Has anyone use Gary Fongs light sphere Dome difusser?

I was looking to get a difusser for my 580EX and wondering if anyone has any experience using the lightsphere.I checked out the website which sold the lightsphere but I am not sure how good it is. Is the lightsphere worth the money to try. Thanks

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Does it work? Yes. Are there other solutions? Yes, many. In fact too many. But it depends on what you want to take pictures of and what kind of environment you will be in. As you will find out here, the LSII does waste a lot of light. The Lumiquest ProMax system is more efficient but is best used with a bracket IMO. Bouncing the light also works very well when you get it right.

o2happpy wrote in post #2278162
I was looking to get a difusser for my 580EX and wondering if anyone has any experience using the lightsphere.I checked out the website which sold the lightsphere but I am not sure how good it is. Is the lightsphere worth the money to try.

All of the "tupperware" diffusers, including the Lightspheres and several others, require nearby reflective surfaces such as walls and/or ceilings to reflect the light back toward your subject. Without such reflective surfaces, all they really do is waste the light from your flash by sending it in all directions instead of towards you subject.

That said, they can work just fine in a typical home environment. However, significant wall coloring can and does affect the light from your flash when you are reflecting the light off the wall.

Outdoors or in large building areas such as ballrooms, I find them rather useless.

The LumiQuest Promax System is my choice for a single package that has many versatile ways it can be used. See this link for more detail: LumiQuest Promax System

I just sent my Lightsphere II back to BH. I'm sure in certain situations it is great but for my purposes and testing I could not justify $50 for a wonton soup container on my flash. I am looking into other types of diffusion.

Each of us have to figure out what works for our style of photography and favorite techniques...we love our "wonton soup containers"!

I barely know anything about flash photography (I just got my flash), but this diffuser came with my flash and it really seemed to not be as effective as the omnibounce diffuser.

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Wilt, you mentioned that the LS relys on a ceiling or walls for bounce, does the white inverted dome that comes with some LS's act as a ceiling?

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MegaTron wrote in post #2279440
Wilt, you mentioned that the LS relys on a ceiling or walls for bounce, does the white inverted dome that comes with some LS's act as a ceiling?

That inverted dome probably keeps some light from 'leaking out the top' where it goes wasted when there is no ceiling, and it probably does serve to very modestly serve to increase the apparent size of the light source, but it probably does the most to relieve believing photographers of funds and divert it in his direction!