Elinchrom's cursed 7mm umbrella mount SOLVED!

Moab Man

Senior Member
If you have Elinchrom strobes they have this ridiculous brand specific 7mm umbrella shaft mount. Standard is 8mm and there is no step-down adapter made. I was just short of starting to hack my umbrella shafts and modify them when I looked online one more time and stumbled upon this video. Apparently, and I can't say all Elinchrom heads, the heads have a secondary umbrella shaft mount. Here is the YouTube video that I found out about it.

https://youtu.be/-G0uEoTZC4k

My Elinchrom lights have been almost perfect with the exception of the umbrella 7mm issue. Now they have reached perfection with this new knowledge.
 
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