Product Description

The Camera Flip is a compact, lightweight bracket at a very affordable price. It is best for cameras without large add-on accessory motor drives. Comes complete with a machined, shoe-type flash mount.

Product Details

• Brand: Tiffen
• Model: 310-900
• Released on: 2006-03-21
• Dimensions: .50 pounds

Features

• Compact, lightweight flash bracket designed for cameras without add-on motor drives
• Low-profile Rotary-Link system lets you easily turn camera from horizontal to vertical
• Flash stays centered above lens at all times; comfortable, cushioned neoprene foam grip
• Machined, positive-locking shoe mount is interchangeable with optional flash mounts
• Nominal lens-to-flash distance of 12 inches; weighs 15.4 ounces; 5-year warranty

Amazon.com Product Description
The Stroboframe Camera Flip is a compact, lightweight flash bracket designed for cameras without large, add-on accessory motor drives. The affordable unit sports Stroboframe's low-profile Rotary-Link system, which lets you turn your camera from horizontal to vertical with a flick of the wrist while still keeping the flash centered above the lens. As a result, your photos will receive optimum light regardless of the camera's orientation. On the side sits a cushioned neoprene foam grip that's comfortable for both shooting and carrying. And thanks to the Camera Flip's compact chassis, the bracket stuffs conveniently in most camera bags, making it ideal for traveling. The Camera Flip--which offers a nominal lens-to-flash distance of 12 inches and comes with a machined, positive-locking shoe mount--is backed by a five-year warranty.

What's in the Box
Camera Flip, shoe mount, 1/4"-20 camera mounting knob, cork base pad.

Customer Reviews

Bring Your Pictures to a New Level
I bought a Strobo-Frame about ten years ago and I do not do flash photography without it. Yes, it is another piece of equipment to haul around, and it does require a synch cable to trigger the flash, but the monumental difference in the pictures makes this worth every bit of extra effort.

With the ability to keep the flash over the lens, whether the shot is vertical or horizontal, truly gives the pictures a much more professional look. The "blown-out" look from a flash being right in your subject's face is eliminated, as is the harsh light from a flash mounted on, or built-into, the camera. Red-eye is also eliminated as the flash, again, is not firing directly onto your subject.

It's a great accessory for any photographer looking to improve the quality of their photos.

Crude and Pricey, But Still Useful
Been wanting to get something like this for a long time, but always bucked at the cost. Finally bit the bullet and I will definitely find this useful for weddings, hoping to minimise ugly side shadows. Haven't found it necessary to flip the flash as well, so the fixed flash position is fine for me. In other words, prefer this to the Quick Flip.

It is, though, too expensive. I paid 66 GBP for this, but it's really a very unsophisticated piece of equipment, and 15 quid would be plenty. It consists of about 5 pieces of black-painted aluminium, a few nuts and bolts, and some cheap foam for the grip. Plus a stick-on cork base if you don't intend to purchase an anti-twist plate. Not terribly refined. Sturdy enough, but the nylon nuts intended for additional tightening of the rotating plate are useless and wouldn't tighten at all; just kept going round. Fixed problem by replacing with ordinary metal nuts; wingnuts would be better, avoiding the need to keep a spanner handy.

For my combo of Nikon D70, SB-800 and SC-29 cable, the supplied flash mount was of no use, and I had to obtain an ordinary Hama camera retaining screw to fix the base of the flash end of the SC-29 cable to the top of the bracket. Only a couple of dollars, but it's a shame they couldn't chuck this in for free.

Surprised also that there is virtually no means to adjust for different cameras. It's a universal appliance and, if you've not had a chance to try before you buy, you have to hope that your camera will line up ok for the portrait position. In horizontal position, assuming your lens sits directly over the tripod screw, no problem. But flipping to portrait position, it just so happens that everything lines up *ALMOST* central for the D70, but what about other cameras? There are extra holes in the frame for moving the flash from side to side, but that then screws up your horizontal camera position. Haven't really tested it yet, but I assume normal flash coverage allows for a greater tolerance than I am anticipating but, again, for this money I would expect the ability to adjust more accurately.

OK but wish I had gotten the 350
I purchased the camera flip bracket for use with my Nikon D50. It fit the camera well altough I never really got comfortable using it so I seldom did. The build is great and it still functions as new so I have not complaints with construction. I now have a Nikon D300 which is a larger camera and the bracket does not fit. I can force it but who wants to chance stripping the tripod socket on a $1,800 camera. I have since bought the model that rotates the flash instead of rotating the camera.