Kirk Photo L-bracket

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I spoke with someone at Kirk photo today who told me that they have a custom L-bracket for the Pentax 67. This means that we can set our cameras in the vertical orientation without forcing the ball head to hold ungodly amounts of mass. Apparently the bracket extends from the bottom and up along the left edge of the 67 body. I worry about interference with the wooden hand grip and changing film (I can't imagine how the bracket would avoid covering the pin pull on the bottom of the body). Does anyone have one of these brackets? If so, maybe you could tell us if there are issues.

-- Deron (dchang@choate.edu), February 06, 2001

Answers

Haven't used or seen it, but would recommend it without hesitation. I built my own L bracket out of Aluminum and some Oatley's epoxy putty. Works great. You don't really need a wooden hand grip if you are doing tripod work, and even if it blocked the film door, it's not like the Pentax was ever easy to load film into. Basically I think the positives outweigh the negatives

Peace, Rolland

-- rolland (relliott@nasheng.com), February 09, 2001.


I just dropped Kirk Photo a note asking them to add a picture of the custom bracket to their web catalog. We'll see if they do.

-- Bill Baker (wab@well.com), March 14, 2001.

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