26Dec Meike FC100 Macro LED Ring Light Flash
The battery powered Meike FC100 LED Ring Light can function as both a continuos light, or be switched to photography flash mode. If you’re planning to use the flash mode on the light, it would be a good idea to get the one listed for your camera make / model. These lights are a good way to shoot Macro photo or video to have shadowless images with close-up products. The video above from YouTube member DioxCorp, shows this Meike FC100 is also capable of flat even continuous lighting to act as a fill light in short distances.
Meike Macro FC100 LED Ring Light Flash
December 27th, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Wow thanks for bringing this product into the light! (no pun intended). This would be perfect for the kind of video that I do and for my budget. I’ll be taking some video of some parties in the future and would love to see this light work with my t2i with a tokina 11-16 on a glidecam hd 1000. Do you think that this set up will be too heavy for the glidecam?
December 27th, 2011 at 2:52 pm
@Nathan F. – Hmm, even if it can carry the weight, I think the Tokina 11-16mm might be too wide. The inner ring would show up.
December 27th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
I’ve got mine today, and its quite good. it won’t work good on a so wide lens, I’ve used it with my Nikon D90 and a 50mm F/1.8 without issues. Running with the allpurpose 18-105, the inner ring stop showing up at about 40mm focal length, equivalent 60mm on my aps-c camera.
December 28th, 2011 at 12:30 am
Oh ok, thanks for the advice! @Andrea, So 40mm on a crop sensored camera is as wide as the ring light will allow before showing up on the sides? Also, if you were shooting video with the light, what were the lighting conditions of the shoot, iso, and f-stop used? Thanks in advance!
December 30th, 2011 at 6:19 am
Thanks for this post. I will be buying this for my wife, who is in charge of the food photography for her blog. Seeing as someone else has had success with their 50mm (@Andrea), I feel a bit more confident. Does anyone know of any example photos with the light?
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:28 pm
Excellent, was wondering about a hybrid LED video light and flash ring light last week! Is this the first of its kind, or have there been other ringflash & continuous LED combos?
Cheers!
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:29 pm
@Marq – There are tons out there, but most can’t throw light very far. They are just used for close up macro shots. This one seems to have a bit of throw to it.
January 4th, 2012 at 11:24 am
Just got mine in the mail, doesn’t work with my 24-105mm which is the only reason I bought the thing. Works alright with my 50mm 1.8 but I wish I knew this before buying. Still a pretty cool cheap light though.
January 21st, 2012 at 2:07 am
I got mine today and took a few shots with it on my Canon 28mm f/1.8 and it wasn’t too wide on my T2i. Here’s a photo of my son: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150546659012728.408068.783202727&type=1&l=38c9bec132
I got mine off Amazon.com
and had to add $1 more to my cart to get the super saver shipping. This is such a great bargain although my wife and kids think it’s too bright even at the lowest setting.
Thanks for the find Emm!