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<blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 813052" data-attributes="member: 50197">Those look interesting, but I'm sure they are going to provide rather harsh light without diffusion. Not sure how you would go about getting decent diffusion, unless you were in a studio situation.I've been very happy with my flash for macro, but would like to be able to easily change the position of the flash from on top of the camera. Sometimes leaves and branches get in the way of the light, and sometimes I would just like the light more from the side. Heck, with something like this I could use a main flash on the camera and a fill flash to one side. I can do that now using a small tripod for the fill flash, but that is rather cumbersome in the field, and lots of subjects won't wait around for me to mess around with equipment for long. I've even thought about a Small Rig cage that would allow me to move the flash to the right hand top corner of the camera, but doubt that would give me much difference than what I have now. I'm sure I could get some cold shoe mounts that would attach to various connection points around the cage, but it wouldn't give me the freedom the rig above would give. The Small Rig would definitely be more durable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clovishound, post: 813052, member: 50197"] Those look interesting, but I'm sure they are going to provide rather harsh light without diffusion. Not sure how you would go about getting decent diffusion, unless you were in a studio situation. I've been very happy with my flash for macro, but would like to be able to easily change the position of the flash from on top of the camera. Sometimes leaves and branches get in the way of the light, and sometimes I would just like the light more from the side. Heck, with something like this I could use a main flash on the camera and a fill flash to one side. I can do that now using a small tripod for the fill flash, but that is rather cumbersome in the field, and lots of subjects won't wait around for me to mess around with equipment for long. I've even thought about a Small Rig cage that would allow me to move the flash to the right hand top corner of the camera, but doubt that would give me much difference than what I have now. I'm sure I could get some cold shoe mounts that would attach to various connection points around the cage, but it wouldn't give me the freedom the rig above would give. The Small Rig would definitely be more durable. [/QUOTE]

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