UPO Help needed - (Unidentified Photography Object)

[kit80]

Hi

Potential for me looking like an arse with this but hey ho, got this object, am almost certain it is something to do with photography....I am a n00b at photography so forgive me if its obvious. Also apologies if its nowt to do with photography and is some weird bondage item or something.






Any help?


Kit

ETA C+C not needed on the photo

Edited by kit80 on Sunday 17th May 19:47

[beano500]

Looks to me like a grip (and to hold a flashgun above a camera). The thread is probably the right sort (Whitworth bush) that screws in to the base of most camera plates.

[leightonjames]

Looks like a flash clamp to me? Possibly one of those things that keeps the camera off the top of the top of the camera, ive seen a lot of paparazzi with them but im not sure of the advantage?

Leighton

[nick_bbb]

leightonjames said:

Looks like a flash clamp to me? Possibly one of those things that keeps the camera off the top of the top of the camera, ive seen a lot of paparazzi with them but im not sure of the advantage?

Leighton

Less chance of red eye if the flash is further away from the lens.

[Pete Baraka]

nick_bbb said:

leightonjames said:

Looks like a flash clamp to me? Possibly one of those things that keeps the camera off the top of the top of the camera, ive seen a lot of paparazzi with them but im not sure of the advantage?

Leighton

Less chance of red eye if the flash is further away from the lens.

Hi Kit,

What Nick said, plus if the camera is in portrait orientation the flash can be repositioned above the camera (like the sun, usually) instead of over to one side.

Pete

[kit80]

OK cool thanks, makes sense I think, the straps don't seem to though. I don't have serpate flash at the moment but trying to build my kit up. Worth keeping then?

[CivicMan]

I had one just like that 20 years ago to hold my Vivitar 283 over my Canon A1 - happy days!