this is a gimmick at best.

so basically it makes the flash even harsher than normal direct flash?

Thanks, any good with nikon d3200?

over £20 on amazon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko8fEPL2yws

For a couple of quid can't go wrong even just to try it!

so basically it makes the flash even harsher than normal direct flash?

Would this be any good for shots of wild geese?

Closest store available to me is 94 miles away (Shrewsbury)
Good find though OP

shame no stock anywhere near me, good find tho.

Would be ideal for my daughter doing a level photography but my nearest store is 99.2 miles away

Thanks OP, good find. Going to collect mine tomorrow.

Definately gimmicky, bit like those add on zoom lens on camera phones...

this is a gimmick at best.

I'd say it makes flash weaker due to loss in the cheap plastic lens, but if inventor of this contraption can prove that the energy conservation law is wrong is wrong, next year Nobel prize in physics is yet to be decided.

This product will frustrate many. Your DSLR's AE (Automatic Exposure) system works to ensure the flash correctly exposes what you present in front of it according to a light sensor either in or on your camera. Thus it won't know you've stuck a product on the top to concentrate and intensify the flash down to one specific area in front of it. The result will be you'll get overexposed images (white/burnt out) of subjects that are quite close to the camera. It's also quite likely to produce a vignette affect around the edge of your photos. About the only scenario this would be good in is something like a open field/Safari at night time (I suspect the logic behind the name) where you need the throw/distance of the flash to be much further than normal. But even then it would be pot-luck over what comes out as correctly exposed. So for 99% of the time this would be pretty much useless.... which is probably reflected in the current price. Incidentally photos/video is my livelihood where I work with numerous DSLR's/cameras.

Does this have built in sensors which talk to the hot shoe

That's usually for advanced TTL metering and the majority of folks will shot in auto or program which tends to use basic TTL:

http://www.exposureguide.com/ttl-flash-metering.htm

Pop-up flash, I agree, but ​nothing wrong with hot shoe flash when used with a soft box or bounce flash. Plenty of professionals use hot shoe flash in the field where an off camera system isn't practical.

If you eat 3 Strawberry Creams from a box of quality Street, layer the wrappers (you should just be able to see your red finger through them!), and apply them to the inside of this flash booster just in front of the lens, your camera is converted to semi permanent infra red .... you can just under and over saturate the effect by adding and removing wrappers.... Hint: toffee coin wrappers act as good flash reflectors too. :smiley:

If you want a more powerful flash just go buy a decentish one, got a reasonable one from jessops many years ago on offer for £40 for our Canon dslr works really well, you can angle it in any direction inch backwards if you want to bounce the light and has a diffuser lens that pulls out built in.

If you want to get into more powerful flash photography and not into off camera studio flashes then a decent flash for your hotshoe is the way to go

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This would not affect wild geese if the geese are wearing polaroid sunglasses, the rays from the flashgun
just bounce off the sunglasses. Clearly the geese have been doing their own research.. You will notice my answer is
more subdued and less forthright in tone to some of the earlier replies.

this thing is just so bad... please do not buy it, your money would be better spent on a torch, at least that's useful in a black out. this is junk.