Toronto Photography Meetup Group

Thanks to Daryll for organizing.

Thanks to all for the great company.

Thanks to Mother Nature for all the beautiful Lepidopteras.

Update on the Manfrotto Macro Flash Bracket:

Jordan, Ben and I saw a guy with two SB800's mounted on a flash bracket. He showed me his results, and he said the bracket costs about $60.

I did a search on B&H and found the bracket. With shipping and duties, the total cost is about $76.

Here is the link:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/cart.jsp

Pretty handy if you already have two flashes and don't have $800 to burn on a dedicated macro flash.

Hi Shelley
The link takes me to a monopod.

For those who are interested in macro set ups, here is a great link.
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/780820

Nigil

Shelley - Vistek sells the same bracket for $76 (plus tax) - although do not know if carry it in store. So that is also an option.

LOL ... what music is that???

Great Link Nigil. Thanks.

Funny that the link takes you to a monopod. The full name and number is:

Manfrotto 330B Macro Flash Bracket

Maybe it is subconscious as you know Jordan is looking for a monopod as well. The link seems to go to an empty cart now. Here is a link to the page with the Manfrotto bracket and others at B&H.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Nt ... Search=yes

And the Manfrotto bracket at Vistek.
http://www.vistek.ca/search/Manfrotto%2 ... acket.aspx

DG

Also, folks may find this article from Naturescapes interesting as well.

http://www.naturescapes.net/Joomla1.5/i ... servranckx

DG

Holy cow. Look at some of those rigs. Give a man some duct tape and scrap aluminum and they turn into MacGyver. LOL

DG

My thanks to Daryl, Jordan, Shelley and the rest. I had a great time -- it's always a pleasure shooting with the big macro lens even though I should have dialed in a little more depth of field. Focusing manually doesn't help me either. I probably should have switched to back-button focus.

Next time I may bring a flash and maybe one of those funky rigs, or an upgraded body that might be less jittery on autofocus.

I purchased the Macro flash bracket support from Henry's Downtown. It is currently $10 less than Vistek.

Sweet Shelley - definitely like to get myself one of those - but I have my priorities first - new tripod head (bought today - got Vistsek to match the price from thecamerastore.com) and now saving up for new tripod (I just realized my current one is more beat up then I thought - not good!)