Yes you need a hot shoe that screws onto the umbrella adapter. Either 1/4" or 3/8" thread. There is a genuine pentax adapter that screws into the umbrella adapter. This one allows the use of dedicated flash functions (such as TTL, contrast control etc.). I think it is termed off-camera shoe adapter F (- don't mix it up with the hot shoe adapters F and FG that do not have a tripod mount). Alexander
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Pearson" Subject: RE: Help me find a flash/umbrella bracket > Thanks for the suggestion. However, I don't think > this will work for what I'm trying to do. I'm trying > to mount a "hot shoe" style flash, say a Vivitar 285, > and then bounce it into an umbrella. Maybe I did not > see the flash mount on this bracket??? > I'm sure Larson makes such a thing. I have a couple of them for my > old portable system, pretty sure they were Larson. > Have you checked with Porter's? They used to carry all sorts of neat > little adaptors and stuff. > > William Robb __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com