----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob" <S*bject: Ring lights | Has anyone had experience with any of the LED ringlights or Sigma's | ringlight? | I built an LED ringlight after trialing a number of white LEDS to check colour balance and finding they came out as close if not closer to daylight than electronic flash did. In an attempt to get a brighter output than standard LED's could put out, I ended up buying a bunch of 3W Luxeon LED torches from China with the intention of ripping the LEDS from the torch shells and mounting them in a ring diffuser (LED's are *very* directional) but I liked the little torches so much I kept them intact and make do with the lower powered unsinked LED's :/ If you want to save some money on a commercial ringlight, if you're moderately handy with basic power tools and if you do a lot of macro shots, building a ringlight is pretty simple and cheap. If you want to do portraiture with a ringlite, then using the Luxeons is definitely the way to go but don't diffuse them too much or you'll sacrifice a fair bit of light. need more info, let me know :) karl
