Inon has announced a series of “cold” shoe bases. There are three versions, two offering rotating and swivelling movement with 1/4” 20 or M6 attachments and the third with a 1” ball mount. All 3 share a common cold shoe attachment, so are interchangeable.

All three versions are shipping now, please consult your local Inon dealer for pricing information.

Press release

Shoe Base 1/4-20UNC, Shoe Base M6 and Shoe Base BALL

INON INC. is pleased to announce official release of three different new type of Shoe Bases offering simple yet compact strobe/light/action camera etc. installation on the accessory shoe (Cold Shoe) of underwater housing from various brands. They are Shoe Base 1/4-20UNC Shoe Base M6 and Shoe Base BALL. Each of them works as a shoe base with 1/4 in. screw, M6 screw or ball-joint and disassembled upper part of them are attachable on a tripod. These new Shoe Bases provides more secure installation on an accessory shoe.

Shoe Base 1/4-20UNC
–Release date: December 27th, 2017
–JAN Code: 456212143 848 4

Shoe Base M6
–Release date: December 27th, 2017
–JAN Code : 456212143 847 7

Shoe Base BALL
–Release date: January 11th, 2018
–JAN Code: 456212143 852 1

Features

• Directly attached on the Accessory Shoe of a conventional underwater housing etc. or INON Shoe Base Spacer etc. (*1)

• These new Shoe Bases are designed to separate upper Head Adapter and lower Shoe Base Adapter. All Head Adapter has 1/4 tripod screw hole on its bottom to attach on a tripod etc.

• All Head Adapters are available separately while Shoe Base Adapter is identical among three Shoe Bases to create different combination only with an optional other type Head Adapter.

• Shoe Base 1/4-20UN and Shoe Base M6 is equipped with a ball head to support wide movable range (360-degree rotatable and 180-degree back and forth) with compact body. These two Shoe Bases have a Locking wingnut on the side to lock movement or unlock to adjust combined product orientation. These design/construction provide intuitive controllability and ample load capacity to hold combined product. (*2)

Shoe Base 1/4-20UNC

• A Shoe Base equipped with 1/4-20UNC male screw on its head adapter to attach a conventional digital camera or underwater housing directly as they originally have 1/4-20UNC female screw hole on the bottom(*2).
• Use INON Single Light Holder LE/LF for Tripod when attaching INON LE/LF series LED flashlight.

• Shoe Base equipped with M6 screw on its head adapter to attach an INON strobe or accessories for an action camera (SD Front Mask, SD Mount Base etc.) directly (*2).

Shoe Base BALL

• A versatile Shoe Base equipped with ball-joint as its head adapter to link with INON Arm II system compatible ball-joint via Clamp III (*2).

Compatible product

All Shoe Adapter

• An Accessory Shoe of underwater housing/Mount Base/Video Base (*2).
• Shoe Base Spacer
• Shoe Base Adapter D4
• Shoe Base Adapter X-2

Please refer below link to see compatibility with underwater housings on INON web site.

Shoe Base 1/4-20UNC,Shoe Base M6,Shoe Base BALL Compatibility Chart [PDF:85KB]

Shoe Base 1/4-20 UNC (1/4 Tripod Screw)

• Single Light Holder LE for Tripod
• Single Light Holder LF for Tripod
• SD Mount Cage for HERO3/3+/4 , SD Front Mask STD, SD Front Mask for HERO5/6,
• SD Mount Base for TG-Tracker, SD Mount Base UWH1

• An action camera/compact digital camera equipped with 1/4-20UNC tripod screw hole (depth: 5mm/0.2in. or more)

  Shoe Base M6 M6 Screw)

• INON strobes Z-330, S-2000, Z-240, D-2000, D-2000S, D-2000W/Wn, D-180, D-180S, Z-220, Z-220S, Z-220F

• SD Mount Cage for HERO3/3+/4, SD Front Mask STD, SD Front Mask for HERO5/6, SD Mount Base for TG-Tracker, SD Mount Base UWH1 (*3)

Shoe Base BALL (Ball adapter)

• Clamp III
• Clamp

(*1) Optional Accessory Shoe Spacer for Canon is required when installing these products on an accessory shoe of Canon housing.

(*2) This product is designed to make simple set-up to attach strobe/light/compact digital camera /action camera etc. on a water-proof housing or tripod. So attaching too heavy product or too many products could cause excessive load on this product and combined water-proof housing or abrupt movement of the combined product could happen leading to personal injury, damage or malfunction.

(*3) OptionalRubber Spacer is required when installing on the SD Mount Cage for HERO3/3+/4.

Please consult with your purchasing dealer for detail.