Rogue Safari DSLR Pop-Up Flash Booster Compatible with Canon/Nikon DSLRs with Built-In Pop-Up Flashes

I haven't had a good chance to take it out in the field yet, but I have used it in my backyard. I am amazed so far how good it works. I have a Better Beamer and a Harbor digital flash extenders that I use on my Canon 580EX II, which are very large and cumbersome to carry. I know that they are more powerful than my pop-up flash, but I like this Rogue Safari. This little extender gets out 40 foot with no problem. It is very small, lightweight, and I don't have to worry about charging batteries. So far, I love it, and just may use it all the time when shooting birds.

When I read about this in a photo magazine I was impressed by the recommendation. At the quoted price I knew from the beginning I was not going to get a high tech piece of photo equipment. So what did I get?The unit appears to be composed of three pieces of plastic. Two, the actual case and the lens holder, appear to be made of polycarbonate. These are not high priced manufacturing components. The third is the lens from which the light is dispersed. The lens is about like you will find on some magnifying glasses or even an electronic flash. There are no other parts. That is it!I purchased the “enhancer/booster” for my Nikon D-90. It comes with a “shoe” built into the unit plus two additional spacers. I will get to those later. I start with my Nikon D-90 that has a 135 mm lens attached for the experiment. Remove the “hot shoe” cover from the top of the camera. It removes easily with absolutely no pressure. Now insert the ROUGE into the hot shoe. That is where the struggle begins. No mater what I try, the shoe will not go into the mount. Finally I am able to force the ROGUE base into about 60% of the mount. I quit at that point , as I don’t want to break it the first day. The ROGUE is not solid in the mount and will actually move a fraction to the left or to the right.I review the instructions again and again. “Firmly push Safari down and forward into the camera hot shoe until it stops”. That is not going to happen however I gave it my best shot.You may have a lens like the one on this unit. It will be similar to a light diffusor you probably have on your flash unit or on a magnifying strip or glass. It is plastic with lots of angled groves in the piece. It is held firmly to the overall unit with a ring on the outside.I turn my power to the camera own and attempt a first shot using all 135 mm at a distance of some thirty feet. Will the built in flash unit clear the ROUGE since I don’t have it all the way into the shoe. No sweat---the built in flash clears the ROGUE with space to spare. The light given out is remarkable. In fact much better than my high priced Nikon flash unit. Now it is time to take the ROGUE off my camera. It is a struggle and once again I just know I am going to break the base.Fortunately I do not.I mentioned two additional spacers. One 8mm and one 5mm. These are to be used to help uplift or adjust you flash. Since they have to attach to the hot shoe slot on the top of your camera. They present the exact same issue as the unit itself. The pieces just will not easily slot into the mount. Now can you slot the unit into the 8mm spacer. You sure can. It works perfectly and goes in rather easily.Now I know what my problem is. The Nikon D-90. Since I also have a Nikon D-80 I will just use the ROGUE on the D-80. Sorry, but the hassle and results are identical. I cannot get the base to slide more than about 60% into the shoe. It just will not go. Once again the ROGUE is not completely steady once I leave it in the 60% position.I now wonder if the writer of the photo magazine article actually used a ROGUE. If he/she did, why did they not come up with the same issues I did?One last thought. Perhaps I was sent the wrong booster. I recheck the package, “Nikon DSLR-DX” and checked in Green on the package. Nope---that appears to be correct.Bottom line---the ROGUE does what it says it will. The construction though needs improvement and if the company does not make the unit easier to fit onto the camera, it will not be long before an import shows up on the market that will fit. This unit is made in the USA. I would recommend not leaving the ROGUE on your camera and using it only when the need arises.

I have absolutely no use for this.

I have been using a Better Beamer for wildlife photography, works great, but is a bit cumbersome. I had been thinking for a while about getting a Rogue Safari, even though the manufacturer said it doesn't work with a Canon 50D, and when contacted, said they didn't know if it would work on a 90D.Well, I got a notice they were on sale for half off and I jumped on it. I tried it on the 50D first, and they were right, didn't work worth a crap, had all sorts of banding in the flash output. Ok, thought I would try it on the 90D, and was extremely disappointed that the pop up flash didn't work at all with the Safari mounted on the hot shoe. I looked close at the 90D's hot shoe and found a small button that is depressed when something is mounted to it. Firing up my inner Rube Goldberg I figured that id I trimmed the tab that slides into the hot shoe so it doesn't depress the little button (2nd pic) it might work. I didn't really want to trim the extender itself, so I hacked on the thinner spacer that comes with it (3rd pic) That did the trick, although it makes the flash a little high compared to the center of the photo. However, at the manufacturers recommended 100mm length lens, the flash coverage fills the entire frame, so no problem really.Now, for the added discovered bonus....if you slide the Safari back a little in the 50D's hot shoe (1st pic), all the banding disappears and it works fantastically!For backyard bird shooting the Safari is the hot ticket, much less bulky than the Better Beamer. It throws enough light to use as your main light source up to about 25ft or so, and fill flash to around 50ft, depending on the ISO you shoot with...I highly recommend the Rogue Safari if you are wanting to add a little pop to your bird photos, it adds a nice catchlight to the birds eyes, and nicely fills in shadows.....{EDIT: I like the Safari so much I bought a second one so I don't have to switch between cameras...can't recommend the Rogue Safari any more than that....}

Frustrated. Despite The statement in questions & answers that it fits ANY DSLR, and despite the product title that says "DSLR POP-UP FLASH BOOSTER," it does not fit my SONY DSLR (A77Mkii with Multi-interface hot shoe, the standard shoe not the old Minolta hot shoe). Yes, I see that they mention they fit Canon & Nikon. They don't say that it fits ONLY Canon & Nikon. They do not say that it won't work with other brands. Oh, IN THE BOX, there's a QuickStart Guide that says it doesn't work on Sony & Nikon FX. Why not put that statement in a highly visible spot on the Amazon product page? Really! The item was cheap enough that my husband thought it was worth the risk to try to file the foot to fit the hotshoe, it ALMOST worked. So now I we are stuck with a paperweight, unless I can use Velcro to hold it place ' haha.Too bad, I really wanted this to work. PS why don't they make this for Sony?PS Now have a Canon 7dii. The Canon version of the Flash Booster works great on my Canon. I love it. Now I really, really want a Sony version! Increasing the stars.

espectacular por el precio