Originally posted by stevebrot B&H, Adorama, Amazon, and all the other usual outlets have literally hundreds of options for mounting off-camera flash on regular tripods, lighting stands, and in combination with other thingies.
Remember to take care that the power contact on the bottom of the flash does not contact the cold shoe or other mount thingie you might choose. Doing such may kill the flash and not all are designed to avoid such.
Steve
Yeh it's the hundreds of thingies that confuse me, and I had no idea what to go for. Ideally I was thinking my Arcaswiss attachment
stayed on the tripod, and that the thing that the flash could dock into could then be slapped into the arca swiss gripper/clamp thing, that was the idea, then I don't need to unscrew the ballhead arca thing from the tripods I use.
But I couldn't find something that docked into this, and all my current small arca plates are on camera equipment, so do I find a cheap arca plate first and then something that screws onto that (cold shoe?) and then the flash can slide into that? I have a Fong diffuser so I'm not (at this time) looking for more than this. Do you get cold shoes that have rubber finishes or something, or is it advisable to tape over it?
Currently I have claimed a new tripod, and am tripod shopping at the moment, I'm looking for a cheap and light ballhead acra swiss joint, but I also discovered my forgotten Jobypod thing, it would actually suit a flash to be attached to it, could then even use the flash in a tree etc, I need to find a way to get the flash onto it tho;