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Mim
 

Anti-twist plate for CB Junior flash bracket


Help! I am amazed that the CB Junior has no instructions! And Canon isn't any better. I bought the CB Junior flash bracket and managed, with some help, to get it all connected with the Off-Camera Shoe Cord and the camera. When I purchased this equipment, I also followed the suggestion to buy the optional Canon-Nikon Anti-twist plate for the CB Junior. But, I can't figure out where it goes, what it's for! I'm going to return it unless I can figure this out. Anyone out there in cyberland know?

Thanks!


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October 03, 2005

 

robert G. Fately
  Let me try to help, Mim - I happen to have the same bracket (and like it a lot).

The flash mounts on an adapter (the cord that then attaches to the top of your camera) that in turn is attached to the top bar of the bracket, right? I have the Nikon stuff, but I assume that the special Canon cord has a cube-like piece at the end where you attach the flash, and the bottom of that cube has a thread for a standard 1/4x8 thread tripod-like mount.

So, one attaches the cube to the bracket using that thread, placing a screw through the bottom of the bracket (in one of the 6 holes drilled there).

Here's the thing - the weight of the flash and your desire not to tighten things too hard lead to the flash unit twisting out of position. That is, the flash starts to point left or right rather than straight ahead.

So the anti-twist thingie is a simple piece of metal that fits between the bracket and the flash adapter/cube thing. One side of the anti-twist unit has a machined groove - this fits exactly over the top bracket bar. The other side has a raised edge - this is where you align the flash cord adapter - push it flush against that edge - so now the assemby cannot twist out of position.

I hope that helps


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October 06, 2005

 

Mim
  Thanks for the reply. So the only way I could get your suggestion to work was to remove the piece that came with the bracket; the piece that the cube would ordinarily be screwed onto. Which, by the way, didn't seem to be a problem. I didn't notice any twisting going on. Oh well. I'll try your method and see how it works. Thanks again.


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October 10, 2005

 
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