I got my ping pong ball diffusers made for the new Jansjos.
A label on a piece of PVC pipe.
Canon T4i
Minolta 50mm manual reversed onto a Tokina 100mm macro
Stack of 198 done with DSLR Controller and Zerene
Jansjos with Diffusers
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In the few days in which I've had mine, I've found them to be very useful for a limited spectrum of tasks.ChrisR wrote:If you shine a Jansjö on some tissue paper you see how small the bright spot really is - too small!
I would NEVER use them for general still life photography (flowers, guns, crockery, etc.).
Where they shine (no pun intended) is in macro photography, in particular of subjects that larger light sources (like my 300w CFL in articulated arm lamps) can't efficiently light. The problems that I've had in the past with part of a tiny subject being brightly lit with the rest in deep shadow have disappeared.
I don't have cheap speedlights which I can risk cooking doing 200+ exposures for stacking. I've never owned a strobe at all, although I'm contemplating getting one or two in the future.
The Jansjos have already been a big help. I suspect that will continue.
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So far, I haven't noticed any difference in temperature between them, but they're RADICALLY different from the 300w CFLs. They're so different I had to do a color white balance to get them to come out right. Given that I've basically shut down my outdoor macro work for the season, that wasn't much of a hardship.ChrisR wrote:Agreed entirely, I'm not knocking them, I expect half the forum has some, but I was surprised how little that enlargement of the "end" actually does. The only negative I can remember is that their color temperatures can be different from each other.