Where to purchase decent flash gels

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I'm shooting a lot of indoor events with my 580EX II on camera. Although generally pleased with my bounced flash results, I'm not so with the mixed colour temperatures that often occur, so a logical remedy would be to get some flash gels to create tungsten temperature light with my flash. Even though this is a trick that is widely employed, I can't really find many places that do a gel kit that fits a 580 EX II. There's this lot http://flashgels.co.uk/ who do an inexpensive kit, so I'm just wondering if anybody have used them, or if there are other sites you can recommend without necessarily having to go down the ebay route?

Much obliged :D
 
I've had a few orders from that site, they were all fine and the person running it responded to e-mails quickly. No complaints about the gels but they're the only ones I've used so someone else might have more input on that.
 
Are the pieces in the Lee Filters stage lighting gel sample book big enough?


Steve.
 
Nifkin said:
Thanks, but according to one of the reviews on that page they don't fit the 580ex II :bonk:
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:thinking: It fits anything. I've got one, but don't use it as it gets in the way of other flash attachments. Fine otherwise. I just use the gels and attach them directly with tiny bits of Velcro. Another good method is to take slighly larger gel, squeeze it into the wide-panel slot, and fold down over the flash tube.

Or, get a box of Quality Street and use one of the yellow/orange cellophane wrappers with a rubber band. The colour is close enough as tungsten light varies and it's hard to get an exact match. Tip: when in doubt, under-correct the colur rather than over-correct. A slighly warm background looks okay, but a blue background looks very odd.
 
HoppyUK said:
:thinking: It fits anything. I've got one, but don't use it as it gets in the way of other flash attachments. Fine otherwise. I just use the gels and attach them directly with tiny bits of Velcro. Another good method is to take slighly larger gel, squeeze it into the wide-panel slot, and fold down over the flash tube.

Or, get a box of Quality Street and use one of the yellow/orange cellophane wrappers with a rubber band. The colour is close enough as tungsten light varies and it's hard to get an exact match. Tip: when in doubt, under-correct the colur rather than over-correct. A slighly warm background looks okay, but a blue background looks very odd.
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Thanks for the tips. Like the one about the sweet wrapper :thumbs:
 
post#6 has some that fit a 580exII..........free posting too!
 
Thanks chaps. I will check out these options :clap:
 
The free swatch ones are too small.


Flashgels and Velcro dots :)
 
cant you just stick them under the pull out diffuser or am i right in thinking that they will melt:thinking:
 
A more cost effective option if you don't mind bodging your own attachment method is to buy a Rosco colour correction kit. You get 12 30cm x 30cm gels for about 20 notes. You can cut lots of speedlite size gels from a nearly foot square sheet. The Rosco gels are intended for use on stage/film lighting and studio strobes - there's no way they'll melt on a speedlite.
 
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