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Jan 28, 2018 13:15:10   #
wegriffin8642 Loc: Houston, Tx
 
I will soon be needing to replace my flash bracket. I have had it for about 30 years and I am JB Welding the JB Weld. Any suggestions for a light and variable positioning bracket would be appreciated. I am using a Canon 430 flash. Thanks.

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Jan 28, 2018 13:56:06   #
George Kravis
 
I've been using the Stroboframe bracket on my Canon Rebel and 60D cameras for many years and have been totally satisfied; it is light, sturdy, versatile - horizontal and vertical -, and easily assembled. Furthermore it is inexpensive!

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Jan 28, 2018 15:26:10   #
Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)
 
wegriffin8642 wrote:
I will soon be needing to replace my flash bracket. I have had it for about 30 years and I am JB Welding the JB Weld. Any suggestions for a light and variable positioning bracket would be appreciated. I am using a Canon 430 flash. Thanks.


I have one of these:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1338423-REG/newton_camera_brackets_fr10_flash_rotator_bracket.html?ap=y&c3api=1876%2C%7Bcreative%7D%2C%7Bkeyword%7D&gclid=Cj0KCQiAhrbTBRCFARIsACY7MW2B6iQU_-Ug318vLbBMk4ri-5BHZNpqcbpyAYRkrGnlDAqaXXcRKcwaAsLMEALw_wcB

Tiny, folds flat, works with cameras with and without battery grips. flash is always on top and the camera rotates underneath it. I've had mine for 11 yrs.

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Jan 28, 2018 15:32:30   #
wegriffin8642 Loc: Houston, Tx
 
Thanks. That's similar to my old one.

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Jan 28, 2018 15:32:53   #
wegriffin8642 Loc: Houston, Tx
 
Thanks.

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Jan 29, 2018 06:20:40   #
billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
 
wegriffin8642 wrote:
I will soon be needing to replace my flash bracket. I have had it for about 30 years and I am JB Welding the JB Weld. Any suggestions for a light and variable positioning bracket would be appreciated. I am using a Canon 430 flash. Thanks.


https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/743002-REG/Vello_CB_100_Quickdraw_Rotating_Flash_Bracket.html

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Jan 29, 2018 07:38:55   #
Jeffcs Loc: Myrtle Beach South Carolina
 
Look at custom bracket I love the rotation that keeps the strobe above the lens be it vertical or horizontal they are well made and not too heavy

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Jan 29, 2018 08:36:07   #
Spirit Vision Photography Loc: Behind a Camera.
 
Do away with the flash bracket altogether. Go with the Flip-It light modifier. Much better results and no more flash bracket to impede creativity and speed. It’s all that I use now. If I can locate my bracket, I’ll give it to you. The Flip-It eliminates the need for any bracket. 👍

http://www.dembflashproducts.com/products/flip-it-flash-reflectors/

Kiron Kid
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Jan 29, 2018 22:24:04   #
burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC
 
George Kravis wrote:
I've been using the Stroboframe bracket on my Canon Rebel and 60D cameras for many years and have been totally satisfied; it is light, sturdy, versatile - horizontal and vertical -, and easily assembled. Furthermore it is inexpensive!


It keeps a horizontal flash tube parallel to a horizontal sensor, too! That’s probably why it’s my favorite flash bracket.

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Jan 29, 2018 22:30:52   #
burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC
 
Jeffcs wrote:
Look at custom bracket I love the rotation that keeps the strobe above the lens be it vertical or horizontal they are well made and not too heavy


If the camera rotates, but the flash doesn’t, then they only work properly with spiral flash tubes in circular reflectors.

My former employer was a dealer for them. My boss got mad at his equipment supply manager when I proved to him why the Custom Flash Bracket was incompatible with a Canon 580 EX for our team and individual portrait photography system. I can still hear him saying, “Well, sh—. THAT sucks...”

When the camera was rotated for vertical portraits, the mis-aligned horizontal flash left subjects’ heads and feet in shadow! Yeah, THAT sucked, especially when we had just shipped hundreds of those brackets out to photographers, who were NOT happy with the results.

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Jan 30, 2018 01:17:54   #
Spirit Vision Photography Loc: Behind a Camera.
 
Long ago, when I used flash brackets, this is the model that I preferred,

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/105119-REG/Stroboframe_310_900_Camera_Flip_Bracket.html

However, I no longer use them. The Flip-It modifier eliminated the need of a bracket. 👍

SVP

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