The Color Splash flash adds a splash of color to your flash. It’s a dirt-cheap, plastic flashgun that contains 12 different colored gels. To select a color, just turn the dial and the gels are rotated in front of the flash-tube. You can even split a shot into two differently-colored halves just by stopping the dial between two sections.
Take a look at the gallery below to see what kinds of things you can do. I love accessories like this, or the $12 Diana lens adapter that lets you put crappy plastic Lomo lenses onto your DSLR: For less than the price of a few rolls of film you can jazz up your pictures and get excited about going out to shoot.
There’s one big warning attached to this kit, though. The flash unit is designed for film cameras. This makes it great for your Lomo, it may damage a digital camera. This is because older flash units have a very high voltage across the contact on the hotshoe.
This wasn’t a problem for film camera, as the hot-shoe was essentially a dumb switch. With a digicam, though, you could fry your camera’s innards: the Color Splash has a sync voltage of 270v, whereas the average DSLR is rated for just 10-12v. To avoid trouble, various adapters are available, such as the Wein HSHSB Safe-Sync Hot Shoe.
But at just $30, this is really the perfect companion for a disposable or toy cameras. And even if you don’t want to buy it, you might now be inspired to head out into the gray Autumn day and take color things up with the flash and gels you already own.
Splash Flash product page [Photojojo]
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