Pig IronLB-1 L-Bracket Tripod Quick Release Plate for Cameras. Arca-Swiss

Camera brackets are part of a "grey area" in photography world, where it's basically unclear where a reasonable price threshold is, and there are lots of myths/misleading information. So you can find products which appear similar, and whose cost varies by a factor of 20.This plate indeed has a reasonable price, but also a really impressive quality and a lot of attention for details (like the screw and the strap handler - peakdesign users will love it).It easily fits my large camera and it can easily be adjusted not to block too much (on my Sony DSLR, I can open the battery door and one of the two cable doors, not both, but this should be expected from a plate which is not camera-specific).The plate fits well the tripod in both directions, and the camera -quite heavy- feels tightly secured.In short: after buying this, I really have no desire to upgrade to a more expensive plate.

I don't often write product reviews but when I think the item is either excellent or rubbish, then I will. This is five star excellent. It fits my Canon 5D MkIII exactly, leaving access to the ports on left hand side of the camera when looking from the back. (Remote shutter release is, for me, the important one). It fits my Canon 1DX, but because the camera is "taller" the hinged rubber covers will not open, denying access to those ports. I'm not worried about this because I bought the L-Bracket for my 5D rather than the 1DX. There are two screws at the ends of the Arca-style plates. These can be nipped up gently with an Allen hex key when the bracket is in situ to make the fit on the camera really tight. I didn't buy the cheapest bracket. My fear was that these would be sloppily engineered using soft metal. This Pig Iron bracket is the real deal and cheaper than some. A quibble? There's got to be a quibble. The corners near the joining of the two pieces to form the "L" could have been gently rounded. They are not sharp or dangerous, but do feel slightly uncomfortable in the palm of the hand. Having said that, the bracket, camera and lens will be on top of a tripod when in action so that minor quibble can probably be ignored.

I was A bit unsure which L Bracket to buy as there is such a huge variance in price for a small piece of metal. However this fits my Nikon D810 perfectly with easy access to the battery and remote cable release port, which is all I generally care about. It also works well on a D7100, although marginally more fiddly. Very glad I bought this as it makes switching between portrait and landscape views on a tripod easy. Not sure why you’d want to spend well in excess of £100 for a bracket that claims to be be specifically for a certain camera model.

I wanted to "try" using an L bracket and like a lot of products, whilst the idea sounds great until you have tried them you just don't know whether you will get along with them. This bracket was not expensive, some cost x4 the price but it works fine. As to how durable it may be in the long run I have no idea because only time will answer that question but it seems fine in these early days. Overall it is very good value for money so my view is that it allows me to try an L bracket as part of my photographic kit and even if in 6/12 months time I decided I needed a more robust and expensive model which may not be the case, it will still have been good value to me.

When I was researching L-Brackets for my NikonZ50, I came across a lot of discussion on whether the bracket works with the Z50 when using the FTZ adaptor. So I can confirm it's not possible to leave the L-Bracket on the camera base, when the FTZ adaptor is fitted due to a slight interference with the lower 1/4" mounting point on the FTZ. However the Pig-iron L-Bracket does fit onto the FTZ - as with any tripod plate, the L-Bracket must be moved from the camera 1/4" mount, to the FTZ 1/4" mount and back when your swapping from Z to F-mount lenses.The L-Bracket can be positioned to provide access to all the Z50 ports and battery door. I'm very pleased with the quality of the Pig-Iron product, the machining is excelent and the Arca Swiss interface perfectly with my ball-head providing a very secure mount. I really can't see how anyone can justify spending five times the price when the Pig-Iron L-bracket is so good.