carbon strobe arms

I was at yesterdays NEC dive show and the one thing that I see that i thought " MMMMMmmmm yea I want " was some nice carbon fibre strobe arms. I was at the UW-Fotopartner stand chatting to Stefan Horvath and he showed me these arms that he is going to be releasing at DEMA. The build quality seemed very good and certainly very light. Available in various lengths i am pretty sure these are going to be quite popular.

Stew

I was at yesterdays NEC dive show and the one thing that I see that i thought " MMMMMmmmm yea I want " was some nice carbon fibre strobe arms. I was at the UW-Fotopartner stand chatting to Stefan Horvath and he showed me these arms that he is going to be releasing at DEMA. The build quality seemed very good and certainly very light. Available in various lengths i am pretty sure these are going to be quite popular.

 

Stew

They look quite nice on the website, but the translation is quite funny.

"Through the smaller dead weight in comparison with other arms, the emphasis economy does not affect only at the flight baggage, but in the water the case with the arms of few also has drift."

Not cheap, but neither are the Al arms.

Bill

We'll look for them at DEMA. I'm not sure what booth they'll be in, though. I didn't see UW Fotopartner in the list of booths when I last did a search on the DEMA site.

I think that they are made by BS Kinetics - who make the carbon fibre housings.

Alex

Thanks, Alex!

Horvarth and Partner

The German retailer H&P are regular exhibitors at DIVE 2009 and Stephan Horvarth was keen to show off his new strobe arms. Using a 1” ball system, with or without o-rings, H&P’s float arms are manufactured from 29mm OD carbon fibre tubes in a range of lengths (16, 20, 24, 28, 33 and 41 cms). What I can only describe as clones of the Ultralight Control Systems AC-CS two way clamps are also manufactured in Germany and seem to be well made and are offered by H&P at competitive prices to the American made original. A complete arm system comprising of 3 two-way clamps, a 20 cm and a 28 cm float arms and base adapter weighs 540 grams on the surface but in-water this weight drops to 50 grams. H&Ps carbon fibre float arm and Loc-Line hybrid offers another strobe positioning solution.

Horvarth and Partner

Beat me to it Tim

Beat me to it Tim

Cheers for correcting me guys.

Stew

Hi.

There are carbon strobe arms available for a long time. They are from a french company and you can buy it from internet (http://www.extrem-vision.com/Elements-de-bras).

I myself have and use 8 of them (2 of 20 cms, 2 of 16.5 cms and 4 of 12.5 cm).

I use ULCS clamps with it, and works fine.

As they are the producers, if you ask them, they can make the arm the size you want.

I had 2 of 30 cms but I found that they were to big, and replaced them. Those days I had 2 ikelite DS125 and I found that as the arms are quite light and long and the strobes were bulk and weavy, it was quite dificult to use the rig underwater, speacially when there were strong current, a lot of vibrations were transmited to the housing.

With the shorter arms. I have no problems. Quite happy with them!

Regards

Pedro Alves

PS - now I have 2 Inon Z240 and a Canon 40D in an Aquatica housing.