Chad Walters
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I came across this thread because I'm looking to get my flash off-camera. The reviews I have seen for this are stunningly bad. Especially for a $60+ item. I was hoping to find a workable alternative, but this topic here only confuses me more. For those of you who claim that it's not really a Canon or they're too hard on their equipment, check out some of the reviews.
From http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B000OEP3F4/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_1?_encoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addOneStar
"I hate this plastic crappy base with metal screws. It has problems with the 580 EX II. The weight of the flash will cause it to crack in the middle. I go through one of these a month."
"Broke instantly when I attached my 580EX II onto the mount. Cracked in half. Left my flash hanging in the air. Terrible design. Perhaps not using cheap plastic on a part that has a fair amount of torque would be better. Not impressed. Waste of money."
"Broke within 5 minutes of use. Split right down the middle and sent my flash tumbling. Completely useless. DO NOT BUY. "
"The first time I tried to use this, it snapped in half just like those of the other reviewers."
"When I brought this to my first gig it cracked within the first few minutes. "
There sure are a lot of people that are so hard on their equipment that it breaks on the very first day. But it sounds like all their other equipment they're hard on manages to survive. (At least that's my impression.)
From adorama
http://www.adorama.com/CAOCSCE3.html?searchinfo=oc-e3&item_no=2
"I wrote an earlier review on this and was quite happy with it. I was shocked last weekend during a shoot that it just simple broke and split in half."
"I decided to buy the expensive Canon product because I wanted the reliability. After filming 2 high school football games, I noticed the screws coming out of the top shoe that held the flash on a bracket. I use a 580 EX II flash. All of the tubes that the screws screw into cracked and the two halves separated."
"I purchased this product to replace my broken CANON shoe cord 2 which is now discontinued and it broke within an hour of use."
Also, in virtually every case, Canon told each of these reviewers, tough, we don't warrantly physical damage.
Maybe I'm missing something, but there's no way a cord like this ought to cost more than $10...so when it costs $70, I don't want to see ANY reviews like these...(ok, maybe one for the oddball who actually did abuse it...) but I'm very not interested in throwing away that much money on something that first off is way overpriced anyway, but second has apparently zero actual warranty and it sounds like a huge likelihood it'll break.
Hoping for someone to bring along a good alternative here....but I'm not buying the responses about abusing the equipment.
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