Hi there Tim …

I don’t use a flash bracket anymore. This is mainly because Canon doesn’t offer something like Nikon’s SC-29 cable which keeps the infra-red beam directed forward. So using a flash bracket with the Canon’s off-camera cord caused the mk2 and mk2N bodies to hesitate in focusing in low light.

But I don’t really need a flash bracket, since very little of my flash photography is with direct flash, or with a diffuser.

When I use a Pocket Wizard, I have it velcro’d to the top of the speedlight, and keep it in place with an elastic hair band.

Neil.

Are you using a flash bracket at all or just the flash directly on the hotshoe of the camera?

Reason I ask: Assuming you are bouncing anyway so that would eliminate the bracket part, but where are you holding the pocket wizard?

thanks,

Tim

Alan .. I would agree with that. The recycle time of the Canon CP-E3 and CP-E4 (or the Nikon SD-8A) is such that it just doesn’t recycle that fast to generate that kind of heat.

It happens because of the Quantum battery packs, and my insistence on shooting faster than I should. And it is exactly as you have it there – for me it is simply the cost of doing business as a professional photographer.

I would rather not have the expense .. but I simply can not afford to embarressedly shrug my shoulders helplessly in front of a client and tell them I didn’t want to get the photos they paid me to get … just because I was timid about my equipment.

Neil vN

Of course you already know this and simply consider it a cost of doing business/getting the shot.

Dan … that’s my thinking too. The damaged fresnel doesn’t change anything for me in the results I get. And replacing it doesn’t do much for me personally in having a ‘fixed’ speedlight.

In the end the results I get are what is important, not the actual piece of equipment. As I said .. it isn’t of much use to fall in love with a piece of equipment.

Neil vN