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12/30/2004 01:32:25 PM · #1 |
I have a 10D and I just bought a battery grip and a stroboframe flash bracket. The battery grip works great without the flash bracket attached. When shooting landscape with the bracket on and the bracket handle to the left, everything works perfect. But when shooting portrait with the left side of the camera facing the ground, the flash is below the lens. When the bracket over to the other side of the camera, the bracket is sort of in the way of comfort when reaching for the shutter button. Does anyone have this problem or know a way around it?
Thanks,
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12/30/2004 01:42:55 PM · #2 |
| Shouldn't the bracket be extending to left (as seen when behind the camera) rather than the right? I don't see how you'd prevent the bracket from being in the your way for portraits with it oriented on the right side. |
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12/30/2004 01:46:47 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by bledford:
Shouldn't the bracket be extending to left (as seen when behind the camera) rather than the right? I don't see how you'd prevent the bracket from being in the your way for portraits with it oriented on the right side. |
This is true, but the battery grip is designed to take photo's with the left side of the camera facing the ground (at least it's much more comfortable that way). If you turn the camera in portrait mode where the right side of the camera is facing the ground, then it is awkward to hold the camera, focus with your left hand, and press the shutter button, if you know what I mean. |
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12/30/2004 02:53:15 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by photomayhem:
This is true, but the battery grip is designed to take photo's with the left side of the camera facing the ground (at least it's much more comfortable that way). If you turn the camera in portrait mode where the right side of the camera is facing the ground, then it is awkward to hold the camera, focus with your left hand, and press the shutter button, if you know what I mean. |
I think you're sort of out of luck. I doesn't sound like you can have both the flash above or on axis with the lens -AND- have proper access to the hand grips portrait orientation shutter release.
One solution I could think of is to have some sort of bracket that extends the bracket back toward the center of the camera's axis to get the flash directly above the lens.
Edit: Like this //www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=142741&is=REG
Message edited by author 2004-12-30 14:59:39. |
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12/30/2004 03:01:02 PM · #5 |
I have had the exact same problem, and I have ordered and returned all of the brackets out there. I conceded, and still use my original stroboframe, and just use the standered shutter release button. There may be something out there made for this, but I havent found one yet. I am pretty much using my verticle grip to hold an extra battery, and it makes the camera much "beefier"!
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12/30/2004 06:05:44 PM · #6 |
Maybe I'm missing the problem here but I have a Newton Di-400Cr flash bracket and I use the batter grip with it all the time. I never have had the flash bracket on the camera when I wasn't using the battery grip. I use the portrait controls at the bottom of the battery grip especially when I have the flash bracket on the camera. Here's a photo of the setup. Does this answer your needs?
EDIT: Oops. just realized this was specifically about Stroboframes. Sorry. Figured I wouldn't delete my note so as not to cause confusion.
Kev
Message edited by author 2004-12-30 18:15:14. |
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12/30/2004 06:24:14 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by KevinRiggs:
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That's a dandy bracket. It wraps back around the front so that it stays out of your way in portrait orientation, right? Mayhem, It looks like there's every imaginable configuration you could want in a bracket, it just sounds like you're stuck with one that is an "L" type that either mounts left or right, but interferes with the grips shutter when mounted to the right. |
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12/30/2004 07:50:32 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by KevinRiggs:
Mayhem, It looks like there's every imaginable configuration you could want in a bracket, it just sounds like you're stuck with one that is an "L" type that either mounts left or right, but interferes with the grips shutter when mounted to the right. |
Pretty much, unless I return it or just get use to it... |
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