EL Octa

rab777 most camera stores carry these spigots although you may only find shorter ones for umbrella stands, you can screw two of them together to get a double ended spigot. or another alternative may be to get a short piece of round barstock, fit it in your strobe and drop it in the hole and tighten. i've never seen the spigot you ended up with, wierd.

mumbles wrote in post #10464651
Here are a couple of photos with the 74" octa, lights up a small grouping nicely. I say nicely because they had been dancing and sweaty, and it didn't show through too much.

Nice! Thanks for sharing! El Octa would have been perfect for exactly these kinds of group shots this Saturday. Now I really have to get it to work. Going to try to get a spare spigot from Calumet's tomorrow. Hope the size of these things are based on some ANSI or ISO standard otherwise I'm probably out of luck.

rab777 wrote in post #10465068
Nice! Thanks for sharing! El Octa would have been perfect for exactly these kinds of group shots this Saturday. Now I really have to get it to work. Going to try to get a spare spigot from Calumet's tomorrow. Hope the size of these things are based on some ANSI or ISO standard otherwise I'm probably out of luck.

Yep, they're all the same bar the mutant ones.

FJ LOVE wrote in post #10464731
rab777 most camera stores carry these spigots although you may only find shorter ones for umbrella stands, you can screw two of them together to get a double ended spigot. or another alternative may be to get a short piece of round barstock, fit it in your strobe and drop it in the hole and tighten. i've never seen the spigot you ended up with, wierd.

Thanks! I'm going to take the extension tube everywhere i can tomorrow and see if i can't find something that'll fit. I'll definitely keep screwing two short ones into a double barreled spigot in my arsenal of tricks tomorrow. ::

On the upside, maybe someone on e-bay will pay me a handsome sum for the misshapen one.

As I mentioned in the "Elinchrom - whatcha got?" thread, I did the Avenger D200 mod to the Eli Octa last night, and I'm really happy with it. Feels rock solid on my Avenger stand, and it just stays put when you tighten the knob - no slippage like I was seeing with the standard mount.

Yeah, i'm an Avenger evangalist. Truly. I just bought a couple of their: http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …Alu_Baby_Light_​Stand.html to keep some Aluminium ones around. We've been using the steel ones, but on occasion, the Alu ones would make more sense to carry around.

But to stay on topic, the D200 mod is very worthy. Used it just 2 hours ago in wind. Now if i could just find a way to tie down the ends of the box to keep it in position.