Wayne,
Sounds like you were living dangerously that day. There are many flash
extenders available through Porter's Camera for one. I have two that I like.
The Stroboframe is well made by the Saunders Group. It is short but has a
hinged flash mounting arm and a nice padded hand grip. The Siegelite is
double hinged and extends from about 12 inches to 24 inches above the
camera. Another approach is to put the flash on a separate column attached
to the tripod using a Bogen Superclamp with a flexible arm and flash shoe
adapter. The Bogen assembly is more expensive but also more versatile as
long as you are using a tripod or other camera support. /jim
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Wayne Culberson
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 6:46 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] flash bracket advice/wtb/long ramble
We spent part of the afternoon yesterday trying to get a family photo, using
a tripod and self-timer, not an easy task. Its not often that we have all 7
of the family home at once now, but did yesterday, it being Canadian
Thanksgiving. Since it was a nice sunny day, we thought we'd give it a try.
We tried a couple of locations, on some rocks by the seashore using the
OM1n/50mm/portra400VC, and grouping around some boulders on the edge of a
lake. To get everyone in at the lake edge, I had to set the tripod actually
out in the edge of the water. I wanted to try some fill flash because of
harsher sun, so set up the Yashicamat 124g/Portra 160NC (looking for
something to enlarge, and had no Portra 160 in 35mm), and used a potato
masher flash which I had to balance on top of the camera with the viewer
closed. Since there was a little breeze going, I was quite nervous that my
flash might end up in the lake. If it fell, there was no hope that the PC
cord would hold it all together. Well, we lucked out, no flash casualities,
and hopefully got a decent shot somewhere out of the 30 or 40 shots we took.
So, I think I need to invest in a flash bracket. Is there anything, probably
generic, that I can get that would work with both the Yashica TLR/potato
masher, and with OM body/t32/duosync cord? Or does anyone on the list have
one they want to sell?
Wayne
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