Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)This thing has a lot going for it. The cold shoe is a nice design where there's a gap at the bottom and it has a spring-loaded screw. I'd say it's pretty much the bar for what a cold shoe should be. The middle adjustment knob is spring loaded. The male stud is reversable and has both thread sizes. Plus, it's a solid hunk of metal so it will probably survive a war.
What's wrong?
The hole for the umbrella shaft isn't at an angle. It's just straight out. This means that your flash has to dump into the top half of the umbrella leaving the bottom unlit. Heck, unless you can figure out how to angle the flash head down a fair bit, you'll might even get some undiffused spill. This means that it's pretty useless for its main purpose in life which is to hold an umbrella at such an angle that the flash hits more or less the center of it. Not all flashes can angle down. Even those that can, can't angle all that much.
With most other umbrella adapters, you have to make sure you stick the shaft in the correct side. With this one, both sides are the wrong side.
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This bracket is designed to hold any shoe-mount flash unit and allow you to use it with an umbrella. It will fit on nearly any light stand with its 5/8 female mount and a reversible, 3/8 and 1/4-20 threaded, female mount insert. The bracket s swivel joint allows you to tilt the head and umbrella up to 180deg..
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