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Booming a Elinchrom head

ocarlo

Member
While I'm at it....on environmental portrait

I also think about moving away from staging a rigid set - softbox on stands with sandbags setup - and going handheld with something lighter, like a Softlighter.

Can anyone recommend a good boom arm, and a thingie for securely mounting a Elinchrom RX head on it?
Preferrably something that can rest on a stand in-between takes?
And when not mobile, I could park it on a C-stand and still have some reach for stationary butterfly lighting...

I would always have an extra set of hands on set anyways, and it would probably free things up a bit...

thanks again....
 

mvirtue

New member
For your location work a painters pole with a Kacey Ind. adapter sounds like the ticket. Now, I think I can envision a combo to use it as an in studio boom, but it's not something I'd really recommend and it might do in a pinch.

Use a super clamp with a baby pin and an Avenger D200, or equivalent head.
Mount D200 on C-stand. connect super clamp to head with baby pin (snap in or collared). Close the jaws on the pole then find some way to put some counter balance weight on the pole. The Manfrotto clamp on weights might work.
 

Aztecaphoto

New member
Try the Avenger D600.
Strong, not to heavy, good price.
I bougth one in LA and I had to pay for a 2nd bag at the airline. It worth every buck.
I´m getting another 2 in may.
 

fotografz

Well-known member
Try the Avenger D600.
Strong, not to heavy, good price.
I bougth one in LA and I had to pay for a 2nd bag at the airline. It worth every buck.
I´m getting another 2 in may.
+1.

When it comes to boom set-ups, do not scrimp on the arm or the stand ... or you will just be buying the whole thing all over again.

-Marc
 

ocarlo

Member
or..hopefully...

that, out of sheer desperation, he threw a dart and ended up at getdpi,
and there it was - yet more gear talk, and nothing about Art or the luminous sanctity of Photography. Certainly no hints of Sontag or French chain-smoking deconstructionists anywhere...

amazing.
 
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