A while back a friend from the Digital Wedding Forum sent me a couple flash brackets that can be used to make a 2 flash setup. The brackets are Sonia Flash Brackets for Metz Flashes. But as it turns out they work great to attach your flashes to any lightstand adapter with a 1/4-20 thread. You then attach either a Stroboframe or Canon/Nikon plastic flash shoe to the slot of the bracket. Easy peazy. The catch is that I’ve only seen the brackets for sale in groups of 10, so you need to get some friends together to split the lot. Or you can give them out as cheap Christmas gifts as they only cost 7 bucks each. You can buy them HERE.
I have a small collection of cheap flashes that I have accumulated from Ebay and Craigslist for Strobist style off camera flash shooting. Even with two flashes sometimes I run out of power when I try to overpower the sun. So I realized the other day that I could rig up to four flashes at once on this Metz bracket. So I headed out with Corey the Intern to take a test shot. It works great, and the sound of four flashes recycling after a full power dump is oh so sexy!
The trickiest part is how to get all four of your flashes to trigger. My life was made easy because my old SB-26 Speedlights have an optical slave. So I just triggered one with a Pocket Wizard, and the other 3 went off from the light reflected off of the subject.
by stevez
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