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BACKSCATTER MINI FLASH

THE ULTIMATE COMPACT STROBE FOR COMPACT CAMERAS

Lightweight, compact, easy to use, easy for travel. These are the reasons why everyone wants a compact camera. With the Backscatter Mini Flash, now there is a flash to match. Small in size, but big on power, the Backscatter Mini Flash has enough juice to light most of the scenes compact cameras are used for. From macro and fish portraits to wide subjects like stingrays, turtles, and reef scenes, it’s a great all around strobe to keep your rig nice and compact, and easy to use.

Plus with the bright LED focus lights built in and optional Optical snoot and color filters for creative lighting, this is a strobe with professional level macro capability you’ll never outgrow.

Backscatter Mini Flash MF-1 Underwater Strobe - MF-1 on Olympus TG-6 & PT-059 Underwater Housig
The Olympus TG-6 to keep your camera rig a compact size for travel.


A FLASH BEAM TAILOR-MADE FOR MACRO

Most of the conventional wisdom surrounding underwater strobes is that brighter and wider always equals better. If you're shooting macro underwater photography, you want the exact opposite. You want a tightly controlled light to pinpoint the subject and keep the background as dark as possible. The Optical Snoot OS-1 makes it the perfect macro strobe to give you the creativity you've been missing.

STROBE AND FOCUS LIGHT ALL IN ONE

If you’ve ever used a larger strobe made for wide angle, you know it can be hard to get in tight spots, especially with dual strobes and managing a separate focus light as well. The small size of the Optical Snoot OS-1 focused the light only on the subject.

THE EASIEST TO USE MACRO STROBE + SNOOT COMBINATION

Using a strobe with a snoot was once really difficult. Aiming a snoot took lots of practice. We designed the Mini Flash and Optical Snoot together with the purpose of making shooting with a snoot as easy as possible. With bright LED lights that project the same beam pattern as the flash through the snoot, you can easily see the exact placement of the snoot beam on your subject when framing a shot and know you are hitting your target. Have a critter that doesn’t like a constant light on all the time? Use our short duration modeling flash to check your snoot placement without continuously disturbing a light sensitive critter.

How to use the Optical Snoot OS-1 make it super easy with the bright LED lights showing you exactly where the beam is pointed so you can frame the shot with ease.


SUPER BRIGHT SNOOT OUTPUT FOR DARK BACKGROUNDS

The key to success in snoot photography is having dark backgrounds in bright ambient light conditions. The Optical Snoot OS-1 combination has a brighter output when compared to other snoot/strobe combinations on the market. This shot was done at ISO 64 and ƒ32 at 1 click down from full power on the strobe. No exposure adjustments were made in post.

PRECISE LIGHTING CONTROL WITH APERTURE CARDS

The Backscatter 
Using the Oval Aperture Card allows tailoring the light so that it precisely hits the subject, not the surrounding sand.

THIS LITTLE BEAST ALSO LIGHTS GREAT WIDE ANGLE IMAGES

Even though the Backscatter Mini Flash MF-1 combined with a wide angle diffuser can shoot great wide angle images too. This is not just a macro strobe.

BIG POWER IN A LITTLE PACKAGE

Don't let the tiny size fool you. The Backscatter Mini Flash MF-1 has plenty of power to spare and won’t let you down when you come across a killer subject like this octopus at the end of an 80-minute dive.

SIX STROBE LEVELS AND 3 LIGHT POWERS - WITH OVERSIZED CONTROLS

Dial-in the perfect exposure with six strobe power levels, while the LED lights have three power levels. An oversized and cold water-friendly big red knob makes it easy to have precise strobe power control without having to take your attention away from shooting to look at the dial position. The oversized and easy to press silver button toggles through the three power levels on the focus lights and a press and hold activates the modeling flash.

DUAL O-RING SEAL = DOUBLE WATERPROOF

The battery compartment features a double O-ring seal to keep you safe from O-ring maintenance errors. Of course, you need to clean and maintain the O-rings before every use, but our double seal will help reduce water damage from common errors.

FIBER OPTIC SIMPLE - AUTOMATIC FLASH SYNCHRONIZATION

Setting up pre-flash cancellation is a breeze. Simply plug in a fiber optic cable and take a test shot. The Backscatter Mini Flash MF-1 will automatically detect the camera’s internal flash shooting mode on the first flash after power-up and store it in memory on your first test shot. If you change cameras or settings, simply turn the MF-1 on and off and take another test shot to update the setting. No need to worry about the wrong setting on the strobe.

GET CREATIVE WITH COLOR FILTERS

Advanced photographers and beginners alike can open up some really cool possibilities and create some surreal effects. Colored backgrounds, backlighting, and bokeh tricks are all much easier to do with a strobe rather than a torch or video light. Color filters for the MF-1 have been tested and are coming in the first quarter of 2020.

Backscatter Mini Flash MF-1 Underwater Strobe - ©Jim Decker -  Nudibranch with Red Bokeh
Using the Backscatter Mini Flash MF-1 with a color filter for the background lets you add more creative elements to your compositions...and get freaky :)
 

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