Monday, December 28, 2009

My Review of Gary Fong Lightsphere Collapsible - Clear


Great diffusion but still disappointing

By wordplanet from New York on 12/28/2009

 

3out of 5

Pros: Consistent Output

Cons: Hard to attach Falls off, Bulky

Best Uses: Portraits, Fill Flash

Describe Yourself: Pro Photographer

Pros: It definitely diffuses light well--used it for the first time and was happy with the results--both for crowd photos and close portraits--really diffused the light beautifully BUT the flash was still very bright in people's faces and I found I was mostly shooting flash toward the ceiling to avoid this. Other Cons: It's big and bulky, expensive, hard to attach to my Nikon SB-600, seemed very tight once on but still fell off twice when I flipped the direction of the flash, doesn't collapse partway--only fully up or fully down, takes up a lot of room in my camera bag, makes the flash seem huge and a bit unruly, hard to remove from the flash. :) A dog thought it was a toy and almost bit it while I held my camera at waist height!

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My Review of Hoodman RAW 8 GB, 300x High Speed UDMA Compact Flash Memory Card, Supports up to 45MB per-second Transfers

Originally submitted at Adorama

Hoodman RAW 8 GB, 300x High Speed UDMA Compact Flash Memory Card, Supports up to 45MB per-second Transfers


Fast and reliable. Worth the extra cost

By wordplanet from New York on 12/28/2009

 

5out of 5

Pros: Fast, Reliable, Lightweight, Convenient Interface

Best Uses: Digital Photography, Digital Capture

Describe Yourself: Pro Photographer

Having had more than one CF card fail on me from two of the primary manufacturers, I decided to go for this one as I was moving up to an 8GB card and had read about its reliability. I've shot about 4,000-5,000 photos with it since August, never a problem. Super fast shooting to camera even shooting RAW on continuous setting for a sports shoot--not my usual subject. Super fast upload via my (Lexar) firewire card reader both to my iMac and to my MacBook Pro. 8 GB uploaded faster than 2GB from my other cards. Definitely recommend it.

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