I saw a review on this eBay flash bracket, figured it would made a interesting project and gain some experience with brackets. So I ordered one, $45 shipped from Hong Kong.
This is supposed to be a "re-engineered" sample of the Stroboframe camera flip bracket, but I think they might have over done a bit 
. They did claimed that it will work on cameras with battery grips. I changed out the nylon nuts already in this shot of factory bracket.
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They have a different picture of the bracket on their eBay site, the one with a "straight" flash arm instead of the flash flip arm. But I already knew that from the review. The first mod I did was to split it up in two: I made a aluminum plate for the flash flip arm; Used a flat steel stock for camera flip arm, and added a stand/hand grip.
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One thing I noticed with the camera flip part was that there is no way to seat the camera down, because the setup won't stand upright. So I added the mini stand on front of the bracket. It also works nicely as a palm rest for adjusting the zoom lens. For my 20D, there are just too many flex points to use the camera flip and the grip, I didn't even try to made a wider flash arm to accommodate grip.
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For the flash flip part, it's less comfortable to use than the camera flip. I don't see I would use it often if at all. But it's more compact and maybe would fit in the camera bag, that's why I made the camera plate for it as in pic #2. The biggest complaint of the flash flip is the way the shutter button is forced to the bottom in vertical posistion. I tried to correct that by making another plate, and switch the flip arm to the right side of the camera. As you can see in the picture below, I can use my right hand over the top or stick middle finger through that hole and use the shutter on the grip. ( the tap at top left is bent into the strap holder area for anti twisting function)
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They are at horizontal position. The hot shoe adapter on top of the film camera is from londuck of flashzebra.com.
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And off course a mod is not done for me without adding some tupperware
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Thanks for looking.
