Some of the best events happen at night, but not all cameras in mobile phones Built-in bright enough and powerful flash, which will allow you to take good pictures. And what to do in such a situation? We are glad to present you the light for selfie! It is equipped with 16 LEDs that will make the flash strong and powerful enough.
The selfie flash is equipped with three modes: low, medium and high, to achieve the best result. Going to a club, to a party, or just for a walk? There is absolutely no reason to miss out on a great photo opportunity when you have this accessory that can handle low light conditions with ease.
External flash for smartphones
Do you like taking photos with your smartphone or just forgot your camera at home and need to take a photo here and now? But the banal lack of light, as always, spoils a beautiful frame for you ?? Tired of looking for ways to take good pictures in low light or at night? Are you afraid to drain the built-in battery in your phone due to too much use of the backlight?
Introducing LED external flash on your phone! will not only be a beautiful decoration for your gadget, but will also help you take great pictures and even videos at a time when the usual built-in flash on your phone will only drain the battery of your smartphone.
Led flash - LED flash for phone
Many phones front-camera, which is not equipped with a flash, and it is extremely difficult to achieve a good result when capturing a photo or video. This external iphone flash and android solves this problem, and you can easily take photos and make videos not only at night, but also just in dark rooms.
The device is specially designed to produce very bright and balanced light from LEDs with the correct color temperature.
This portable and compact selfie flash ensures you can capture quality photos no matter the ambient light. It can also act as a flashlight or become a good friend during a blackout, as it can be activated without the participation of a smartphone.
Phone flash equipped with a built-in battery for good battery life. The device charges very quickly: 20-30 minutes will be enough for long-term work.
The LED flash has three modes of operation: light, medium and high, to adjust the lighting power. But even on the most minimal operating mode, this device help you take great photos.
flash on iphone
This ice flash is unique in that it is compatible with most modern smartphones, due to mounting in the headphone jack (3.5 mm Jack). iPhone Flash is compatible with IOS 6 or later, and Android 4.0 or later.
Provides 3 brightness levels to meet different shooting needs. Brightness can be changed using the switch to give your photos and videos just the right amount of light and quality, especially if your front-flash phone is too dimly lit.
Peculiarities:
- Adjustable brightness (low, medium, high).
- Suitable for most smartphones
- Will be a great addition to.
- Has a small size
- Built-in Li-ion battery
- Flash sync.
- Smartphone flash reduces red-eye
- Built-in LEDs with different color temperatures
- Flash for iPhone comes in different colors: black, white and pink - so choose your favorite color and show everyone your photography skills!
Characteristics:
- Size: 38 x 38 x 10mm;
- Color: black, white, pink;
- Color temperature: 3200 - 5500K;
- 16 x LEDs;
- Connector: 3.5 mm Jack.
Price: $2.17
Hello friends! It so happened historically that I can’t always take a picture with a camera during daylight hours. Sometimes you have to take pictures in the dark, moreover, on a smartphone. In my case it is Nokia Lumia 520. For those who are not in the know - it is equipped with a 5MP camera without flash. And sometimes it’s necessary to “take on a pencil” the daily routine of a particular institution. In the dark, it is far from always possible to photograph the mode of operation of a particular institution normally - there is not enough lighting and, as a result, the camera cannot focus normally. But I solved the problem with such an external flash.
This kit includes, in fact, the device itself and a USB cable for charging. Yes, I did not seal - for charging.
Firstly, this is not a flash, but a backlight - it will be more correct, since it is turned on manually.
The question is quite logical - why then a 3.5mm jack on it? Very simple - it is through it that the flash is attached to the smartphone. But at the same time, no electrical communication between a smartphone and a flash there is no. That is, turn on the backlight, take a picture (or video), and turn it off. And that's it.
Of the interesting, we can also highlight the fact that the device has 3 backlight modes.
L is an abbreviation for Low, that is, this is the minimum mode. In this mode, the backlight will not shine very brightly, but for a long time.
M is an abbreviation for Medium, that is, medium and medium.
H is short for High. This is the brightest and most gluttonous backlight mode.
By LEDs. I don’t know if this is good or bad, but LEDs of both cold and warm glow are used here.
The dumbest question I've ever been asked about this flash is "if you don't plug it in anywhere, will it work?". With a charged battery, it will.
Now let's move on to testing.
I think it would be logical to show it in action first, but since I was brought up on the principle of "listen to what they say and do the opposite" (like most), I decided to start by testing the battery capacity.
What do we need for the test?
1) the flash itself with the battery already discharged to zero.
2) USB Charger. It works for me from an outlet.
Any power bank, computer or laptop can be used as such a charger.
3) USB tester. In my case it is .
In short - this USB tester combines a charging stopwatch, a voltmeter, an ammeter, and a capacitance meter.
4) USB cable male - microUSB "mother. That is, the one that comes with the kit.
From all this goodness, we will collect such a scheme.
Then we plug the charger into the socket and at the end of the charge we calculate the capacity of the built-in battery.
Before conducting the test, it is better to either rewrite the initial indicators of the tester somewhere or reset them to zero. I canceled.
Now we connect the charger to the socket. With the help of a USB tester, you can also observe exactly what current is charging. In our case, these are “symbolic” 70mA.
Please note that the red light on the flash is lit.
This indicates that charging has not yet been completed. As soon as it goes out, charging will be considered complete.
After 35 minutes, the tester shows that the current has dropped from 70 to 20 mA, which means that charging is nearing its end. At the same time, 35 mAh “appeared” on the counter.
Interestingly, after a minute the stopwatch was stopped, and the current dropped to zero. Final readings - 36 mAh.
I agree, this is not much, but I think it will be enough to highlight the photographing area.
This test does not say that the flash meets (or does not meet) the declared characteristics, since they are not indicated anywhere at all. That is, this is just an informative test - so that they know.
The second test is exactly the same flash demonstration in action. Photos will be taken on Nokia smartphone Lumia 520 in three versions of the flash, as well as without it. The smartphone will be mounted on a tripod, and the photos will be taken with the main room turned off. And since the room is a basement with three small windows (and those are half blocked), everything will be very bad with the initial lighting.
I will be photographing this wonderful power bank from Duracell PPS2. To make the difference more visible, I set ISO = 100, fortunately, the camera settings on the Lumia 520 allow this to be done.
So, let's look.
The difference is more than obvious. Of course, with such lighting it is much more reasonable to use the minimum mode - it is enough to properly illuminate what is needed. And in brighter natural light, it is more efficient to use brighter modes.
The only negative that I found with this flash is glass. LEDs are quite strong hit in the eyes, literally cut. Therefore, it would be better to make the glass matte. That is why this flash, I'm afraid, is not suitable for selfies, shooting animals, people, and so on. But it is suitable for those who constantly shoot video reviews on a smartphone. This is especially true for those who actively buy something on Aliexpress, BangGood, eBay, and other garbage dumps.
On July 23, a rather interesting project of an iblazr external synchronized LED flash for smartphones and tablets was presented on Kickstarter. Fundraising is active, and 250 of the simplest discounted offers are already sold out. It is interesting not only the device itself, but also the fact that it is being created by a team of developers from Ukraine, headed by the head Vlad Tislenko.
“The idea for the outbreak came about a year ago. I am a big photography enthusiast, like most of our team, and over time I began to notice that I use less and less SLR camera and more and more smartphone. At one point, I realized that a smartphone is enough to create high-quality pictures, because in 99% of cases these pictures are shown on the phone itself or on social networks. In addition, every year cameras in smartphones are improving in terms of quality and characteristics, and in terms of Internet downloads, all leading positions are occupied by smartphones. But there is one significant drawback in all this - all camera phones are useless in the evening and at night. Realizing this problem, and seeing the great potential, I took up the development", - told author of the idea Vladislav Tislenko for readers of 3DNews.
At first, he worked on the flash himself, until the first results and achievements appeared, then the iblazr project began to attract more and more attention. Vlad had to look for some like-minded people and specialists, while others found him themselves. “I can say that the idea itself has little value. But when there is a working prototype and a real vision of how it will develop further, new people and new opportunities begin to appear around the idea. Now a whole team of professionals in their field is really working on the project.”, he explained.
It should be said that this is the world's first portable synchronized flash for smartphones and tablets. As the developers note, the idea itself is not new - others have already tried to implement it, for example, in the iFlash product, but no one has been able to implement synchronization of light with the camera shutter. In other words, earlier it was just about an independent flashlight, not connected to a mobile device. In iblazr, Ukrainian technologists managed to solve this software and hardware problem.
It was not easy to overcome the difficulties in the field software. According to Ivan Chuba, working with Apple devices is much easier due to the standardization of the product line, in contrast to Android solutions presented by models from the most different manufacturers, with different cameras and firmware versions - all this complicates software development.
The team admits that it faced difficult tasks and several times the project was on the verge of stopping, but all the stages were successfully completed, and now they have several fully working prototypes in their hands. The Last Frontier- Kickstarter - was also overcome: on August 2, the goal was reached - the required minimum amount of $ 58 thousand was collected to start mass production and enter the international market.
The developers pay attention to every detail when creating this unique product, designed to fundamentally change the quality of shooting from smartphones and tablets. iblazr solves several basic problems: photography and video recording in dimly lit places, eliminating "red and white eyes", adjusting light intensity to avoid over- and underexposure.
The flash connects to a mobile iOS or Android device via a 3.5mm audio jack and is controlled through a special free mobile app, synchronizing with the camera shutter. The device can work as a flash when taking photos or as a constant light for video recording and video communication, the latter is possible due to the support of both rear and front cameras in the application. Among the functions of the program are brightness adjustment, a special filter that improves image quality, automatic modes, support social networks and other features that continue to expand.
Hardware iblazr is a block with dimensions of 32 x 30.5 x 9.4 mm, on one side of which there are powerful LEDs from the American company CREE, emitting light at a wide angle of 60 °. In flash mode, the illumination level reaches a significant 200 lux, and in constant illumination mode - 160 lux or 180 lux for the version made in aluminum housing.
iblazr won't drain battery mobile device and has its own 200 mAh battery, providing over a thousand flashes. The same feature allows you to use it as a flashlight that can continuously shine for 40 minutes, and in energy-saving mode - up to 3 hours. The kit comes with a flexible leg that has a USB port on one end and a 3.5mm jack on the other. While charging, iblazr can serve as table lamp or keyboard backlight.
The flash will be available in three versions: plastic black, white or aluminum housings. The cost of the first two is $39, and the metal version is $59. The start of production is scheduled for November, and in December the device will be sent to customers.
The developers have created an SDK to integrate iblazr support into third party applications and for a fee, they provide it to those who wish even before the launch of the device. Among the programs that will implement support for the Ukrainian flash: iOS - 645PRO Mk II, PureShot, FieldCam, 6x7, 6x6, Vizzywing, Flashlight, Fast Camera; Android - Fast Burst Camera, Ultra Burst Camera.
