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Professor Kobre's Lightscoop, Warm Version Bounce Flash Device, Universal model, fits over the Pop-up Flash of most SLR Cameras (American Photo Editor's Choice 2008) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Professor Kobre
Category: Photography
Buy New: $29.95
Rating:  5 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
MPN: U1W
ASIN: B0017LT7BO
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Professor Kobre's Lightscoop, a bounce device for the pop-up flash on most 35mm DSLRs with interchangable lenses, slips over your camera's pop-up flash and allows you to bounce the flash like professionals bounce an expensive external flash. The Lightscoop is the inexpensive answer to natural-looking bounce flash and digital photography lighting. (Even professionals like it for casual shooting!) No more harsh shadows, bleached faces, red-eye, or cave effect from direct pop-up flash! Reviewers tell the story: "Bounce pop-up flash by snapping a Lightscoop over it, a little piece of plastic genius," Popular Photography, March 2008 "...just as if you had used one of those reflector umbrellas that the pros use," David Pogue, New York Times, "Circuits." -- "It slips into your camera's hot shoe, fits right over the pop up flash, and redirects the camera's flash to a ceiling or wall. That's bounce, baby, bounce... as essential as a lens cap," DingbatMag, the monthly review of Cool Tools "Your pop-up flash doesn't have to suck... I was stunned by the difference," Terry White's Tech Blog The Warming Lightscoop has a gold-tinted mirror. Professionals often use a filter over the flash to achieve a warm effect when shooting portraits. Since filtering a pop-up flash reduces its power, the gold-tinted mirror warms yet still properly exposes pictures. Compatible cameras Canon 10D, 20D, 30D, 40D, 50D, Rebel XTi OR 400,
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Lets amateurs use the pop-up flash to make professional-like light April 29, 2008
Thinking Person (San Francisco, CA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Professor Kobre's Lightscoop, Warm Version Flash Diffuser, Universal model, fits over the Pop-up Flash of most SLR Cameras.
I'm basically duplicating my review for the Standard Lightscoop, because if you haven't read about the Standard version you can't really understand the Warming. First, this is NOT a diffuser, but a device that uses a mirror to bounce the light from the pop-up flash to a ceiling or wall. A diffuser softens the direct light coming from the flash but can't evenly light foreground and background subjects. Bouncing the flash is how professionals get great lighting effects with their expensive flashes. You've probably seen them at work at weddings or events, when they tilt the flash head to point up to the ceiling or sideways to a wall. So the Lightscoop instantly, easily, and inexpensively adds this kind of versatility to SLR cameras that have pop-up flashes -- without spending big bucks on another piece of equipment. I bought a new lens, for example. Maybe later I'll buy a fancy flash, but right now I have enough to learn. This warming version, which I also have, has a gold-tinted mirror. When you bounce the light with that, it gives a warm tone to the picture... Check out the Lightscoop Users Group on Flickr to see what other ordinary people are doing with this amazing and easy-to-use piece of equipment.
PURE GENIUS! UNBEATABLE PRICE! May 1, 2008
Jerald Lazar (los angeles, ca United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Professor Kobre's Lightscoop, Standard Version Flash Diffuser, Universal Model, fits over the Pop-up Flash of most SLR Cameras.Professor Kobre's Lightscoop, Warm Version Flash Diffuser, Universal model, fits over the Pop-up Flash of most SLR Cameras.
Drastically improve your flash photography with this absolutely ingenious invention. Why hadn't someone thought of this before? It's a cleverly engineered way to bounce lighting for indoor shots, so that you avoid common flash-photography problems (red-eye, blacked-out backgrounds, washed out facial details, and all other nasty-looking byproducts of harsh direct lightsource).
It makes your photos look more natural, and even more professional (since you're using a technique that professionals routinely use, but for a tiny fraction of the cost).
It's lightweight, durable, easy-to-use right out of the box, completely foolproof. The Lightscoop is a godsend for amateur photographers -- your candid snapshots and portraits will instantly look a thousand times better.
Prof. Kobre, the Lightscoop inventor, has personally trained the nation's leading photojournalists for the past 3 decades, and has written the acclaimed definitive textbook used in photojournalism classes everywhere. Prof. Kobre spent years perfecting this quintessential solution to eradicating bad flash photography.
So what are you waiting for? If you're spending hundreds on a camera, then fork over an extra $30 to get the most bang for your buck. In fact, get one for yourself, and one for a friend. Makes a great affordable present for camera junkies, who will love you for giving this to them.
Lightscoop: lightweight, durable, inexpensive and it works. May 16, 2008
Charles Savage (Stanford, IN USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Lightscoop enhanced flash photos with my Nikon D80 have been excellent: attractive bounce flash lighting from the pop-up flash on the camera. I always thought it should be possible. Now I know it is.
The Lightscoop is easy to use and produces just the kind of lighting from the built-in flash that I had previously only dreamed about. The standard Lightscoop, evenly fills indoor flash photos with natural looking light direction and shadow. The warming Lightscoop does all this and more by enhancing flash portraits with warm, flattering skin tones. And, both versions give the camera a sleek, modern look that I rather like.
If you are a digital SLR user like me -- rarely use flash, and when you do are always unhappy with the washed-out results of the camera's pop-up flash -- you will love this product. Why buy an expensive external flash unit dedicated to your camera when Lightscoop is lightweight , durable, inexpensive and it works? Few camera accessories, I have found, deliver so much value for so little cost.
 LightScoop passes the test for Dance Photography May 1, 2008
Robert Abrams
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
My web magazine, ExploreDance.com, field tested the LightScoop and found that if the venue meets the LightScoop's stated parameters (esp. low, light colored ceiling), then the LightScoop is a very useful addition to the dance photographer's tool kit. Many dance venues do meet these parameters.
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Professor Kobre's Lightscoop, Standard Version Flash Diffuser, Universal Model, fits over the Pop-up Flash of most SLR Cameras.
Great if you have a white ceiling October 15, 2008
Katrin
Overall I am very pleased with this product. Before I was not able to take quality pictures of my children indoors, now I get great pictures that are not washed out and represent the cozy atmosphere of low light. I posted some before and after pictures. They are not great pictures, but they show the difference in lighting.
However, please read the manual (I almost through it away with the packaging) it only works with manual settings (the instructions are easy to follow: 1/200 and the lowest aperture your lens allows).
Also, this will only work if you have a "normal" height (not cathedral height) room with a white ceiling. With that said, if you want to take pictures in low light outside (Halloween is coming up) this tool will not work.
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