Digital MACRO Ring Light Flash for Nikon Canon Pentax

Digital MACRO Ring Light Flash for Nikon Canon Pentax

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This ring flash is wonderful. First thing, it really is a ring flash, not a ring light. That means vastly more light, albeit in a similarly shorter period. Even at 1/250 and f/16, I get a great close-up exposure.

For over a year, I used a Canon S1 IS (Image Stabilization) digital camera. My new Nikon D80 camera is wonderful but Nikon locates their image stabilization not in the camera, but in their VR (Vibration Reduction) lenses. I need extra depth of field so I have to use higher-numbered (smaller-diameter iris) f-stops. That means long exposures. Handheld photos have too much shake with the long exposures. Since I haven't saved enough pennies (and it takes lots and lots of them) to buy a VR lens, my close-up photos are fuzzy unless I put them on a tripod. Tripod is synonymous with heavy, bulky, clunky, cumbersome, and loathed.

More light is a solution but my D80's integral flash casts unwanted deep shadows. The Digital MACRO Ring Light Flash doesn't cast those shadows and gives me so much light I can take 1/250th of a second exposures at f/16. That means I can handhold my camera in my shaky paws and take spontaneous sharp close-up photos.

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