Enlight has finally gotten around to making a mounting bracket for its neat-o Orbis ring flash adapter. The Orbis is one of several plastic circles designed to redirect the light from the strobe you already own and give it that distinctive, flat and shadowless light characteristic of specialist purpose built ring units.
One of these, the Ray Flash, clamps on to your strobe while it sits up in the hotshoe. Neat, but also wobbly and huge. The Orbis was always a neater solution but you had to hand-hold, which is of course rather awkward.
Now, though, Enlight will sell you an aluminum bracket which screws into the tripod socket of the camera and secures the Orbis adapter. The Orbis sits under the camera, and usually you slide the flash into a the sleeve and hold it all so the donut of light surrounds the lens. As you would imagine, this makes zooming and manual focus almost impossible, unless you are some three-handed freak. The adapter bracket joins the flash to the camera and gives you a hand back, and is adjustable to fit most camera/flash combinations.
We’d argue that this should already be in the box, but instead it will cost you an extra $60. Available November.
Product page [Orbis. Thanks, Naomi!]
See Also:
- Roundup: Ring Flashes
- How To: DIY Ring Flash Made From a Styrofoam Cup
- Ray Flash Ring Flash Adapter
- Raid the Kitchen to Build a DIY Ring Flash
- Lomo Ring Flash: Cheap and Fun
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