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New:GaryFong WhaleTail Diffuser

Postby Oz_Beachside on Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:57 pm

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Postby digitor on Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:17 pm

From Mr. Fong's website:

$6,250 for 90 minutes of my time, and as I explained when I announced my participation in this auction - this is a consultation only - no sexual favors.

Some people obviously value advice about how to bounce a flash very highly...

Seriously folks, it's not that hard. See Wendell's thread http://www.dslrusers.net/viewtopic.php?t=24944&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 to see some examples of how professional photographers modify their strobes to get better lighting results.

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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:23 pm

Now this does look to be the bees’ knees :D
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Postby Yi-P on Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:57 am

Seriously, I've thought about this design when seeing those diffusers like "flip-it", but this guy is really making some serious money out there.
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Postby adam on Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:32 am

He's good at selling things - it looks good (like a toilet!) :)
Is anyone here getting one? I'm interested to see how it performs :)

I thought this one looks good also http://www.dembflashdiffusers.com/
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Postby Dr Jan Itor on Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:18 am

adam wrote:He's good at selling things - it looks good (like a toilet!) :)


It looks so remarkably like a toilet. So much so that it would never go on my camera.

I disappointed - I watched that entire video and there wasn't even a working demo.
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Postby sirhc55 on Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:02 am

Gary Fong

From memory - started as a wedding photographer but went into frames after his photography peaked at $75,000 per wedding. Today he owns houses in 15 countries and lives on a luxury yacht - he is successful :wink:
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Postby beetleboy on Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:06 am

Looks like a steaming pile of *frrrrrrt* if you ask me. I was silly enough to buy a Lightsphere a couple of years ago. It was used religously for about a month until I realised I could achieve better results with a little bit of common sense.

Your productivity will decrease big time with this POS attached to your flash; you'll be too busy fending off all the "Why the f$%& do you have a toilet on top of your camera?" questions to take any photos!!! :lol:
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Postby wendellt on Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:20 am

anyone who can make a buck out of stuff has my applause

thing is its not really a difusser its a spreader
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Postby Oz_Beachside on Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:08 am

agree, a spreader it is, which is ok if you have somehting to bounce off.

When I have suitable walls or ceilings, I bounce directly into them, and get great results.

Where I need a tool, is outdoors, or in environments where light does not bounce (black walls etc).

By the way, I found the bracket to connect a hotshoe flash, to a softbox speed ring. Im ordering a Photoflex AC-222SM. Its a little adjustable steel bracket, which holds the hotshoe, has a lightstand type spigot to go to my manfrotto flash bracket, and a threaded screw to mount the softbox.

Then I can use a extra small softbox, on my camera flash bracket :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Postby beetleboy on Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:52 am

wendellt wrote:anyone who can make a buck out of stuff has my applause


Agreed...but only if the product is actually as useful as it's marketing hype makes it out to be. I prefer a product to do most of it's own work selling itself; if it has to be soooooo over-hyped (as if it's a shuttle launch!) then I don't dig it!
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