Handle mount flashes with modeling lights?

[waynecrider]

Have you ever seen any handle mount flashes (or others) that incorporated a small modeling light for nighttime focusing? Infrared focusing excepted.

 

[bdial]

You mean besides the light built into some Kalart rangefinders and powered from the flash, 50+ years ago?
no
It's a good idea though.

 

[eric]

Have you ever seen any handle mount flashes (or others) that incorporated a small modeling light for nighttime focusing? Infrared focusing excepted.

I've never seen one. Ductape a Mag flashlight?

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

There are Norman portable heads with modeling lights that can be used with the 400B battery pack.

 

[waynecrider]

There are Norman portable heads with modeling lights that can be used with the 400B battery pack.

I've seen the Norman heads, but they seem a little too big, and I'm adverse from carrying too much battery although belt ridden. I could just get a video light but the size puts me off. I had thought that Metz at one time had a modeling light in one of their units.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

There is a larger portable head with four tubes plus a modeling light, and there is a small head that is the same size as the regular LH2 head with a plug for a small quartz modeling light that is mounted on the reflector, and these are light enough to use on a camera bracket, but the 400B pack is pretty heavy. Better on a shoulder strap than a belt, if you want to keep your pants up. I'm not sure if the modeling light heads can run off the 200C pack, which is much smaller, though it also has half the power.

In that video of Winogrand that was floating around recently, he was shooting a parade a night with his Leica and a Norman 200B on a shoulder strap with an LH2 head and 5" reflector on a bracket (no modeling light as far as I could tell). The 200B is the same size as the 400B, but not as heavy.