Ring Flash

Lomo was producing Ringflash for Holga. It’s interesting to use Ringflash. Except Holga Lomography was make a holder for other camera, so it can be used for Fish Eye, LC-A and Diana+.

Distance It gets you a better spread of light at a shorter range. When shooting macro with a ring, the light is not on top of the camera, and therefore hits the subject more evenly. A true ring is not one directional, but a bath of light that surrounds the subject and projects directly from the lens. Lomo’s light is actually 4 little flashes stuck in a circle. While you are getting the benefit of the flash not sitting on top of the camera, you are not actually getting a ‘ring’ of light. Lomo says to ‘get as close as possible’ to the subject when using this flash, and do so with caution. What you end up with is blown out highlights, not the creamy glow that you think your are going to get. Lomo has fooled you again into believing that a whole pile of color flash stick ons are going to get you great shots. They aren’t. Work with diffusion on the built in Flash, or even check out the colorsplash. But don’t bother with this one.

Here some of my picture that use Lomography Ringflash:



I have used Ilford 120 film to take a picture of my friend Giarto. I used Lomo Ring Flash on Holga. You can saw a result I have a focus on a Poster behind.










I take this Scooter picture using Kodak 120 ISO 160 film. With a Ring Flash a shinny was looks good.