Press release:
24th November, 2009.
KL Associates,Northampton.

JP Distribution is pleased to announce the new Tilthead Bracket with Locking Shoe Mount from award winning manufacturer Lastolite.

The Tilthead Shoe Lock features an adjustable ‘screw locking’ shoe mount, which offers an additional locking mechanism to work alongside the built in method used on the flashgun.

The dimensions of the hotshoe on the bottom of each flashgun can vary from one gun to the other. However, the Tilthead Shoe Lock can comfortably accommodate these variances, including the Nikon SB900.

This new bracket (LAS2422) will be offered alongside the original Tilthead bracket (LAS2402).



Availability

The new Tilthead Bracket with Locking Shoe Mount is available as of 1st November 2009.

Pricing

SRP £22.99 Inc vat / JP Code: 192302



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THE BEAUTY OF BIC

The best thing about the ubiquitous biro is its simplicity.

In France, Bic is the generic name of all such writing instruments. Flip the cap off a slender yellow plastic stalk and apply to paper. Usually, it works.

In 1959, the Olympus Optical Co Ltd., launched the Pen camera; a product designed for writing with light conceived around the principle of functional simplicity in a compact but elegant package. It worked and the company made and sold hundreds of thousands of the many different models of the Pen and Pen F half frame cameras produced over the next 20 odd years.

But half frame was nothing new. Other companies, in an effort to woo more customers to the miniature 35mm film format by marketing the advantage of economy to be gained from obtaining 72 frames from a single cassette instead of the normal 36, had launched similar products. Mostly, until Olympus launched the Pen series, half frame models were built around regular full frame cameras with the film gate and viewfinder masked off to the appropriate 18X24mm format.

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