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A flash extender assembly for operatively attaching a percussive flashcube to a camera with the flash source sufficiently offset from the camera lens to reduce "red-eye" effect. The extender is a three-piece assembly comprising a retaining base identical to the flashcube base and insertable into a camera socket, a flashcube cover affixed to the retaining base and having its top wall adapted for receiving and detachably retaining the base of an inserted flashcube, and a plurality of rods extending from the retaining base toward the top wall of the cover and interconnected at one end by a flexible web attached to the retaining base. The retaining base has an aperture adjacent each rod through which the respective rod is accessible to be actuated by a flash actuating member in the camera, and each of the rods is aligned with a slot in the top wall of the cover and adapted to move therethrough upon actuation for firing a flashlamp in an inserted flashcube.