What is this? While organizing my photography equipment I ran across this small item. I can't for the life of me remember when I acquired it but I vaguely remember it coming as an...

Kickle Loc: Central Illinois

While organizing my photography equipment I ran across this small item. I can't for the life of me remember when I acquired it but I vaguely remember it coming as an accessory to another item and I am sure I never used it. Any ideas out there?

Rongnongno Loc: FL

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The first image is eerily similar to a flash tightening on a camera BUT....

Could be used to add a camera at the bottom of a tripod and use the tilt for orientation.

HEY! Just for fun we could attach a second camera to the first one by using the flash shoe!!! Creates a full circle (more adapters and cameras) - et voila!- Instant 360 panorama.

OKsprat Loc: Oklahoma

It looks like a tilt/swivel for a mono/tripod that goes between the tripod and the camera.

Kickle Loc: Central Illinois

Thanks. That is a reasonable explanation. I should have been able to figure that out myself! Since I use a ball-head on my tripod that explains why I never used it.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

Kickle wrote:

While organizing my photography equipment I ran across this small item. I can't for the life of me remember when I acquired it but I vaguely remember it coming as an accessory to another item and I am sure I never used it. Any ideas out there?

Its an adaptor for the stationary tripod to allow movement of the camera, similar to a ball head, but only one way.

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

Its a simple tilt adapter. Not a very good one either being all plastic. Might be good with P&S cameras or flash units.

FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA

Rongnongno wrote:

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The first image is eerily similar to a flash tightening on a camera BUT....

Could be used to add a camera at the bottom of a tripod and use the tilt for orientation.

HEY! Just for fun we could attach a second camera to the first one by using the flash shoe!!! Creates a full circle (more adapters and cameras) - et voila!- Instant 360 panorama.

I was thinking along the lines of a machine gun instead of a 2nd camera !!! Thots ??

Photocraig

I might be a tilt device for a flash on a light stand. Some of my 'vintage' flashes have a socket thread inside the shoe. Handy and this looks inexpensive.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Photocraig wrote:

I might be a tilt device for a flash on a light stand. Some of my 'vintage' flashes have a socket thread inside the shoe. Handy and this looks inexpensive.

Yes, since it's all plastic I'd only use if for a speedlite on a light stand. They can come in handy to adjust which way the flash is pointed inside of the softbox or umbrella.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

jeep_daddy wrote:

Yes, since it's all plastic I'd only use if for a speedlite on a light stand. They can come in handy to adjust which way the flash is pointed inside of the softbox or umbrella.

Yes, the first picture shows an end that looks like it might slide into a hot shoe, but maybe not. There are no contacts on it, though.

jcboy3

I don't know what specific device it is for, but having similar tilt adapters I can provide the following observations:

It attaches to a hot shoe but can also be mounted on a flash bracket.

It has a locking pin that is designed for use with a particular device. I have similar adapters for video lights and video monitors.

It appears to have a friction tilt. Since it doesn't have a tilt locking screw, it must be designed for a light weight device, so probably a small light.

If you don't have the device it was designed for, then you will have difficulty using it because of the locking pin and friction tilt. I would toss it.

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

It's a tilt adaptor. It is not strong enough for use as a camera bracket attachment. It is meant to go on you flash attachment to hold something as a flash to point in a different direction or another attachment for you camera.

bpulv Loc: Buena Park, CA

Kickle wrote:

While organizing my photography equipment I ran across this small item. I can't for the life of me remember when I acquired it but I vaguely remember it coming as an accessory to another item and I am sure I never used it. Any ideas out there?

This device allows you to mount a flash unit designed to use the flash shoe on your camera on a tripod for off camera use as a slave, for example.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Kickle wrote:

While organizing my photography equipment I ran across this small item. I can't for the life of me remember when I acquired it but I vaguely remember it coming as an accessory to another item and I am sure I never used it. Any ideas out there?

Mount it on a hot shoe, cold shoe, or light stand with 1/4"-20 tpi screw... Mount any 1/4"-20 tpi camera, flash, microphone, or other accessory to it.

It allows swivel up and down only. This one has that little peg used to orient camcorders properly. It may be spring-loaded, retractable for use with other devices.

There must be hundreds of variations of this on the market. If you like to come up with ingenious solutions for aiming flashes, microphones, etc., then you'll probably have something like this in your bag of tricks.

JaiGieEse Loc: Foxworth, MS

I'd think this device would mount to the threaded end of a lighting / accessory stand, using the screw mount seen in the second image. Then, one could mount a radio trigger to the other end - first image - and then mount a speedlight to the trigger.

Or, if one is using the camera's ability to emit triggering pulses for a speedlight, one could simply mount the speedlight to the end seen in image one.

There are more complex mounts in common use now, most with the ability to attach an umbrella or softbox.

This small device seems to allow for some tilting of the speedlight - thought I see no means by which the tilt can be locked into place. The thing is probably very snug fitting at first, but I'd think repeated usage might well cause it to loosen up.