shooting verticals

loftus's pic

Saw this pic in another thread, and just wondered how many other guys had handle setups specifically for shooting verticals. And no smart-alec comments from the videographers thanks.

darren

gosh Darren, you could just put my name there instead of videographers..

But to answer your question, first i have ever heard of custom handles for verts. ULCS makes a cool flip tray for the NikV and i am sure it is used with compact digitals

gosh Darren, you could just put my name there instead of videographers..

 

 

But to answer your question, first i have ever heard of custom handles for verts. ULCS makes a cool flip tray for the NikV and i am sure it is used with compact digitals

Hey Mike, yes i was thinkinng of you. and yep the system for nikonos was great cause you didn't really need to alter strobe position when you changed orientation (picture orientation that is). Oh the nirvana of the square sensor.....

Loftus, who's the guy with the vertical handles?

Hey Mike, yes i was thinkinng of you.

 

Loftus, who's the guy with the vertical handles?

I am famous!!!

Oh, and looking at the photo. I think he just has his port protector on sideways...

The synch socket is on top there

I am famous!!!

 

Oh, and looking at the photo. I think he just has his port protector on sideways...

 

The synch socket is on top there

well spotted . its a bit like a "where's wally" picture. wonder how the pics came out.

Don't know the guy. He wasn't too friendly. Was shooting with a 12-24 and was surprised I would use a 10.5 "Too much barrrel distortion"

Guess he does not get on this site much.

I'm sure Mike is right; the guy has his dome shade on bass-akwards. That aside, I think this is a good topic. I have asked ULCS on more than one occasion abound the feasibility of a flip tray for housed DSLRs. Basically they've told me it would be too difficult to engineer for the wide range of housing designs.

I have one for my Nikonos and I love it. I hate the look of many of my wide-angle shot when I go vertical with my housing and the light from one of the strobes is coming up from the bottom. Sometimes it works but usually it just doesn't look right.

Now I rearrange my strobes to bring the bottom strobe in from the side rather than up from the bottom but that's a PITA to keep having to move the arms around. A DSLR flip tray would be sweet.

Oh the nirvana of the square sensor.....

any camera manufacturers listening?

I use UltraLite arms and mounted a third 'T' slot plate to the bottom of my housing. For verticals I move one strobe to the bottom and now can eliminate the top/bottom lighting.

That photo by Jeff cracks me up. Yes, the poor guy has his dome shade on sideways Likely didn't read the directions.......LOL.

As far as a "flip tray" I agree with Terry from ULCS that there are too many housings to consider, plus the physical size of the thing would have people pushing "Battlestar Galactica" sized rigs around underwater. This would be reminiscent of when film camera housing shooters would mount a Nikonos with 15mm lens on one handle. Then they added dual strobes and a macro lens in a port so they could theoretically shoot a nudibranch to Humpback Whale on one dive. very, very few shooters I knew ever got any realisitc benefit out of such a kluge arrangement....

In thinking realistically with the long arms I see dual shooters using, why is it such a problem to turn your rig vertically, push your right strobe out to the side and swing your left strobe down and out a bit? I do this when shooting duals locating my trigger handle (right side) down.....

Strobes have like 90 -100 degree beam coverage, some users models maybe more. So moving your strobes physically up or down 3-5 inches won't make much lighting difference in my humble opinion

Even if your left strobe, for example is a bit higher than the right, just tilt the actual strobe head of each up or down to somewhat equal each other. We aren't talking severe top lighting.........Heck, I do this with comparatively short Ikelite SA-100R arms.....And even have done it with narrow beam strobes (Ikeltie DS50 units)

Just thinking logically versus inventing something not needed

dhaas