Cameta Cobra Macro Ring Light Flash - For Canon, Nikon, Olympus & Pentax Digital & Film SLR Cameras

by Cameta

Product Details

• Item Weight: 13 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000NL7EFU
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 18, 2007

Product Description

The Cameta Cobra Macroflash Automatic Ring Light is a convenient and creative lighting solution for medical, dental, flower, insect, jewelry, and other small subject close-up photography where built-in and conventional flash units are difficult or impossible to use at such short working distances. Utilizing a circular electronic flash tube design that encompasses your lens provides shadow-free, even illumination on your subject. An added benefit of employing electronic flash technology rather than a continuous light source is that it will freeze action, so that a lively butterfly or flower waving in the breeze can be photographed as if they were posing for your picture. Unlike other ring lights that require a bulky and heavy power supply to be mounted to your camera's hot shoe, the Macroflash is self-contained and economically and efficiently powered by only two AA-size Alkaline, NiCad or NiMH rechargeable batteries. You don't even have to remember to turn the flash off as it incorporates "Auto-Off" circuitry to prolong battery life. This versatile Ring Light Flash can mount to almost any Digital or Film SLR lens using the supplied 52mm, 55mm, and 58mm adapter rings — or if necessary, with other optionally available adapter rings. Optimized to prevent vignetting with most lenses having a filter size of 58mm or smaller, these optional Series 7 adapter rings are available in sizes from 43mm through 77mm. A coiled PC cord and Hotshoe-to-PC adapter are also supplied enabling the Macroflash to be used with almost any Digital or Film SLR Camera with a standard hotshoe or PC socket. [Note: Minolta Maxxum/Sony Alpha Cameras have a proprietary hot shoe that requires a separately available SC-5 shoe adapter that converts it to a Standard Hot Shoe plus a PC connection.]

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best for the price, July 7, 2010

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TW (las vegas) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cameta Cobra Macro Ring Light Flash - For Canon, Nikon, Olympus & Pentax Digital & Film SLR Cameras (Electronics)

I don't think you'll even come close to another decent ring flash in this price range, after this the costs just soar!! yes it does take a lot of practice to use {like setting your stops WAY down} but for casual photography this is the ring flash you want, why pay more? it works fine.

12 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ring flash, August 11, 2009

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Wilbank "Psyc Prof" (New Mexico) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cameta Cobra Macro Ring Light Flash - For Canon, Nikon, Olympus & Pentax Digital & Film SLR Cameras (Electronics)

I am very disappointed in this flash. There's no way to turn down the flash intensity. Its OK if you can keep your camera about 2-3' from subject, but if you're trying to get "real close" with a macro lens, there's way TOOOO much light produced!