a cheap way to set a canon 430exii on Elinchrom 27.5" Rotalux Deep Octa

so, just that... i need a cheap way to set a speedlight on my Elinchrom 27.5" Rotalux Deep Octa.........i got this Elinchrom 27.5" Rotalux Deep Octa but in my country there is nothing about elinchrom.....

thanks

please! anyone?

Part of being a photographer is being a problem solver.

Rig it up......

You might PM a member here, but the name of "tetrode". He's posted photos before of a speedlight bracket with an Elinchrom ring on the front.

I wonder if you get the same light quality using a speedlight as you would a strobe.

Kacey adapter or a cheap eBay version

not too sure how stable this would be

http://www.prophotogra​phygear.com …r-to-elinchrom-p-488.html

hawk911 wrote in post #16131419
I wonder if you get the same light quality using a speedlight as you would a strobe.

Highly unlikely as the former has a focussed beam contained within it's own reflector while the latter has a bare-bulb. If you want portability plus light quality, take a look at the CheetahLight CL180/360 range (there are cheaper makes and more expensive too - this is the product which is attracting all the attention world-wide at present).

billybookcase wrote in post #16131610
not too sure how stable this would be

http://www.prophotogra​phygear.com …r-to-elinchrom-p-488.html

SOME, but not all, of these are fairly stable. The main weakness, stability-wise, seems to be the cheap and dreadful ball head they insist on using. I have a similar bracket with just a front/back tilt and it's pretty stable.

The basic problem in concept of these items is that the upright of the bracket prevents the flash going deep enough into the throat of the add-on modifier for optimum positioning. If you look for one with a horizontal flash-unit orientation rather than vertical, you have a good deal more versatility. Something along THESE lines but not this particular one as that's for Bowens not Elinchrom. Good luck finding one!

EDIT: See also this post made in another thread concurrently with mine here.