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Thank-you Terry. LMK how flush the L-Plate is to the front and rear of the camera.I have one from RRS. I honestly haven't used it yet as it arrived right in the middle of my move from one apartment to another and I got a bit busy. My GF1 was used as the model for the RRS plate. I will be back in SF on Tuesday night. Can probably post pics on Wednesday.
I like RRS products too, it's just that these plates become obsolete so quickly and the Kirk L Plate is $25 cheaper.I have always preferred the RRS plates over the Kirk plates. There seems to be more thought in the design of the RRS plates, IMHO.
Hi Terry,Warning - There is a problem with the RRS bracket and the cable release in the portrait position. The door when open sticks out a little too far. If you have a shallow clamp you can destroy the door. I am going to send them an email.
Word directly from Kirk to me via e-mail is that when using their L-plate with the GF1, use of the cable release is not possible - presumably because the door won't open far enough OR there isn't enough room for the cable to exit between the bracket and the body. They made no mention of the use of a spacer.
For myself, for now anyway - I'm going to use my modified G9 base plate to connect to the ball head and drop the ball into the side slot for verticals... we'll see how it goes. (I like to do a lot of HDRs, so using the cable is important.)
The part is from Acratech:Thanks, Diane... I'll look around for that.
What were Kirk and RRS thinking? Why else would we be using a remote release, but because we are on a tripod with low shutter speed and need it right when we need the l-bracket.Word directly from Kirk to me via e-mail is that when using their L-plate with the GF1, use of the cable release is not possible - presumably because the door won't open far enough OR there isn't enough room for the cable to exit between the bracket and the body. They made no mention of the use of a spacer.
For myself, for now anyway - I'm going to use my modified G9 base plate to connect to the ball head and drop the ball into the side slot for verticals... we'll see how it goes. (I like to do a lot of HDRs, so using the cable is important.)
CPW... amen, my friend. It makes no sense. It looks like a clear case of poor analysis of needs during the design process. If you're going to go to the effort to design and manufacture a specialized product such as this - and charge the serious money they do - you would think they would have given just a tiny bit more consideration to operational needs. As you say, if use of a tripod is needed, then use of a cable release is an obvious given. It would take such a small amount of design change for these products to be perfectly suited to using a cable release. Dang shame. And really surprising.What were Kirk and RRS thinking? Why else would we be using a remote release, but because we are on a tripod with low shutter speed and need it right when we need the l-bracket.
I checked my RRS L-bracket that I got last week, and sure enough, you would damage the door and then push really hard on the remote release plug if you tried to tighten the clamp. The thickness they need to add is about 2 mm. Not sure why that was so much that they needed to leave it off.
Unusually bad design on their part. Mine will be going back for full refund.