User Manual

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Attaching Two Wimberley Macro Flash Brackets to Your Camera Body:
Attach one bracket to the bottom dovetail of the plate, and one bracket to the top dovetail. You may have to experiment with the ex-
act configuration of the macro brackets to insure that you have enough room to easily grab the camera and manipulate the flash
brackets.
Use as a Macro Slider:
By sliding the M-8 Perpendicular Plate in the quick-release clamp of your tripod head, you can make small forward and backward adjust-
ments in the position of you camera as shown below. This is useful for macro photography. Note: The Perpendicular Plate is not designed
to give you the range of motion and precise adjustability of a rack-and-pinion focusing rail.
The Perpendicular Plate gives you about 1.7 inches of total forward-backwards adjustment. This amount of adjustment is most useful
when you are doing macro photography in the 1:1 scale range. Often you want to get as close to a subject as possible, but after you’ve
positioned your tripod you may find that you are too close and the subject is just out of the focal range of your lens. Use the Perpendicular
Plate to slide your camera backward or forward just enough to get your subject in focus.
M-8
P-5 plate
M-1
M-4
F-2 Macro
Flash Bracket
(includes M-1 and M-4)
In order to insure that the M-8 plate is
clamped securely, it is important to
make sure that the end of the plate
extends at least ½ inch beyond the
middle of the clamp.
We recommend installing the safety
stop screw provided with the M-8
plate to prevent the plate from acci-
dentally sliding out of the clamp when
it is loosened (Previous Page)
Caution: When using the perpendicular plate
as a macro slider, you may end up sliding the
plate so far back in the clamp that it is no longer
properly clamped.