Economical ring flash

Well, as is usual with stuff sold on the likes of Amazon, there's a lot of blurb but very little real info :(

From what I've read though, it's a continuous light, powered by LED's not a flash and because of this, even at macro distances you're going to be seriously short of power unless you increase your ISO setting quite dramatically - which, depending on your camera, may or may not have a big impact on image quality.

One of the other things they don't bother to tell us is its size, a small one will be fine with macro but not with portraits, for portraits you need a full size ringflash because, at portrait distances, a small one won't give a ringflash effect, even if it has enough power - which it won't.
 
As Garry says. The Americans call a torch a flash light, which means there are a lot of misleading ads about.

The cheapest decent macro ringflash I know of is this Yongnuo for £72 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yongnuo-YN-...69385&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=yongnuo+ringflash It has a good rep though I've never actually used one. There are quite a few very similar looking under different brand names. Or maybe consider a ringflash adapter like the Rayflash if you have a good flashgun.
 
I've been super impressed with Yonguo flash guns (have 3)- I've heard good things about their ring flashes to. Garry always gives super advice too ;-)
 
The Yonguo us a very good piece of kit for the money. The LED type are crap.
 
:plus1:I bought one of the LED ones as it was cheap, OK for lighting coins etc. but useless for anything else.
 
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