Lightdow RF-550D LED Ring Flash Review

This Product can be found on Amazon for $35.35.

The RF-550D ring flash is a great tool for both macro and portrait photography. It has two light modes: one for a flash and one for continuous lighting. They both work perfectly. The settings also allow you to adjust the brightness and if you want only one half of the circle to flash.

This is the 'control center' for the light. The on/off button needs to be held for it to turn on and off. (This took me a little while to figure out and I thought I had received a faulty product at first.)
The buttons are however a little slow at responding at times, but I haven't found this to be too much of a problem for me as they do respond most of the time.
Let's go over what all these buttons do.

• The 'pilot' button basically is like the test button. It sets the flash off without making you hit the shutter on your camera, allowing you to test brightness and whatever settings you need to test before you take the shot.
• Mode, as you may guess, switches the mode. Not from flash to continuous, but from left, right, and full flashes. You can use this button to make the flash only fire on one side of the circle. (this does not work in continuous lighting mode)
• Light switches the light from 'flash' and 'light' (light is just what they use for continuous lighting or basically having the light on all the time.)
• I bet you'll never guess what the on/off button does. Oh what's that? You already know? Yup. It turns this little machine on and off.
• Now those little arrows under the buttons we just went over are what control the intensity of your light. On the screen you can see the lighting meter and when you hit those buttons it changes the exposure compensation so you can manually set the brightness to fit your lighting situation.

Well that's all the buttons, so now that you know what everything does, let's check the performance.

Here's a list of all the pros and cons that I've found using this light:

Pros

• Super bright

• Plenty of settings to adjust to your needs

• Ease of use

• Comes with three 'gel' colors to switch up the colors. (blue, yellow, and a white diffusion filter)

• Comes with lots of adapter rings so it can fit on any lens no matter what the thread is

• Allows for flashing light on only one half of your image

• Not too heavy

• Bright display screen for settings

Cons

• Slow responsive buttons

• The 'Set' button seems to have no use

• Battery cover feels cheap and is hard to close/open

• Flash went off late once (although it hasn't happened again so I think it's okay now.)

So that's it for the pros and cons list, here are a few more pictures of the flash.

And Here are some pictures taken using this light.

Overall, this is a great flash and I'm loving it. If you're looking for something like this, I highly suggest checking this one out.