Flash brackets

Jun 27, 2005 21:53


I've been looking to replace my Strobframe Quickflip.  I'm looking into getting a camera rotation bracket so that the flash head stays horizontal in portrait orientation and the shutter button is on the top of the camera.  I tried the Stroboframe Cameraflip and I really didn't like it.  The Nikon SB-800 with 4 batteries is fairly heavy and the bracket wouldn't stay rigid.  I followed the instructions for fine tuning it.  I tightened up the locknuts until the bracket stayed rigid without me having to support it.  The locknuts were so tight that I had a hard time rotating the bracket between portrait and landscape orientations.  The Nikon D-70 is still a plastic camera body and I felt like I was about to crack the camera with all of the force that I was using to rotate the bracket.  It was quite a workout.  I messed around with it for an hour before giving up on it.

I'm going to look at Custom Brackets.  The mechanism on those brackets look like they operate a lot smoother.  It will probably end up costing more that $200, but if it does what I need it to do, it will be worth it.

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