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Photo : Gary Fong Puffer Pop Up Flash DiffuserBrowse or Search and Buy Online our Best Sellers Shopping Sales of Photo and Gary Fong Puffer Pop Up Flash Diffuser. Rating:  - The foot broke after less than a week.I had high expectations for this product but, the foot was way too stiff to be used in the hotshoe of a camera. The type of plastic they use is highly brittle and it isn't flexible at all. By the design of the foot, they are supposed to flex inward to hold the diffuser on. This is absolutely poor design however, as I stated, because the plastic does not give at all. It snapped like cheap plastic as I inserted it into my hot shoe on my Nikon. The overall quality is poor. The diffuser section is extremely hard to remove from the black arms and adjust to the various heights using the built in holes. If they had used a better plastic for the black part of the product (the arms and foot) then I might be okay with it but, as of now I think it is supremely cheap. Judging by the material, it seems like it costs them less than a dollar to make these. They are so poorly made. I was highly disappointed. Compared to another product that I purchased, (it will remain unnamed) that reflects the built in flash to the ceiling using a mirror, the plastic used and overall build quality was MUCH HIGHER than the Gary Fong Puffer. Judging by the materials they used in this product, I doubt I will be buying any more Gary Fong products unless they make changes and announce them. A Puffer version 2.0 would be nice. They could learn something, from the previously unmentioned competitor in my review, about foot mounts and what to make them out of. Rating:  - Exactly what I was looking for.This is exactly what I was looking for. I was trying to find something that would diffuse the flash on my Nikon D40 camera and this item popped up on my amazon.com recommendation. Good recommendation! Rating:  - does the jobI've had a Rebel XT for several years and I've very seldom used the popup flash on it because coverage was so poor and uneven and it was harsh. Even with the flash compensation dialed down a little it was just ugly to use. I'd use available light and do the best I could with higher ISO and slower shutter speeds. (I'm not against popup flashes. My Minolta Maxxum 5 film SLR had one that was better that I used a lot more more) Anyway, recently a family friend showed me his puffer one evening and I shot some comparison shots, generally in a pretty dark room; portraits, and wider whole-room shots. The puffer really made a big improvement in the evenness of the flash coverage, removal of the harshness on nearer subjects (portrait subject's face), and generally getting a nicer color balance on auto. As a result I bought one a few days later. I've only used it a little so far but it seems to make my popup flash worth considering again. Cons: It is a bit kludgy in design, and I'd love something that would fold up smaller/easier for my small camera bag, but this *does* fit if I separate the parts. Also, as some mentioned, it can be tough getting it into the hotshoe or getting the diffuser part onto the black part. I find a little spit on the tips of the black bracket help with the latter. (Don't do that to get it into the hot shoe or you'll short it!) Overall it is inexpensive and seems to do a really nice job of making my rebel's popup flash usable. I presume if I'm careful with it it'll stay with me in my short set of priority gear that I usually carry. Rating:  - Decent, not greatJust got this and although it does diffuse, it doesn't do it all that noticeably. I realized quickly after trying to install it on my D50 that it isn't designed to go all the way in, presumably to avoid damaging the contacts on the shoe. It will do for the convenience of fitting into my bag when I don't want to mess with a full flash unit. As for full function - it's best used for reducing over-exposed highlights on your subject, but it won't completely disperse the light from the flash. Rating: - Love it!This works awesome. I'm taking a photography class and someone else in class had this item. I purchased it and I'm very happy with it. It works great. |