Looking for a better way to secure gels to our off-camera flash units.
Tape tends to leave a sticky residue after some use.
Office rubber bands tends to dry up and crack.
Anyone with an inexpensive low tech recommendation?
jchin wrote:
Looking for a better way to secure gels to our off-camera flash units. ...Anyone with an inexpensive low tech recommendation?
Periodically replacing the rubber bands (and using large enough bands that they don't have to stretch too much -- gels don't weigh much, after all) is probably the least expensive route.
More permanent, and definitely more efficient if not less expensive over the long run, is this:
I used plastic from a product packaging (the ones that are annoying to open!). Cut a strip out, folded that in half and then folded an L at the top. I've been using it for about 2 years. The plastic cracked a bit on the interior bend but it is still functional.
velcro. soft side on the two sides of the flash, hook side in small strips on the ends of rectangular cut gels. worried about velcro on your flash? don't, you can always clean it off with 'goof-off' or similar if you're going to sell the flash.
I mainly use Honl gels. Wrap the velcro strap around the flash head and slap the gels on. The other thing I like about the Honl gels is the roll-up case he makes. I have every sort of gel imaginable in a tightly rolled bundle (which itself is velcroed).
