Received my Sunbounce Micro

After creating my diy Sunbounce with flash attachment I got tempted to order an actual Sunbounce (without the flash attachment). So I checked out the dealers list and ordered one at Adorama. Here’s my short review of it (if you just want the review and don’t want to read about my order adventure just skip the first section)

One small note to people living outside of the US when ordering at Adorama. When I tried to pay for my Sunbounce Payall wouldn’t okay the payment (I always use Paypall if I can as I don’t want to type in my credit card info on websites). I made an exception this time and decided to enter my creditcard information anyway. A couple of things happened, first of all my Bank contacted me the next day to verify, in there eyes suspicious transaction from a company called Adorama, if I could verify that I ordered something there for the given amount, I could so everything was fine. The second thing that happened is that I had to pay a whole load of money to UPS, on top of the delivery costs I already payed Adorama. Puzzled as to what might have happened I set out to research if I payed double or if something else went wrong. I finally find out that you’re warned by Adorama that there might be extra costs involved when it comes to importing, how ever the bad thing here is that they only warn you after your transaction is complete and you payed them. See the comment entry from Adorama below. Great that they reply in this way.

Anyway on to the important stuff, the Sunbounce Micro. In short? Well you have reflectors, and there is the Sunbounce, no they’re not paying me to write this, but the Sunbounce is worth every penny. It’s light as a feather and really strong. It’s also much easier to work with then the foldables, it’s really a breeze to get them in position.

At first I was a bit worried if you would actually ever take it apart, I got this really nice bag with it so that I can always take it even if I’m not sure if I’ll use it. The thing is it really took some effort to assemble. It came to a point that I started doubting if what I was doing was actually correct, I was afraid that I would rip the fabric. I decided to sit back for a moment and double check what the Sunbounce looks like assembled on the Sunbounce website. I discovered that it takes some force to get together and that the fabric might look thin but it’s in fact very strong. So if you get one of these don’t be afraid to apply some force.

And although it was hard to assemble, it’s actually reasonable easy to get it in the bag and out ready for use. You just pull out the aluminum tube at the back, roll it up and slide it in the bag. When you need it it’s really not that hard to get the tube back in position.

The Sunbounce might set you back a couple of bucks but considering its build quality I consider it well worth the money. The only disappointment for me is the big price tag on the flash attachment. Considering the amount of money it costed me to get the Sunbounce shipped, it will not be likely that I will pay for the expensive flash attachment and again layout down the fat cash to get it over.