Sony Ring Light For Sony Digital Still Cameras Reviews

• Sony Flash Great

  
  By A3QTRWZUGX24K9 on 2007-07-15
  Works great! Always happy with it. Pictures look AWESOME compared with / without. All my friends are jealous.
  
  

• Enhance your point and shoot camera

  
  By A3P8J7GBBOF4VL on 2007-07-28
  Really nice for macro photography, though I have noticed you need to change the white balance to accomodate the color shift. The soft case takes some of the worry out of transporting it in your bag.
  
  

• Sony HVL-RLS Macro Ring Light

  
  By APL7AWO5AVT4Y on 2007-11-01
  The light works great on non reflective surfaces. However there are two issues. First, if the surface is reflective, the circular array of white LEDs show up. I guess the same thing would happen with anything that is very reflective, like a chrome bumper. If you take a close up of, for instance, someone's iris, you'll end up with some "special effects" you didn't expect. But, it does look interesting, especially if you center the reflected array of lamps about the pupil. Second, the mechanical setup is cumbersome. I found some modifications were required make the setup easier. Using a Sharpie to mark the height adjustment stem and the attachment slide helps make the second time setup a snap. There is a problem with the gray rubber slide that is held in place with the attachment screw. The screw tightens against soft rubber! This looks like an engineering error. To correct the problem I cut away the rubber between the attachment screw and slide and replaced the removed material with a custom fitted metal washer to take up the same space. After making this modification the light does not flop around when moving the camera. Overall - I'm very happy with this ring light.
  
  

• Does the job...

  
  By A17A7VSQ1BFA4M on 2007-12-24
  This product is adequate for what it is (A bunch of LED's attached to tripod mount for your point and shoot) and one of the few alternatives for lighting up macros with a point and shoot. It fits the Canon SD800 that I have, but needs a lot of finessing for the lens to fit in the hole inside the LED's. It is ring light not a flash with a low/high setting and you may need to white balance the image first because the lighting is harsh. The macro pictures that I've taken are pretty reasonable. It is a good alternative for taking infrequent macro shots without having to resort to buying a DSLR and macro accessories. I would buy it again.
  
  

• ring light

  
  By A2HU8WQ7ZIJDIZ on 2007-08-31
  Didn't work on the camera I hoped to use it on.
  Sent it back.
  
  

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