Customer Reviews

Lomographic Colorsplash Flash for 35MM Cameras

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Don't forget you can use this thing on any DSLR or film SLR witha hotshoe or with a synch adapter. You can also put a standard camera on 'bulb' and fire the flash manually using a bunch of different colors. Just reduce the aperture say 4 stops and fire the flash five or six times in different locations and different colors. Since you can see your results on the screen it's a really powerful little addition to picture taking. Also don't forget you can just use a slave trigger to make the thing light up a backdrop or use it as a hair highlight on a flash stand along with more traditional studio flash units. Yeah - it's no different from a colored gel on a studio flash unit, but it is more portable and it's cheap enough to tape on a stick on location where studio lights are out of the question.

This is a nice flash for messing around with. It only uses one AA battery and charges pretty fast. Fits standard hot shoe.

this little flash is the most fun you'll ever have. comes with a dozen different colors to choose from and it can be used even off of your camera. its ridiculously lightweight. fits in a pocket!!!! I've had alot of fun with it. If you have a Lomo LC-A it can do some weird other stuff aswell. check www.lomography.com for more details.

I bought this flash to use on my Diana+ after becoming frustrated with the colored gel inserts for the standard Diana F+ flash.

I was happy to find that the Colorsplash Flash does work with the Diana+ using the hot shoe adapter. It is significantly less bulky than the standard Diana F+ flash, charges in half the time, has a very convenient ON/OFF toggle (especially compared to the standard F+ flash), and has a very handy system for switching out the colored gels. While definitely a welcome upgrade, the Colorsplash does have a couple of downsides.

When attached to the Diana+ (with the hot shoe adapter), the viewfinder adapter cannot also be connected to the camera. So, if you're using the wide angle lens, you won't be able to use the included viewfinder.

The other downside to the Colorsplash Flash is that only TWO of the available four flash colors -- which are clear, red, blue, and yellow by default -- can be swapped out. The real problem here is that the blue and yellow gels are permanently affixed to the unit and only the red and clear (standard flash) slots are swappable.

Still, it's a great unit and a significant upgrade over the default Diana F+ flash.

I'd seen someone on Flickr that had recently gotten one for their D200 and looking at the results raised my interest. The price is what cinched it for me and after using it a fair bit today, I was delighted. It looks a bit weird on my D200, but it works great, on camera or off.

It's one of the most fun photographic tools I've ever laid my hands on, not to mention one of the most inexpensive. The cost:fun ratio is very much in its favor - get one, you won't be disappointed.

This is definitely something to have for fun. It fits the standard hot shoe so you can use it on most cameras. however, you won't get much of an effect when you use it on digital cameras--it only washes out the image, and depending on what color you use, you can't exactly tell you used anything different. It's really intended for 35mm film. Other than that, I love the little guy.

I've had this flash for over a year now. I use it all the time and it's a lot of fun. I mostly use it with my LCA. That said, it is kind of a piece of crap. It's broken a couple times and I've had to take it apart to straighten out all the little filters when they get crunched up inside. It is currently being held together with gaffers tape.

If you just want to have some fun taking colorful film pictures out at a bar or a party or something - I would recommend the Colorsplash camera, although it will probably break, too. Just keep your receipt, most lomo products have a one year warranty. The Colorsplash camera is a lot of fun and a lot less complicated than the LCA/Colorsplash flash combo. Especially if you're drinking.

I just got this, and it's too much fun. I don't own a Lomo, but I'm using it on my Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras.

I do recommend that you remove the battery when stowing it in your bag - it's too easy to turn off and on. Other than that it's a neat toy for the $25 I paid.

Great flash for analog cameras. I'm still trying to figure out how to have the camera just right so there's enough light but not too much to wash out the entire image. It's a bit of a pain to always have to continue charging it for every photo too.

I bought this to go with my lomography fisheye and holga cameras, and it's pretty cool . . . except you have to remove the flash from the hotshoe to wind the camera since it's so low-profile. I was also hoping to use it with my DSLR, but the guy at the camera store told me I could totally fry the camera that way, since this was made for a film camera. That might have been completely untrue, but after spending around eight hundred dollars for a camera, I'm not eager to take any chances.

I don't regret buying the flash, though. It works well with my film cameras, even if it does take a little more work between shots, and can be fired manually with a digital camera.