Ray Flash Ring Flash Adapter for Nikon SB900 Flash on Nikon D300, D200, D90, D80, D70, D50 & D40 DSLR Cameras

by Ray Flash

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0025QWFN2
• Item model number: S-000751
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

The Ray Flash is a unique adapter for your hot-shoe flash unit designed to replicate the lighting effect produced by traditional, expensive, and heavy powered studio ring flash units. The Ray Flash is portable and lightweight, and has been designed to take advantage of a camera's TTL metering capabilities. Because the Ray Flash relieson the hot-shoe flash to generate its light, it contains no electronics, no flash tubes and requires no cumbersome cables. The light distribution is accomplished through a sophisticated system of internal prisms, reflectors and light-shapers designed to distribute and project the light evenly around the lens. The Ray Flash creates a unique ring flash lighting effect: a three-dimensional shadow-wrapped look around the subject. Because ring flash light originates from a circle around the lens, it produces a virtually shadowless look on the front of your subject, while producing a soft even shadow around the edges. The versatile Ray Flash is ideally suited for fashion, wedding, portrait, journalistand macro photography as either a main or fill-in light. Exposure control: All TTL functions operate normally when using the Ray Flash. As with standard flash use, manual exposure control requires the use of a light meter or test-shots. The Ray Flash is designed to fit the Canon 580EX (MKI & MKII) and Nikon SB800 and SB900 flash units. Weighing about 16 oz, the Ray Flash is lightweight and is easily supporte

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars #1 in waste of money/overpriced photo products, November 3, 2011

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This review is from: Ray Flash Ring Flash Adapter for Nikon SB900 Flash on Nikon D300, D200, D90, D80, D70, D50 & D40 DSLR Cameras (Electronics)

The Ray Ring Flash is on top of my list of overpriced consumer products. The adapter is entire made out of plastic and the reflective material inside is reflective paper. Other than the price, here's the reason why I returned it.

The mount that's supposed to hold onto your speedlight is a little turn knob at the top of the adapter that applies some pressure to the top of your speedlight. You have to turn pretty tightly in order to make it hold, otherwise, the adapter will fall off quite easily. This happened to me twice and after the second time, the adapter separated from the speedlight mounting part. I was shocked to find that the two pieces of this devices were held together by glue. Really? For a $200 product, you couldn't have the two pieces snap together or something more secure?

Utter garbage. Other than that, the results of this ring flash are marginally better than the CoCo Ring adapter.

1 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Got it based on reccomendations and it works are good as advised, July 25, 2009

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Fadi ELCHAMI "fadibou" (Dubai) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ray Flash Ring Flash Adapter for Nikon SB900 Flash on Nikon D300, D200, D90, D80, D70, D50 & D40 DSLR Cameras (Electronics)

I tried in several shoots and its a good accessory if you need extra light.