Gary Fong Puffer Pop Up flash Diffuser for DSLR's CANON / NIKON / OLYMPUS / PENTAX (excluding Canon T4i)

Initial Notes:The product I received from the seller 'eDirectPhoto' was *not* the one listed on this product's page. Instead, the product I received might be described as a knock-off, one very similar in form and function to the advertised Gary Fong Puffer, but nonetheless a different product.I received instead the Eirmai Pop-Up Flash Diffuser. Err, well I'm actually unsure of the spelling of that brand name, however, because not only is the logo on the package moderately confusing to decipher, but the website listed on the packaging, eirma.com, does not exist!Anyway, the product itself is pretty much the same as the Gary Fong version, save for a few points I'll list below.What I liked:- The Eirmai/Eeirmai/Eirma(??) Pop-Up Flash Diffuser comes with three different colors of diffusion: white, blue, and orange. While the blue and orange options are much too extremely colored to be useful in all but the craziest of color temperature situations, they are still welcome in that they add some slight functionality to the product. To my knowledge, the Gary Fong version of the product only comes with the white diffuser.- Included in the package was a tiny little plastic hot shoe adapter to that the Diffuser may be fitted to all types and sizes of conventional hot/cold shoes. This also is a piece not found in the Gary Fong package; the original product must be purchased separately depending on which of two shoe sizes your camera has. Thus, more compatibility is added.What I didn't like:- Build quality is noticeably less than that of the Gary Fong Puffer. As you may have read, Gary Fong himself posted an updated Puffer design to these reviews which shows how his product was modified to improve structural rigidity. Eirmai's version lacks this modification and is, as a result, more prone to snap in half if stressed in the center.- I have to bend the two prongs of the product outward to reach their respective mounting holes on the diffuser due to the base being slightly warped inward. Also, I'm nitpicking here but, the rear portions of the arms on the Eirmai diffuser are rounded as opposed to being squared off as in the Gary Fong version; the roundedness combined with the warping makes it hard to attach to the camera without a diffuser attached.Conclusion:This isn't the product I ordered, so I'm ultimately still annoyed - I will definitely never purchase any products that are labeled as being sold via eDirectPhoto again. That said, what I did receive ended up being decent. In some areas, the Eirmai diffuser actually beats the Gary Fong version in value, so I have to give it some credit for that. In the long term I'm still a bit worried about the build quality, however.So, to all future buyers, I'd take this as a warning to make sure you refrain from purchasing merchandise from unknown sellers like eDirectPhoto. The irony now is that, as I check the product page for this item, I see it has been re-listed as being sold from Gary Fong, which is probably a good thing.

I rarely take flash photos with the pop-up on my camera, and don't own a hot shoe unit; all of my photos, indoors and out, are taken via available light, but I have to admit there's been the odd time when a flash would come in handy, for a bit of fill-in for instance. So I finally took the plunge and parted with my $20 or so for the Puffer, and I have to say I'm glad I did!I paid close attention to the 1 star reviews, and was very aware of the issues that some people seemed to be having with the unit as far as its "build quality" was concerned, so when it turned up I wasn't exactly expecting anything particularly substantial. It's plastic of course, but not particularly "brittle;" I never felt that it was going to snap for instance, and it slides on and off my hot shoe without any problem whatsoever.I found the easiest way to set it up initially was to put the "frame" onto the hot shoe, pop the flash, adjust the diffuser up and down in front of the arms 'til you find the sweet spot where the center of the flash and diffuser more or less line up, take the frame off, push the diffuser onto the ends of the arms, then pop the whole shebang back onto the hot shoe and you should be good to go!Once I had it adjusted as accurately as I could I just left it assembled and threw it in my camera bag; it's slides right onto the hot shoe without any bother, as long as the flash is down.A picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words, so I've posted two photos, the black cat, and cropped in fairly tight to his eyes. I did want to show you "before" and "after" shots, but cats, or at least mine, never co-operate; as soon as the flash went off in his face he was out of there! LOL!The photo was taken with a Canon XSi + 50mm 1.4 @ f2.8; I was fairly close, and am quite sure that without the Puffer the red-eye would have been absolutely vicious. All I can really say is that for me, the Puffer works, and with the exceedingly limited amount of use it will probably get, I still consider it to be terrific value for money.

Gestern bestellt, Vorgestern geliefert. Wie gewohnt alles sehr schnell, danke dafür!Zum Diffuser kann ich sagen, er funktioniert. Natürlich hat man hiermit nicht sofort top Ergebnisse, dennoch macht er das Licht und somit die Schatten merklich weicher. Der Weißabgleich fällt dann tatsächlich wärmer aus, aber dafür gibt es ja 1. manuellen Weißabgleich und/oder 2. Photoshop.Gute Ergebnisse bringt auch die Umstellung des Weißabgleichs auf "Kunstlicht", zumindest in meinen ersten Tests.Das ganze kann und will natürlich keinen externen Blitz ersetzen, dennoch hilft es, wenn man auf den Eingebauten angewiesen ist, das Licht etwas natürlicher wirken zu lassen, denn die internen Blitze neigen doch dazu, alles und jeden zu zerschießen.Ein kleiner Tipp noch: Ich habe eine Canon EOS 600D. Diese schaltet den internen Blitz automatisch ab, wenn der Blitzschuh belegt ist. Schiebt den Diffuser einfach nicht bis zum Anschlag rein, dann funktioniert alles wunderbar und er hält trotzdem, da die Passform (zumindest bei meinem Exemplar) sehr gut ist.Für den kleinen Preis von 13 € kann ich diesen Diffuser also definitiv an alle weiterempfehlen, die hin und wieder den internen Blitz benutzen (zB. auf für die Steuerung von Slaves)

My dad is a realtor so when he borrowed my puffer to photograph a house, I'm pretty sure he left it there. I thought I could make do without it, but I was wrong. It's a great alternative for when I don't need my Nikon off camera flash, but don't want the harshness of front flash attached. It's also nice and small, so I bring it during travels as well.

Tja das Produkt ist spitze nur leider kann man es nicht mir einer EOS 650D benutzen, der Blitz lößt nicht aus wenn man den Puffer auf den Blitzschuh geschoben hat und somit inkompatibel.Leider ist das nicht in der Artikelbeschreibung zu lesen daher musste ich das gute Stück schweren Herzens zurück schicken.Na weiter mit selbstgebastelten Diffusoren arbeiten, schade.

This device is designed to slide into the flash hotshoe without telling the camera there is something inside. If the camera sense something in the hotshoe, it won't pop. My camera 60D is very sensitive and won't flash with this PUF inside. I do not blame for the design of Gary Fong, but it should at least say which models have more risks of incompatibility.

Does an excellent job making photos look much more naturalistic and isn't as large and cumbersome as the larger types. Bit of a hassell to carry around but totally worth the little bit of inconvenience.