Digital Rebel Battery Grip

[Mr.B]

Can the digital rebel with the battery grip be mounted on a tripod or monopod? If not, what could make this possible?

Thanks.

[theoldmoose]

Yep. I keep a quick-release plate on it all the time.

What you have to watch for though, is it tends to mess up your use of something like the Stroboframe. You need to get a frame that is tall enough to accomodate the combined height of the camera and grip.

Also, having the grip on the camera throws off the geometry for some of the Stroboframe types. In other words, when you twist the camera sideways, the flash is no longer centered over the lens, and you still end up with an ugly, off-center shadow on the wall behind your subject.

Considering the reason you have the grip on there in the first place is so you can more comfortably take vertical format shots (among other things), this is kind of annoying.

It stopped me from investing in a Stroboframe, until I can determine if there is a better solution for those of us that like to leave the grip on all the time.

[Mr.B]

Thanks for the quick reply!

I'm off to buy the grip then. Thanks.

[robertwgross]

Also, having the grip on the camera throws off the geometry for some of the Stroboframe types. In other words, when you twist the camera sideways, the flash is no longer centered over the lens, and you still end up with an ugly, off-center shadow on the wall behind your subject.


I have a different brand of bracket, and there is an adjustment to allow the camera body to slide right or left on the bracket, and there is a similar adjustment for the flash unit, so I ought to be able to put the light just about wherever I want. Unfortunately, on mine, there is insufficient room to have a grip mounted on the camera and still fit into the bracket correctly.

---Bob Gross---

[theoldmoose]

Thanks, Bob. I was hoping that there were other, more useful brackets out there, but it sounds like yours still suffers from the 'can't use grip' syndrome. :cry:

There is a version of the Stroboframe that flips the flash, rather than the camera, and you can position the bracket pretty well for vertical, but the sillly bracket swings the flash under the unit in vertical mode, which is pretty useless for a flash in bounce or semi-bounce position.

That is, unless you want a really bright reflection off of the floor. :wink:

[robertwgross]

Thanks, Bob. I was hoping that there were other, more useful brackets out there, but it sounds like yours still suffers from the 'can't use grip' syndrome.


That doesn't bother me, since I don't own a grip, nor would I want one.


There is a version of the Stroboframe that flips the flash, rather than the camera, and you can position the bracket pretty well for vertical, but the sillly bracket swings the flash under the unit in vertical mode, which is pretty useless for a flash in bounce or semi-bounce position.


Yes, that one sounds awkward. Are you sure that you aren't looking at it backwards? I was handed an awkward flash bracket one time, and I called it to the attention of the sales clerk that it seemed pretty awkward. The silly clerk said that it was set up for a left-handed shooter (left index finger on the shutter). For the life of me, I can't figure out what he was talking about, since I have never seen a shutter button on the wrong side of a camera.

---Bob Gross---

[theoldmoose]

We tried mounting it both directions on the camera. With it mounted so that the flash would swing to the right side (making it 'up' if you rotate the camera counter clockwise, when viewed from ther rear), the flash bracket was so close to the right hand grip of the camera as to make it impossible to get your hand in between the camera and bracket, so you could operate the shutter with your right index finger.

So, the only way we could figure how to mount it on the 300D, was on the left side, which meant that when you rotated the flash, it ended up on the left side of the camera, which would be 'down' if you rotate it counter clockwise (when viewed from the rear) to get a portrait orientation shot.

I was glad I checked this out in the store, rather than blindly ordering such a contraption online. It really wasn't very useful.

The other bracket, has a levered platform that lets you rotate the camera, rather than the flash. If the camera has no grip on it, it works perfectly. With the grip, it works fine in landscape mode, but when you rotated the camera counterclockwise (when viewed from the rear), the thickness of the grip 'pushed' the camera to the left, so that it was no longer lined up under the flash.

The whole point of the exercise was to get the flash aligned over the lens when in portrait mode, and this didn't cut it, so I left that one at the counter, too.

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