Ball Arm Kit

The Ball Arm Kit is how you get your lights away from the camera — the single biggest step up in underwater image quality, and the one most divers put off for too long.

The SLKIT11 Ball Arm Kit is a complete turn-key package that includes one SL9909 Ball Arm, two SL9907 Ball Clamps, one SL995 Flex-Connect Ball Joint Adapter and one SL999 Ball Joint Adapter for Flex-Connect. Use two Ball Arm Kits to gain an additional 9.5” (24cm) extension.

Why a Ball Arm Kit improves your photos

Lights mounted close to the lens throw their beam straight through the particles floating in front of it, and every one of those particles comes back as a bright white speck. That is backscatter, and it is the reason most underwater snapshots look like they were taken in a snowstorm. Moving the lights out and forward on arms sends the beam across the subject instead of through the water column in front of it, and the specks largely disappear.

The arms also give you control over shadow. With lights held out wide you can model a subject rather than flatten it, which is the difference between a record shot and a photograph. And because the ball-clamp system holds position firmly once tightened, the aim you set on the surface is the aim you still have at depth.

Expanding with the Ball Arm Kit

This is a turn-key package — arm, both clamps and both Flex-Connect adapters — so there is nothing else to work out or order. If you want more reach, a second kit adds a further 9.5 in (24 cm) of extension, which is the usual next step for divers moving to two lights on a dual tray.

Buying the Ball Arm Kit from Scuba Grabbers

We stock genuine SeaLife gear in Qatar with full warranty, and we will assemble it onto your rig and set the clamp tension with you before you dive it.

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