Reply To: Help needed to balance housing and strobes

[Nicolas]

Hi @veronac ,

Thanks for the pic, I wanted to see how your floats were laid out.

To try and avoid adding weights, one thing that might work is to use those 2 extra floaty arms (Inon by the looks of it) as the sections closer to the strobes, and leave the shorter arms (sections closer to the housing) without floats.

This way, as you pull the arms backwards a bit and up (10/2 o’clock position is a good allrounder), you might find that it balance the floatation of the dome port a bit better.

If not, it’s a case of making that dome port more negative indeed.

I know people comfortable with DIY have drilled the dome shade to help attach all sorts of weights, but I wouldn’t trust myself to do a good job at it, so if that were my gear, I’d first try something less destructive, such as using gaffer tape/double-sided tape to hold some lead.

Isotta even have made a product in that fashion: https://www.isotecnic.it/en/products-en/strobe/red64-strobe/trim-weight-holder-detail.html

Ikelite have come up with another way to solve this: https://www.ikelite.com/products/trim-weight-system-for-dlm-mirrorless-housings