Phase One, Mamiya and Profoto Announce First Vertical Grip With Built-in Flash Techno

[vieri]

I was waiting for the grip since I bought into the Phase system - now it's (almost) here, and offers much more than I expected: beside the grip itself for portrait shooting, and the expected capability to use Phase batteries to power the camera, the unexpected Profoto wireless control together with the unexpected L bracket will both be great plusses for me (even if - as all things in MF land - it comes at a price...). Now - when will delivery start?

 

[Dan Santoso]

Does the grip wireless control work fine with other strobe makers such as broncolor, hensel, bowens, etc to give you 1/1600 with no exposure loss whatsoever with the use of Profoto Air Transceiver?

Well for $1200 it better be!!

Thanks

 

[yaya]

Yes, as long as your packs support it and if your back is a recent Aptus-II, DM, p40+ or P65+

Yair

 

[kdphotography]

Well I bought the 80 LS today so not feeling like a lost child anymore. Have to keep the train running. LOL

BTW hope to have this and any other announced items at our October workshop for folks to try.

Don't forget: Photos of the DF with the grip, on the Cube, and impressions. (You might as well get the Cube too Guy, while you're at it....)

 

[Bob]

Don't forget: Photos of the DF with the grip, on the Cube, and impressions. (You might as well get the Cube too Guy, while you're at it....)

For some unknown reason he refuses to be assimilated.
Guy, resistance is futile....
-bob

 

[symbolphoto]

Well just a heads up, i use the Elinchrom Speeds on the Hasselblad at 1/800th, (no 1/1600th ) no problem. I know you want to know about 1600th, but just to reaffirm it works fine with 800th.

 

[Don Libby]

Don't forget: Photos of the DF with the grip, on the Cube, and impressions. (You might as well get the Cube too Guy, while you're at it....)

For some unknown reason he refuses to be assimilated.
Guy, resistance is futile....
-bob

Guy - I wanted to make certain you knew we haven't been speaking about this Cube ... :ROTFL::ROTFL:

(Arca Cube not Honda Cube)

 

[Tim Ernst]

Dumb question here - why are they calling this an "L" bracket? You still have to purchase and attach a camera plate in order to mount the camera in landscape, correct, or am I missing something?

 

[Bob]

Don't forget: Photos of the DF with the grip, on the Cube, and impressions. (You might as well get the Cube too Guy, while you're at it....)

Dumb question here - why are they calling this an "L" bracket? You still have to purchase and attach a camera plate in order to mount the camera in landscape, correct, or am I missing something?

Perhaps it might best be called a "P" bracket?
-bob

 

[Guy Mancuso]

For some unknown reason he refuses to be assimilated.
Guy, resistance is futile....
-bob

Someone has to be the outcast. :ROTFL::ROTFL::ROTFL:

waiting for Photokinia and see what is out there. I actually use a Arca P1 which i really like except it will not rotate down 90 degrees which bugs me sometimes.

Don I need that car first. LOL

 

[Bob]

Someone has to be the outcast. :ROTFL::ROTFL::ROTFL:

waiting for Photokinia and see what is out there. I actually use a Arca P1 which i really like except it will not rotate down 90 degrees which bugs me sometimes.

Don I need that car first. LOL

See if John can mill out a slot for it.
-bob

 

[Guy Mancuso]

Looks like we may need a very small plate in the grip. The issue i see is when it is in your hand than you will have the plate in the palm of your hand . That would be uncomfortable but this looks to come off really fast too and just drop in the battery pack like normal if your shooting handheld.

I know for me when I am doing that runway gig two or three times a year in vertical mode on a monopod my hands get so sore from coming over the top and with my arthritis it is a nightmare. This would be awesome for me

 

[Guy Mancuso]

See if John can mill out a slot for it.
-bob

That my friend is a great idea.

 

[Bob]

With a camera with vertical grip, if you shoot both ways, often the hand strap is just never where you want it.
-bob

 

[Guy Mancuso]

I do use a hand strap all the time too. Actually mine is from Hassy

 

[Bob]

Would probably end up with two of them one for vert and one for horiz.
I use the Hassy strap too.
I wonder how that would work?
-bob

 

[Guy Mancuso]

Like the double cube trick. LOL

 

[nkbitsch]

Also not clear if the bottom tripod mount has the same two anchor hole points as the DF camera body's bottom mount. One of the dealer-info images shows it without those anchor holes but I'm hoping that's just a mockup image and the actual shipping product will have the traditional Mamiya anti-slip holes so we can all use our existing quick release plates.

Here is the answer:

This is an image of the production unit.

photo gear

 

[Guy Mancuso]

Thanks looks like we just have to come up with a small RRS or Kirk plate. The part that bugs me is if you have your hand in the grip you will have to negotiate the plate with your hand. Now going back up to the images posted it looks like the plate itself has a release on the L bracket. The second image on either side of the screw down knob it looks like two release buttons to take the L bracket on and off. As you can see in image 1 and 3 it is off and than on in 3 so there must be a release. This is pretty interesting

 

[Guy Mancuso]

another image CI had on there site. Looks pretty dang sexy too me. Might just have to put my order in