Stofen OM400 Omnibounce Flash Bouncer for Nikon SB400

by Sto-Fen

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000PH1DL8
• Item model number: 371700
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #5 in Camera & Photo > Accessories > Lighting > Lighting Controls & Modifiers > Diffusers
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

The Omni-Bounce creates a Diffused Bare Bulb Effect. Giving even coverage across the entire frame, with lenses from 15mm to 200mm in the 35mm format. (And equal in other formats as well.) The Omni-Bounce is easy to use and goes onto and off of your flash in seconds with custom fitting, except UNI, and No Velcro. Designed for years of service with out the bulk of some other Diffusers, it is small enough to fit easily into your gadget bag or pocket.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

132 of 143 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars There's a much cheaper way to bounce..., July 26, 2008

By 

Daniel A. Koblosh (Redondo Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stofen OM400 Omnibounce Flash Bouncer for Nikon SB400 (Electronics)

I own an SB400 flash and looked at this diffuser attachment. First, like the diffusion adapter that comes with the SB800, it's a bit bulky and takes excess space. Secondly, it costs. Thirdly, you can lose it.

Much easier way to bounce and diffuse an SB400: tape a white business card to the top of the flash so it hangs off the front. Bend the card at the middle upward to a 45 degree angle. Tilt the flash tube upward 90 degrees so it dumps the light into this mini white card. Shoot the photo.

You can leave the card on the flash, fold it up and stick the whole thing in the SB400's cute little carrying case. Zero cost. Replace it when it wears out.

By the way, the SB400 in a room with an 8-10' white ceiling works really well by simply rotating the flash tube up 90 degrees. By design, the exact amount of light emits from the edge of the SB400 flash when it's pointed upward. This gives a perfect amount of fill light and the very important eye highlight. You really only need the diffuser or this whitecard trick if the ceiling is so high the flash runs out of gas. The "before and after" photos shown here would look exactly the same if you simply point the flash tube toward the ceiling.

I also found that pointing it up at less than 90 degrees allows too much light to go forward and overexposes the upper half of the frame. If I use the tilting flash at all, it's always up the full 90 degrees.

37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very, very nice...read me because I want to make fun of some people!, January 1, 2011

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Rob (WILMINGTON, NC United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Stofen OM400 Omnibounce Flash Bouncer for Nikon SB400 (Electronics)

First off, and maybe most importantly, there are two groups of people who like to comment on flash diffusers...the first group likes to pull their pants up a little over their belly, albeit momentarily, and then makes some comment about a cheaper way to go. Like "I just tape a business card on my flash and cover it with a pair of old panty hose and it didn't cost nary a penny." So yes, this is a simple piece of plastic. We are paying 15 whole dollars for a piece of plastic, ok?

The second group includes me, where I don't bother pulling my pants up over my belly anymore and I whip out the $15 like I am made of money. And it works GREAT. I expected to use it when ceiling height or color was not ideal, or for portrait shots. During my sophisticated experiments (sitting in pajamas and bath robe taking pictures of the crap on my kitchen table) I was surprised that the lighting with the diffuser (flash set at the first click like Sto-Fen suggests) was superior to using the flash without the diffuser - direct or at any angle. There were no ultrabright spots and the lighting was very nice. Buy it. (Look at my other reviews and you will see that I am not always smitten with products.)

43 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works as advertised, December 2, 2007

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S. Saunders (Rocky Mountains USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stofen OM400 Omnibounce Flash Bouncer for Nikon SB400 (Electronics)

This little gadget makes a huge difference in my digital pictures - between harsh lighting and smooth illumination. I'm still pretty new at using my Nikon D40x 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor Lens, and I appreciate anything that helps to make my pictures better.

It might be possible to save the cost of a diffuser gadget like this by rigging up something out of thin plastic, paper clips, rubber bands and (for all I know) chewing gum. But I don't know how, and anyway when I'm taking pictures I usually don't have a lot of time to fiddle around with my camera first. This diffuser is small and easy to carry, and snaps on and off the Nikon SB-400 AF Speedlight for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras in a second.

Unless and until I become a professional photographer diva and can order everybody around me to hold everything until I get my camera all twiddled with and set up, I'm glad that I can use things like this diffuser to catch the best pictures I can as a happy amateur snapper.