High-end rotating flash bracket uses smooth roller bearings to flip the camera to vertical.
I don't use it anymore and need to sell to fund yet another camera. These sold new for more than $250. I'll take $100 incl. shipping to ConUS. Yes, there are less expensive brackets out there, but this is the Rolls-Royce of brackets- minus the oil leaks. If you need to use a bracket frequently, this is really sweet.
For Nikon, I have a custom shortened TTL cord...$20 additional. Not for sale without the bracket.

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The OP never said he wanted to donate his time. He wanted to know how much to charge. I've done 65 head shots in one day for a bank call center and charged a day rate. The negotiated per person rate got down to a little less than $35 each. I don't know what organization is doing this but $35 each is a very very good rate for you to consider unless you're doing no PP at all. Mine were edited, enhanced and sized to bank's website specs. Good luck. Worthy cause but you deserve to be compensated! I've given my services away much too often.

The answer is yes if you want to be serious about creating world class images.
If you're a straight out of the camera type probably not.

Why do many people have problems with using tablets?

Tablets work on the same concept as a mouse so theroretically anyone using a mouse should be able to use a tablet. When using a mouse you can rest your hand on a mouse and hence, not get fatigued as quickly as what a tablet causes. Most people who attempt to use a tablet try to use a tablet like a mouse, however you cannot rest your hand similarly and the pivot point using your arm causes inaccuracies and fatigue when using a pen and tablet.

Is there a solution to the fatigue and inaccuracy problem?

Absolutely.
By remapping only a small portion of your wacom tablet to the screen you can rest the palm of your hand on the tablet and use the meat at the base of your palm as your resting point. A 4 inch by 6 inch movement can then cover your entire screen no matter how large. To do detail work you can zoom by using that same 4 inch by six inch area. This is how professional retouchers can do such fine detail work. It is more accurate to use this method as well as less fatiguing when compared with a mouse. I have spent many 12 hour days retouching photos with no fatigue.

As a final note, speed in editing is also increased by using less surface area on the tablet surface. The speed increase as you get better is substantial.

What is the best size tablet to get?
I could never figure out why anyone would go with anything other than a small Wacom tablet. If Wacom came out with a micro size I would prefer that tablet.
Again I only use 25 percent of the area of my small. Even using the entire area of the small can quickly cause arm fatigue. I am often on the go and a small more easily fits in a laptop case than any other size.

Arron Nace over at PhLEARN.com has a great tutorial on how to remap a Wacom tablet to get better use and less fatigue. You can also google it or go to YouTube. Arron would be considered by many to be the best of the best in photo editors.

If your having trouble with your Wacom tablet try remapping it and doing your work with the base of your palm as your pivot point. I promise it will be much more enjoyable than a mouse or using the full Wacom surface area.


I once had a Wacom intuous iii large when I started using a tablet. I ended up throwing it out. I couldn't sell it in good faith to anyone. In the tablet world smaller is really better.

If anyone doing photo manipulation has remapped their Wacom to using only a portion of the Wacom and has found that works, please post a comment of how that is working for you.

I personally could never get the quality of my images without using small movements controlled at the wrist rather than the elbow or arm.

Best regards
Russ Elkins.

hi, would love some thoughts on a situation i found myself in.
i was asked to volunteer my time to photograph a fund raising event. this has always been done by another photographer in the past, who donates time and money to this charity. he was a guest at the event and clearly knew that someone else (me) would be shooting the event.

he came with his camera, took many photos. while i was processing, posting & tagging on facebook, i see a message on the charity's facebook page, thanking the other photographer and posting a link to view/purchase his photos. i was very disturbed by this.
i did send an email to the director & event planner (who requested i shoot the event), expressing my concern over posting a thank you & link to his site, when he was not the designated photographer. well, i got very nasty emails from both of them, saying i embarassed them and myself, being negative, my email disturbing etc, etc.

i feel i was asked to be the designated photographer, he was a guest. they were unethical in posting a thankyou to him for his photos with a link to his site to view/purchase, when he was not the designated photographer. they did post a link with my info late last night, 9 hours after posting his link.

your thoughts? would love to have some input on this, both positive and negative.
thanks!!

My Pixma pro 100 came the other day. I was shocked at the size of the box. My husband said alittle over kill on the box, huh baby. I was so excited about the price and the fact that it was a larger format printer. I knew it would be larger tham my mp560, so i didnt look at the specs until after I saw the size of the box. upon unpacking it I was so glad I had that big L-shaped desk. so for $49.99 I decided to keep it but Ive gotta find it a proper home for it it's huge. Cant wait to try it out. I had suggested it to a friend so I quickly text her to warn her about the size. Happy printing to me!

Yes, no and it depends.

With many cameras that have built-in WiFi or can be fitted with an accessory wireless transmitter, you can monitor what the camera is seeing real time. In other words, you can see the image before it's shot on almost any WiFi-enabled monitoring device, be it a desktop, laptop, tablet, pad or even a smart phone.

However, what you can't do on all of them is review images after they've been shot. In order to do that, you have to copy the images to the monitoring device and many of them simply don't have the storage space, fast enough WiFi data transfer rate or large enough WiFi range to be practical. You also need a software on the device to be able to catalog and access the image files... for example Lightroom. Especially the smaller tablets, pads and phones have very limited data storage space, a practical a working range that's only 15 or 30 feet, and operating systems that only use smaller apps instead of full-featured software programs.

Small devices are improving and getting more storage... And some of the large programs are being reduced in size or new, more compact versions are starting to be offered, plus apps are being written that can do more. And some of these devices may be able to work in conjunction with some sort of external or cloud storage, if internal storage isn't adequate. But as of now many of these options are sort of leading-edge and likely to be costly. Right now, it's probably more practical and affordable to work with a laptop, if you want to be able to review and work with images after they're shot.