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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 166797" data-attributes="member: 12827">Ring flashes do come in handy for macro work. They provide near shadowless light in most situations. I use my 35 year old Vivitar upon occasion. It will only work out to about 3 feet on automatic, but that is more than enough. <img src="http://scottmurphyphotography.org/images/Macro%20article/ring%20flash.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Below is an image I took with it for my macro article. It is intended primarily just as an image for illustration purposes.&nbsp; This image is the center of a decorative cherry tree blossom at about 1.5x magnification on the sensor. I used my D700, PB-6 bellows and 50mm f/1.4 AI Nikkor (reversed) along with a Nikon BR-3 adapter which mounts in the bayonet of the reversed lens and provides some 52mm filter threads so I could screw the ring flash into it. I used the unit in manual as I had to calculate &quot;effective aperture&quot; based on the bellows extension. Notice there are essentially no shadows.<img src="http://scottmurphyphotography.org/images/Macro%20article/cherry%20blossom.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 166797, member: 12827"] Ring flashes do come in handy for macro work. They provide near shadowless light in most situations. I use my 35 year old Vivitar upon occasion. It will only work out to about 3 feet on automatic, but that is more than enough. [IMG]http://scottmurphyphotography.org/images/Macro%20article/ring%20flash.jpg[/IMG] Below is an image I took with it for my macro article. It is intended primarily just as an image for illustration purposes. This image is the center of a decorative cherry tree blossom at about 1.5x magnification on the sensor. I used my D700, PB-6 bellows and 50mm f/1.4 AI Nikkor (reversed) along with a Nikon BR-3 adapter which mounts in the bayonet of the reversed lens and provides some 52mm filter threads so I could screw the ring flash into it. I used the unit in manual as I had to calculate "effective aperture" based on the bellows extension. Notice there are essentially no shadows. [IMG]http://scottmurphyphotography.org/images/Macro%20article/cherry%20blossom.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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