Lumiquest Soft Screen, a Diffusion Sheet for On-Camera Pop-up Flashes. @ richardeward.com

Lumiquest Soft Screen, a Diffusion Sheet for On-Camera Pop-up Flashes.
from LumiQuest

Features:

• Front Panel is held in place by fitting around cameras nameplate
• Dimensions: Folds flat to approximately 4x4-inches

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Mixed Results
  1) The tab is too big to get in my camera's hot shoe without folding and stuffing it in, or cutting it.
  2) Apparently my camera (Cannon powershot pro) disables the built-in flash when something's in the hot shoe - using a pressure switch, so inserting this all the way disables my camera's flash
  3) Results are mixed. I didn't get underexposures, but some times didn't seem like it did much diffusing.
  Your mileage may vary, but for $10 it might be worth a try.

• Good to have on hand.
  Really handy, not a good as a real flash with a diffuser but this is in my bag all the time just in case. Worth the money.

• Trash
  What a terrible piece of equipment! First, it you have to VELCRO it to your camera, putting adhesive goo on your hotshoe. If you try tilting your camera, it falls off because of the poor fit. It is just a pain to use- make one yourself and save some grief and money.

• Product is cheap... glad the price is too.
  I had high hopes for this item, too bad it didn't live up to them. I got it for my Canon Rebel XT so that a student of mine could try it - but the camera won't even fire the pop-up flash when the sheet is attached to the hot shoe(this is not an issue with that camera and other products), and the little tab that is supposed to attach to the hot shoe doesn't fit quite right - it's too big, and I assume was pushing down on the sensors. After reading reviews decided to trim it to make it fit better and then the... more info

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