Hi Mark, I've managed to snap the hotshoe off a Super A (Twice)! The first time I hadn't put it away properly and it had an AF80C ring flash on it. I had to run about 200 metres through soft mud to get to a phone to call for an ambulance - one of the people I was with had a suspected blue ringed octopus bite and without assistance didn't have long to live.
I screwed it all back together and it seemed fairly strong until it broke again a few months later. Some good epoxy glue later and it never had any problems again. I will admit I'd prefer not to have to glue MY K10D back together. I now have one AF360FGZ mounted on a bracket to one side of the lens. I have modified the flash so I can plug in a second flash tube which sits on the other side of the lens giving me a 2 flash setup without the weight of 2 flashes and the need to carry around 2 spare sets of batteries. It also fits into a smaller waterproof bag. -- Leon http://www.bluering.org.au http://www.bluering.org.au/leon Mark Cassino wrote: > Off the wall question for today: > > I came up with this here DIY flash bracket for use with the DA 100 f2.8 > lens: > > http://www.markcassino.com/temp/IMGP0839.jpg > > Basically, that's a Bogen hotshoe ball head mounted on end of a Pentax > TTL flash cord, with the other end on the ball head. As you can see from > the image, the entire weight of the flash is resting on the hotshoe. > > Seemed like a good idea, but after putting it together I'm wondering if > it will stress the hotshoe too much. It works perfectly. > > Normally I'd mount the bracket on the camera body's tripod mount, but I > want to leave that free to use a monopod. > > Anybody with any experiences that suggest how strong (or weak) a hotshoe > may be? I'm thinking that the plastic adapter that the TTL cord plugs > into would break before the hotshoe, but I' not sure... > > - MCC > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
