What flash bracket do you use

Looking to get a flash bracket to use with a EOS 1D MkII and 550EX. Anyone get a recomidation?

Check out the Wimberley F-1. wicked rig.

They call it F-1 because it costs about the same as a F-1 race car.

usually, I use the shoe, bounce flash, and the Lumiquest 80/20 bounce thing. Its been a good combination so far. I do have a Manfrotto bracket of some sort that telescopes, angles, and other sorted things. If I can't bounce, I will use it to get the flash up higher away from the lens.

I recently got the Manfrotto 233B and then put a mini head ball on it. It is pretty cool.

Sheldon, that's the one I have. Its very adjustable.

Another Manfrotto 233b here also.

Yep - there it is:

Tom W wrote:
Yep - there it is:

Can you get the flash over the lens - DIRECTLY over the lens - in both horizontal and vertical shooting positions?

If you can't. then that bracket is going to be useless. 99% of the reason that I use a bracket is to remove side shadow from behind the subject, and the only way that can be done is if the shadow falls behind the subject, and not to one side.

Flash side shadow is unaccepable in a professional image and I would expect to be screamed at in any newsroom in the country if I turned one in!

Perhaps that bracket does allow the flash to be positioned over the lens but I don't see that in the photograph.

Yes, Dave, you can. Its easy in horizontal, but a bit more annoying in vertical since its not a swing bracket.

It pivots at the bottom of the upright shaft so that you can align it right over the lens. At the top is a small ball head so that you can level your flash.

Personally, I prefer to mount the flash on the shoe and use the lumiquest for ordinary flash people shots, if there is no ceiling bounce available. The bracket has found more use for setting up awkward lighting angles for macro-type shooting.

True, it is expensive, but it is very adaptable to almost any situation. Bonus is that it comes apart and stows away in a side pocket of your camera bag. I'll set it up and take a picture of it.

Thank you, sir. I'd like to see it.

I've heard some people complain about the stroboframe camera flip, but if the nuts are all adjusted right, it seems to do the trick for me and cost around seventy bucks. The flash is right over the lens in both positions.

Here is the Wimberley F-1 Tele Flash Bracket on the new tripod.
The way this bracket mounts is on the from of the lens plate. There is also and adaptor to mount the bracket on the camera body. Picture of that to follow.

I haven't used one, but these Really Right Stuff brackets look nice. Does anyone have any experience with these?