sensors. After reading reviews decided to trim it to make it fit better and then the flash would fire, but the little plastic tab wouldn't stay snugly in the hot shoe anymore unless I held it there. I also tried it on my 40D and had the very same problem.
Also, I could tell right away when I put it on both cameras that the sheet does not hold itself far enough away from the flash, so even if I could get it to work right, I doubt it would diffuse much.
Maybe this is designed for other types of cameras, but it would be nice to have that info in the item description.
In my case, I'm glad it was only a couple dollars to try this out, I won't be recommending it anytime soon.
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