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Reddit mentions of Manfrotto 330B Macro Bracket Flash Support for 2 Shoe Mount Flash Heads-Black
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We found 3 Reddit mentions of Manfrotto 330B Macro Bracket Flash Support for 2 Shoe Mount Flash Heads-Black. Here are the top ones.
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- Allows two flash heads to be mounted with the camera on a tripod.
- Perfect for macro work
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Specs:
| Color | Black |
| Height | 3.15 Inches |
| Length | 12.6 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Width | 3.15 Inches |
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Canon 270 EXII flash
Pixel Componor system
Manfrotto 330B bracket
Do you already have strobes? If so something like this works pretty well. Your tripod will need a very strong head as the weight (and leveraged weight) starts to get large.
I used this, with a pair of off camera strobes (and radio triggers), that I had for other uses. Of course I was not shooting as close as you will be, so your mileage may vary.
Yeah, an umbrella is going to be too big to hand hold. If you are shooting insects in the wild my experience is there is a trade off between a big enough diffuser to get good looking light (bigger is better) and something that will be so big you will scare insects, or not be able to precisely control it and accidentally bump the bush or whatever you are next to.
I have these two.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0017U0WM8
http://www.amazon.com/Fotodiox-Speedlight-Speedlite-600EX-RT-Panasonica/dp/B003Y322RO
They strap directly to the flash head, so you don't need anything else to attach them. It's not like an umbrella where you need a bracket to hold the umbrella to the flash.
No hood for macro like this. You will be so close to the subject that the hood would actually block light from the flash in some cases.
You may want to start with a flash bracket though. I use a [manfrotto 330B)[http://www.amazon.com/Manfrotto-330B-Bracket-Support-Heads-Black/dp/B001D2CW2I]. It will hold two flash heads but I just use one. The key thing is you need a bracket that lets you position the flash at an angle above the focal point of the lens.
Which reminds me, keep in mind you will probably shoot in manual focus mode. You turn the focus ring to the 1:1 (max) magnification and then move the camera by hand until your subject is in focus. And no matter how you focus, it takes steady hands to keep the very thin focal plane on your subject.
I don't know what your budget is, but if you want the L it's supposed to be nice. I don't know that the IS helps much given that you will be shooting with a flash (that should freeze any hand-shake motion in my opinion). If you might shoot with natural light then the IS would be critical, but I'm not sure how possible it would even be. Flash makes such a HUGE difference for sharpness of the image.
You may want to just get the non-L and if you fall in love with macro you can sell it and buy the L later. Or you may do like me and move toward the extreme 4:1 or 10:1 magnification stuff where the EF lens is useless anyway.