Lumiquest Soft Screen, a Diffusion Sheet for On-Camera Pop-up Flashes.

I purchased this item and when received, tried it out. In comparison to standard flash, by using it, it softened my subject matter nicely. It is a fine product and works well for what it is intended to do.

I just bought this for my new Pentax K100D because I was looking for a way to get the most out of my camera's built-in flash. The problem with built-in flashes is, that they emit light almost parallel to the optical axis of the lens, which produces a very harsh and cold bluish tint and extreme speculiar highlights on the subject. A diffuser remedies this somewhat by breaking up the straight light beam from the flash into different directions.

The LumiQuest On-Camera Soft Screen Diffuser is essentially a piece of plastic. It has a tongue on one side that is supposed to fit into the hot shoe flash mount of your camera. The other end fits over the name plate on the front, covering the built-in flash. The tongue needed some adjustment with scissors to fit into the Pentax' shoe, and the fit on the nameplate is somewhat flimsy. A velcro strip is included which should give more stability, or to cover those camera models which do not have the nameplate to attach to.
I tried it out immediately and especially with portraits, the results were very pleasing. Without the diffuser, I got the dreaded blue-white flash ghost faces. With the diffuser, skin tones were much more natural and glare was reduced substantially.
My only nitpick: My fingers had this nasty rubber smell after handling it. I hope it will go away after some use.

Needed something quick and easy to use without putting on 550ex flash and LumiQuest pocket bounce. What a great addition to the camera bag.

If you're planing of taking some indoor close up pictures. This screen will make a difference when you take close up, faces, and the skin color is much much natural and better.

Great idea, but sadly this product seems to have no effect on my pictures, taken with Canon digital rebel xti.
Maybe it sits too near the flash to have an effect?