flash bracket?

Foques

Good day.

Can anyone suggest me a good, yet affordable flash bracket?
I'm tired of shoe mount limitation

thank you.

Foques

anybody?

Art Scott

I have used STROBOFRAMES CAMERA ROTATOR BRACKETS FOR OVER
25+ yrs.......I just recently decided to try a RPS bracket (copy of the Alzo bracket) cool idea but it wasn't for my style of shooting.......then I remebered Scott Quier had mentions he really liked his NEWTON BRACKET........So here is a link to the NEWTON BRACKETS AT B&H ......THEY LOOK well balanced and small.....they do make a riser if one wants or needs more height on the flash...........I will be sending mine to Mr. Newton to have a Manfrotto QR system machined to fit it......everything I have is fitted with RC2 QR plates......so this is the most economical path for me at this time.

Hope this helps............will have a Stroboframe RL2000 and a R4B going up for sale real soon...............

Foques

Art, next time I have a question, i'll just PM you

I am yet to ask a question you didn't have an answer for.

Will wait for your FS thread.
thank you!

paddler4

I've only recently started using a bracket, and I have experience with only one, but I have been pleased with it: http://www.dembflashproducts.com/bracket/

Art Scott

paddler4 wrote:

I've only recently started using a bracket, and I have experience with only one, but I have been pleased with it: http://www.dembflashproducts.com/bracket/

How sturdy is that??

Art Scott

Foques wrote:

Art, next time I have a question, i'll just PM you

I am yet to ask a question you didn't have an answer for.

Will wait for your FS thread.
thank you!

I do my best to help when I can. PM if you want but if asked on here all can benefit:Drofl ....................................maybe.

fredjclaus

I agree with Art. Stroboframe is my choice. I used to use the StroboFlip, but I got rid of it when I stopped doing weddings. Now that I'm back in the game, I wish I had kept it. Now it's going to cost me $60.00 to get a new one.

Foques

I have tried about 6 different makes.. and I am going to opt out for a bounce card and bouncing from ceilings.

Brackets are not for me.

ImageX Photography

fredjclaus wrote: »

I agree with Art. Stroboframe is my choice. I used to use the StroboFlip, but I got rid of it when I stopped doing weddings. Now that I'm back in the game, I wish I had kept it. Now it's going to cost me $60.00 to get a new one.

I have a stroboframe flip too....but what's up with the design? Why is the handle on the left. It puts the flash on the side. If you mount it like it seems like your suppose to.... nothing lines up The handle gets in your way/hand if you mount it to right. I don't get it. You can adjust them so it works right BUT then the flash is off center. What gives!

ziggy53

The Stroboframe Flip, Folding Flip and Quick Flip 350 all mount with the main support designed to be on the left of the camera, partly, I suspect, to keep them compact and out of the way of the camera's card door and camera's battery door. This makes them very light, but I agree that I don't like the design very much.

I use the Stroboframe Pro-T which places the main vertical support on the right "and" ahead of the camera. While this does move the center-of-gravity forward a bit, I feel it's a much better solution overall. When used in the portrait/vertical position it also keeps the shutter button positioned where I want it.

ImageX Photography

ziggy53 wrote: »

The Stroboframe Flip, Folding Flip and Quick Flip 350 all mount with the main support designed to be on the left of the camera, partly, I suspect, to keep them compact and out of the way of the camera's card door and camera's battery door. This makes them very light, but I agree that I don't like the design very much.

I use the Stroboframe Pro-T which places the main vertical support on the right "and" ahead of the camera. While this does move the center-of-gravity forward a bit, I feel it's a much better solution overall. When used in the portrait/vertical position it also keeps the shutter button positioned where I want it.

Yep, now I remember talking with you about it before. I am going to check out the Pro-T! Thanks!!!

They could have easily made The Flip work right. The top bar, where the flash mounts to, needs to have extra holes drilled in it for adjustment. You could put handle on the right.... far enough away from pinching hand and/or door and the adjust top bar to center flash over lens. Would have been too easy! I don't know what the heck they were thinking! They are flipping the wrong way! Their product is very specific in it's purpose but yet they got it all wrong. I just don't get why they didn't do it right.

ziggy53

Foques wrote: »

I have tried about 6 different makes.. and I am going to opt out for a bounce card and bouncing from ceilings.

Brackets are not for me.

Bounce cards work fine with low ceilings, but not so well for tall ceilings or dark ceilings or colored ceilings.

The scoop design woks much better in almost every environment and, since it doesn't require bounce, works with no ceiling like outdoors and photographing pointed at an angle other than straight ahead.

This was both a high ceiling and angled downward using a scoop:



This was outdoors, under a pavillion, subject seated but I was standing:



Subjects on the stair landing below:



Angled down and very close:

Foques

Scoop?
Linky, please?

ziggy53

Foques wrote: »

Scoop?
Linky, please?

Sorry, I was thinking I had already mentioned the link:

http://www.fototime.com/inv/908195739C4C0D3

Also this similar device from a Smugger:

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/1427850

(I do like the scoop design better.)

Foques

oh wow. I was skeptical of these.. I guess, I'll have to try it out. Thank you!