Making the Apollo Orb tiltable

Here is a blog post I just completed describing how I put together a few items to make an Apollo from Westcott, in this case the Orb, useful by making it tilt on a light stand.

http://dmwfotos.wordpr​ess.com

You'll notice that my first approach was to use a grip arm. This is still a great approach if you also want to boom the Apollow away from the light stand.

The PCB Baby Boomer is the perfect solution if you want the Apollo to tilt on a light stand and also want a small kit that's easy to pack up and transport.

Great write up David.

That dual flash bracket is pretty basic, but looks to do a great job.

I recently pickup an Orb knockoff on eBay and am now exploring my tilt options. I like the PCB Baby Boomer, but shipping to Canada is more than the boom itself! Pretty well kills the deal.

I currently have the Manfrotto 5001B nano stand and am considering adding these to it to allow me to tilt & offer a boom option as needed:

Clamp: http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …4_124_Clamp_for​_3085.html
Boom arm: http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …2_2942_Mini_Boo​m_Arm.html

or one of these two combos:
http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …7_2_Section_Boo​m_Arm.html
http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …_3045_Mini_Boom​_Arm_.html

Any thoughts on these setups? Will the "Orb" and speedlight be too heavy for the arm/stand?

Nano stand is pretty light weight for booming anything.
I would get this grip arm. They also have a 20 in that would work but the 40 inch offers some booming capabilities.

Also, this light stand. The 13 ft would be even better.

I have several of the Calumet version of the nano stand and just can't imagine them holding an orb on a grip arm.

The bracket is basic, but better than anything else I've seen for ease of use and storage. And its less expensive by a long shot.

One option rather than the baby boomer is this and this, More expensive but ends up providing about the same offset that the baby boomer does.

dmward wrote in post #14120688
Here is a blog post I just completed describing how I put together a few items to make an Apollo from Westcott, in this case the Orb, useful by making it tilt on a light stand.

http://dmwfotos.wordpr​ess.com

You'll notice that my first approach was to use a grip arm. This is still a great approach if you also want to boom the Apollow away from the light stand.

The PCB Baby Boomer is the perfect solution if you want the Apollo to tilt on a light stand and also want a small kit that's easy to pack up and transport.

Btw, if you stick more then one flash inside a modifier, a simple optical slave (10$?) will trigger it just fine without batteries.