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| Professor Kobre's Lightscoop, Standard Version Bounce Flash Device, Universal Model, fits over the Pop-up Flash of most SLR Cameras. | 
 enlarge | Brand: Professor Kobre
Category: Photography
Buy New: $29.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
MPN: U1S
ASIN: B0017LNHY2
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 Standard version has a normal mirror and is used in most situations. Compatible cameras Canon 10D, 20D, 30D, 40D, Rebel XTi OR 400, Rebel XT OR 350 Fuji FinePix Pro S Series Nikon D40,D40x, D50, D60, D70, D70s, D80, D100, D200, D300 Sigma SD14 Pentax K10D, K100D, K20D, K200D Olympus E3, E42
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 Very Effective September 5, 2008
I love this light scope. The only draw back is when you're in places with high ceilings and no walls close by to bounce your light onto. But otherwise, this was a very good investment.
 Just what I needed July 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been hoping for an Olympus-compatible model since I read David Pogue's write-up on the Lightscoop back in December. Finally... and worth the wait! It's hard to believe the results can be so dramatic. I highly recommend this super device.
Because we hate first flash! July 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Direct flash has the most unflattering light, and with a fixed pop-up flash there are no options for altering that light. When the Lightscoop is attached to your camera, and you've got white ceiling and walls, the difference will definitely please you with the even light making everything and everyone more attractive. Take charge and make better pictures.
Limited, but works well in right condition June 14, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This works as described and those pictures on the lightscoop website are truly a showing of how a picture can be improved by using the lightscoop. Of course, it is limited but that is what you get if you can only spend 30 bucks and not 300 on a flash (or flash improver as this is). I most often naturally want to take vertical pictures, but finding a white wall is hard and almost never happens for impromptu shots, so I have to take them horizontal which irks me. Anything above a normal ceiling height makes the quality go down. I was in a reception where half of the room had a cathedral ceiling, so this area was not lit as well. For 30 bucks, it can improve some of your photos. So if you want to help yourself get some better shots while saving up for a real hot shoe flash, I would reccommend, but it isn't going to replace your desire for one.
Works as advertised - vastly improves flash photos May 2, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I use it on my Canon Digital Rebel XT. It came with detailed instructions on how to set manual flash settings - after setting once the camera remembers them, so any time I want to use the Lightscoop, I just switch the top dial to M, pop open the flash and slide the Lightscoop onto the flash shoe. As long as you have a light-colored ceiling or wall to bounce the flash off of, it works great.
Note if your lens is wider than 17mm or so (a pretty wide lens), some of the direct flash can "leak" over the top, causing a bright strip on the top edge of the photo. I either adjust the zoom to be not quite so wide (I have a Canon 10-22mm EF-S), hold my hand up in front of the top edge of the Lightscoop, or crop the bright strip out afterwards.
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