Lumiquest/Stofen flash test 1/24/03


This flash test is meant to show the effects of the Lumiquest Promax system and the Stofen Omnibounce. More information on each of these accessories can be found by clicking their names above, which will direct you to the respective company's webpage. These photos were taken with an Olympus E20 digital camera. The settings for all pictures were as follows:
  • Manual mode
  • Shutter 1/60 second
  • Aperture f/2.8
  • White balance 6500K
  • Sharpening in camera NORMAL
  • Contrast in camera LOW

The flash used is the Olympus FL40. This flash gives full TTL capability with the E20. Below you will see pictures and descriptions of each setup that I used. Please click the picture of the setup to see the photo that resulted from that setup.

A few notes -- editing was done in Photoshop 7.0 and consisted of resizing to 800x600, auto contrast (because camera contrast was set to low,) and sharpening. The exact same edits were done to each picture. I have not attempted to correct color balance, brightness, or levels in any of these pictures. I am only trying to show what kind of lighting effect each setup will give you. Second, the gold insert from the Lumiquest kit is designed to be used for an outdoor fill so the results here aren't representative of its intended use, but I did want to show what effect it has.

Here is a picture of the individual components of the Promax system (the silver panel looks just like the white one in this picture but it is a metallic silver just like the gold one)

Remember -- clicking the setup in the table below will take you to the photo that resulted from using the setup that you selected. You may then click the "back" button in your browser to return to this page.

Lumiquest, no insert, no diffuser ^ Lumiquest, no insert, with diffuser ^ Lumiquest, white insert, no diffuser ^
Lumiquest, white insert, with diffuser ^ Lumiquest, silver insert, no diffuser ^ Lumiquest, silver insert, with diffuser ^
Lumiquest, gold insert, no diffuser ^ Lumiquest, gold insert, with diffuser ^ Stofen Omnibounce, 90 degree bounce ^
Stofen Omnibounce, 60 degree bounce ^ Stofen Omnibounce, straight ahead ^ bare flash, 90 degree bounce ^
bare flash, 60 degree bounce ^ bare flash, straight ahead ^ camera internal flash ^

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