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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 366620" data-attributes="member: 12827">This is my &quot;backyard engineered&quot; bracket I will take with me to AZ to use for fill flash when shooting wildlife. The Sunpak's alone are very powerful flashes (out to 70' in auto or manual) but with two of them I can add a whole stop to that. I will be getting a couple of &quot;Better Beamers&quot; to go in front of them to add even more light. I should have no problem going well past 100' with this rig with a -1.5 f/ fill. Both strobes are triggered wirelessly from a transmitter in the hot shoe. The construction is simple, a piece of 1&quot;x1/8&quot; steel bar stock, drill and tapped to 1/4&quot; x 20 threads. The bottoms of the Sunpaks are also threaded threaded so I just used the screws they use to attach the camera to the bracket. I attach the camera to the bracket with my spare Bogen tripod camera mount. Minus any lens, this beast weights 9.5 pounds. Throw on the 14 pound 600mm f/4 AIS and you are now just shy of 25 pounds, which is why this will be tripod mounted (on the lens) for all shoots. <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/stm58/media/thebeast.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/stm58/thebeast.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 366620, member: 12827"] This is my "backyard engineered" bracket I will take with me to AZ to use for fill flash when shooting wildlife. The Sunpak's alone are very powerful flashes (out to 70' in auto or manual) but with two of them I can add a whole stop to that. I will be getting a couple of "Better Beamers" to go in front of them to add even more light. I should have no problem going [I]well past[/I] 100' with this rig with a -1.5 f/ fill. Both strobes are triggered wirelessly from a transmitter in the hot shoe. The construction is simple, a piece of 1"x1/8" steel bar stock, drill and tapped to 1/4" x 20 threads. The bottoms of the Sunpaks are also threaded threaded so I just used the screws they use to attach the camera to the bracket. I attach the camera to the bracket with my spare Bogen tripod camera mount. Minus any lens, this beast weights 9.5 pounds. Throw on the 14 pound 600mm f/4 AIS and you are now just shy of 25 pounds, which is why this will be tripod mounted (on the lens) for all shoots. [URL="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/stm58/media/thebeast.jpg.html"][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/stm58/thebeast.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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