Polaroid Macro LED Ring Flash & Light For The Nikon D5300, D5000, D3000, D3200, D5100, D5200, D3100, D7000, D7100, D4, D800, D800E, D600, D610, D40, D40x, D50, D60, D70, D80, D90, D100, D200, D300, D3, D3S, D700, Digital SLR Cameras (Will Fit 52,55,58,62,67,72,77mm Lenses)

I bought this as a low price solution for photographing painted miniatures. I can now set up lights around the mini and use this light for the front of the item. It is a perfect solution. I can use it on multiple cameras with the size rings provided. The light has several settings for flash, right side, left side, or all on light. In addition, you can adjust the brightness of the light. I am extremely pleased with this purchase.

I really wanted to enjoy this product. The product looks awesome, feels like it will stay together if you don't throw it around.Let me break this down into each section of what I don't like. The top receiver gives off a humming noise when the light is constantly on. It takes 4 AA batteries (not included) which last about 2 hours. The slide door you open to put the batteries in doesn't line up correctly so it takes some time close it.The light itself is 2 parts, the light and the adapter. The adapter is impossible to put on when connected to the light because you have turn it at least 5 rotations. What ends up happening if you keep the adapter connected to the light is it rips off the top receiver. My biggest grip is when the light is fully hooked up and connected you can't just leave it assembled. There is no way to put a lens cover on. So what you're forced to do is remove the light, remove adapter then put the lens cover on. So each time you want to use/put away the camera you have to follow this process.The quality of the pictures I really wasn't impressed with. The light is bright (even on the lowest) settings. The pictures I took felt no better then if I had just my on board flash. I am sure I could put something on the camera to diffuse the lightning, but wasn't that the point of getting this? To get a professional light that would remove shadows while giving off soft light?The only application I see with this light is during night video shooting with an external boom mic.

I've found that the bane of doing close-up photography in low light is shadows from the flash. Worse, often times, even if using a light meter and auto-sensors, one gets a washed-out subject. Between the shadows from the offset of the flash and the washing out, the issues with close-up photography are hard to otherwise overcome without a relatively elaborate slave flash set-up (which I do have, by the way).For down-and-dirty, fast, relatively close up photography (6"-6') without a lot of offset flash units or creative holding of flash units to kill shadows, this thing really does a very nice job. It's bright enough to be used as a movie video light and it absolutely and completely eliminates shadowing. If you're trying to get one of those old indoor, spot-light, Super-8 effects off of this, you'll be disappointed. With the light originating from around the lens itself, there's no place for a shadow to show.And that's the whole point of this thing - get rid of shadow.I haven't tried it in flash mode, though. My few hundred pictures so far have all been done with the light on at various levels of illumination and taking my light readings from that. The LED's seem to produce a good color balance (the colors in the pictures look like what I see), which even in otherwise low light look good.But again, this is for close-up work. It's not a huge distance strobe or spotlight. Beyond about six feet, there is quite a bit of light loss. Keep in mind that the light has variable illumination levels, so the further out (or closer) it is, one can compensate for the illumination and color balance up to a point, but you still have a more flexible depth of illumination than a fixed brightness light.Using this for indoor HD movies worked great.I did not read the instructions, and found the controls to be relatively intuitive. The only caveat to that is it's sort of like a computer to turn on and turn off. The power button needs to be held down for about three seconds both to turn on and off. I presume this is to avoid having it accidentally turned on and eating the batteries (4 AA cells, not included). The rest is pretty easy to figure out. It also has modes for altering which side (or direction if you rotate it around the ring, which it does easily) most of the light comes from for some of the more "artsy" shots, available in both the flash and the flashlight modes.If you do a lot of close-up work and need simple illumination, this will do the trick. The unit comes with six or so different ring sizes (including the stock 52 mm size of the Nikon D5200 & D5300), so it will probably fit most lenses. As long as you don't expect it to illuminate the Sistine Chapel, and want to stay within about six feet or so of the subject, this will provide even, shadowless light for true-color, non-flash photography with subjects like skittish pets, bugs, and flash-phobic individuals. It WILL work further away than 6 feet, of course, but the colors will start to be altered by the lower levels of illumination and one can then tell that the lights were low.Once I use it with flash, I'll edit this review to say how well that works under what circumstances.

This works largely as you'd expect - it's 32 reasonably bright LEDs, that aren't particularly close to any obvious temperature (I think they're supposed to be 5500K, but they're a few hundred off in my case). It's not very bright compared to an actual flash, and because there's no shielding on the inside of the ring, you do get a haze effect, especially if you shoot at high ISO or in dirty air. That's only been problematic so far, though, at distances of several feet or more.If you use this for macro, it's okay. It's not really bright enough to let you go down to really low apertures - I wouldn't try beyond f/16 in anything except long, tripod-mounted exposures. It also doesn't do a good job illuminating things that are only a few centimetres from your lens (since the ring itself sticks out a few centimetres as it is).I also found that the light it produces is very, very flat. I guess that shouldn't be surprising given it is a ring, and it's presumably why it has modes for flashing from only one side or the other, but I'll admit I haven't tried those yet. Largely because getting it to work as a flash, rather than an always-on light, has been a bit problematic on my D3200 (though I expect once I do figure out the intricacies of that, it'll just become a matter of proper procedure). When I compare it to simply holding a 1000 lumens flashlight next to the lens, the flashlight produces so much better results, aesthetically.Lastly, the manual is a bit brief... so much so that there are buttons on the hot shoe box that aren't explained, and don't have any apparent purpose. Bit weird.

The light seemed to work well but it drains the batteries overnight (I checked to see if I left it on and I did not)

I rigged this on my camera as soon as it arrived. It works quite well for the price I paid. It’s great for budget conscious macro photographers when starting out.

Sus resultados para fotografía macro son estupendos, la única pega es que no trae filtros para atenuar la luz y hay que retocar digitalmente

Buen equipo, el unico problema es que consume muy rápido las baterias, ojala en adecuaciones pudieran adaptar un eliminador de corriente

Luce fredda perfetta. Illumina a senza dare fastidio al volto di animali e bambini ho sempre comprato solo Nikon. Ma questo è ottimo prodotto che costa 1/3 rispetto ai prodotti Nikon. Merita sicuramente

Flash répondant parfaitement à ma pratique de la macro, tout à fait compatible iTTL Nikon, parfait. Petite réserve sur sa longévité: le plasique me semble léger.