front view of DIY ringflash box

I’ve been itching to make a DIY ring flash for sometime but had no luck finding a bundt pan to work with.

nickwheeleroz version (link below) of the home-brewed ringflashes got me down to work. I had followed his steps, then realized the cardboard box alone wasn’t sturdy enough for holding two flashes. I made enforcements by building an aluminum frame for the unit.

However, building the frame alone took alot of effort. Drilling, assembling, measuring then disassembling – repeat. Certainly something I enjoyed ;)

As a result the whole unit is stable! The only downside is, it’s heavy, bulky and ideally to remain on a heavy-duty tripod. My unit without flash & camera weighted 1.2 kg (almost 3 lbs!)

I had high hopes that I could carry that thing around, but after a few tests shots off tripod, my left arm went jelly.

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Here is a home made DIY ring flash that I am building.
I will post more images soon as it is now working, when this was taken I had not added any electronics apart from the Xenons.

It now has a 240v mains power supply I designed and built, it will also run on 4 AA batterys, it has a recharge time of < 1 second, it has a wireless trigger or triggered by cable sync.

Halter für Eigenbau-Ringblitz

Der Vollständigkeit halber…
Habe nun den Halter geändert, kein Holz mehr sondern Acryl-Glas/Plexi-Glas.

Aus dem Reflektor-Gehäuse ragen nun von innen zwei Schlossschrauben, an denen der neue Halter mittels Rändelmuttern befestigt wird und in Langlöchern verschoben werden kann!
Für die obere Kabelabdeckung war ich bis jetzt zu faul

check this gallery :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/www-gohip-de/sets/72157622851139831/with/4191869067/

Halter DIY Ringflash

via http://www.flickr.com/groups/diyphotography/pool/

ACHTUNG: Am Kabel zum Reflektor mit Blitzröhre ist Hochspannung, auch noch wenn keine Batterien/Akkus drin sind, ist auf dem ELKO noch ganz schön Dampf!!!!

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/www-gohip-de/sets/72157622851139831/with/4175607513/

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I went to Tokyu Hand in Shinjuku, and got two different L-brackets, one with that screw knob and backing included for 900 yen. Got the two camera mount screws for 500 yen each at Yodobashi Camera, and then padded the connection points with left over bicycle handlebar tape, and then electrical tape. I had to file it a bit to get the middle screw backing to fit in the hole in the longer L-bracket, and for the camera mount screw to fit through the hole on the same bracket, but it works great~

Front view of the finished 2 speedlight DIY Ring Flash

read more for photosample by this diy ringflash

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DIY Poster Board Ringflash – View Original Size

ringflash test day bij TriMM

Made a DIY ringflash adaptor for my Sigma DG550 / Canon 400D. Took a few test photos, need to take some “proper” photos with it ASAP.

Cheap DIY Ringflash design plan Diagram

Pretty easy and lots of fun to make a DIY Ringflash actually.

More detailed article (in Hungarian) here: kispad.hu/foto/200903/csinald-magad-korvaku.html

I finally decided to try making a ringflash. I based my design around this guy’s version

www.motleypixel.com/forum/index.php/topic,80.0.html and made my own adjustments. All in all it turned out

pretty good.

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