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Professor Kobre's Lightscoop, Warm Version Bounce Flash Device, Universal model, fits over the Pop-up Flash of most SLR Cameras (American Photo Editor's Choice 2008) |  | Brand: Professor Kobre
Category: Photography
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Rating:  8 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
MPN: U1W
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| Features:
| • | A bounce device for the pop-up flash on most 35mm DSLRs with interchangable lenses, slips over your camera's pop-up flash | | • | The Lightscoop is the inexpensive answer to natural-looking bounce flash and digital photography lighting |
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Product Description
Professor Kobre's Lightscoop, a bounce device for the pop-up flash on most 35mm DSLRs with interchangable lenses, slips over your camera's pop-up flash and allows you to bounce the flash like professionals bounce an expensive external flash. The Lightscoop is the inexpensive answer to natural-looking bounce flash and digital photography lighting. (Even professionals like it for casual shooting!) No more harsh shadows, bleached faces, red-eye, or cave effect from direct pop-up flash! Reviewers tell the story: "Bounce pop-up flash by snapping a Lightscoop over it, a little piece of plastic genius," Popular Photography, March 2008 "...just as if you had used one of those reflector umbrellas that the pros use," David Pogue, New York Times, "Circuits." -- "It slips into your camera's hot shoe, fits right over the pop up flash, and redirects the camera's flash to a ceiling or wall. That's bounce, baby, bounce... as essential as a lens cap," DingbatMag, the monthly review of Cool Tools "Your pop-up flash doesn't have to suck... I was stunned by the difference," Terry White's Tech Blog The Warming Lightscoop has a gold-tinted mirror. Professionals often use a filter over the flash to achieve a warm effect when shooting portraits. Since filtering a pop-up flash reduces its power, the gold-tinted mirror warms yet still properly exposes pictures. Compatible cameras Canon 7D, 10D, 20D, 30D, 40D, 50D, Rebel XTi OR 4
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 8
 Add versatility to your kit lens, cheaply May 4, 2010
Paul F (Michigan, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you bought an entry-level dSLR kit, you may have discovered that the kit lens (usually the 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6) doesn't shoot indoors very well without use of the flash. Canon and Nikon have inexpensive 50mm f/1.8 lenses that will shoot indoors without a flash, but if you want a really cheap workaround, the Lightscoop is it. Remember: because of the crop factor of entry-level dSLRs means that the 50mm is effectively 80mm, giving you a significant amount of "zoom", and as it is a prime lens, you'll have to zoom out with your feet.
Using the flash with the Lightscoop attached, you'll see an immediate improvement. Lightscoop eliminates flash blow-out of foreground objects that makes photographs ugly. It's easy to use, even if you don't bother to follow the manufacturer's advised camera settings.
You could buy an external flash that you can control in different ways, but there will be greater added expense and additional study!
Great light, and perfect for balanced indoor lighting July 23, 2009
Jerry Jackson Jr. (Cincinnati, OH United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Lightscoop is probably one of the best built-in flash light modifiers on the market. I always tried to avoid using built-in flash on my DSLR cameras until this device came around. Rather than having ugly flash photos with occasional red eye, the lightscoop bounces the flash above and behind you to create a more natural and professional-looking light. The "Warm Version" is designed to add warmth to your images, but there's a little trick that makes it PERFECT for use indoors with incandescent/tungsten lights ... set your camera's white balance to tungsten/incandescent.
If you're shooting indoors (particularly in the evening) with incandescent/tungsten lights (regular light bulbs) and use flash you'll end up with ugly "mixed lighting" where part of the photo looks yellow/orange and part looks white/blue. By using the Warm Version of the Lightscoop it makes your flash look more like a tungsten/incandescent light source ... so changing your camera's white balance to match the indoor lights gives you almost perfectly balanced light rather than ugly mixed lighting.
Also, per the instructions on the Lightscoop website, set your camera's built-in flash to +1 ... because the Lightscoop will make the flash look darker than normal (because it's bouncing the light off the ceiling or wall).
Bottom line: Buy the Lightscoop. It makes the built-in flash on your DSLR a useful light source rather than a waste of space.
 Did not like the results April 25, 2009
Michael J. Gorga (San Diego, CA USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I did not like the results of this shade at all. I sent it right back after 1 use. It was not warm and just made hot spots in the picture.
Great if you have a white ceiling October 15, 2008
Katrin
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Overall I am very pleased with this product. Before I was not able to take quality pictures of my children indoors, now I get great pictures that are not washed out and represent the cozy atmosphere of low light. I posted some before and after pictures. They are not great pictures, but they show the difference in lighting.
However, please read the manual (I almost through it away with the packaging) it only works with manual settings (the instructions are easy to follow: 1/200 and the lowest aperture your lens allows).
Also, this will only work if you have a "normal" height (not cathedral height) room with a white ceiling. With that said, if you want to take pictures in low light outside (Halloween is coming up) this tool will not work.
Lightscoop: lightweight, durable, inexpensive and it works. May 16, 2008
Charles Savage (Stanford, IN USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Lightscoop enhanced flash photos with my Nikon D80 have been excellent: attractive bounce flash lighting from the pop-up flash on the camera. I always thought it should be possible. Now I know it is.
The Lightscoop is easy to use and produces just the kind of lighting from the built-in flash that I had previously only dreamed about. The standard Lightscoop, evenly fills indoor flash photos with natural looking light direction and shadow. The warming Lightscoop does all this and more by enhancing flash portraits with warm, flattering skin tones. And, both versions give the camera a sleek, modern look that I rather like.
If you are a digital SLR user like me -- rarely use flash, and when you do are always unhappy with the washed-out results of the camera's pop-up flash -- you will love this product. Why buy an expensive external flash unit dedicated to your camera when Lightscoop is lightweight , durable, inexpensive and it works? Few camera accessories, I have found, deliver so much value for so little cost.
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