On camera flash diffuser

[Jayson]

I purchased the lumiquest promax a little while back for a wedding after reading "The Hotshoe Diaries". It worked pretty well. I use it mainly now for macro stuff. With the softbox thingy on the front and it does a pretty good job with softness. Using the card inside directs the light really well, but sometimes is pretty harsh, almost like bare flash, if you don't have the little softbox thing on the front.

My trick to making it softer is to put the stofen inside of this contraption and then shoot away. Light loss is there, but you can compensate for it.

If you went this route, you could probably buy this and make the front diffusion panel. They didn't have this when I purchased the above or I would have went this way.

[shutterdown]

+1 on what HDNitehawk says. Gary Fong all the way. I bought a Sto-Fen long ago, but never used it much. The Lightsphere works very well for most situations.