The Flash Flipper module is for a special application useful for handheld shots with a short lens which uses the telephoto bracket setup of Combo 1 attached to the camera plate. In order to do this, you must have an Arca-Swiss style quick release plate on your camera body oriented parallel to the axis of your lens (90 degrees from the typical orientation of a camera body plate). You can achieve this by attaching the Wimberley Perpendicular Plate to your camera body plate.

Ordinarily flash brackets are attached to a lens plate on a rotating lens collar, so when the lens rotates the brackets stay in place. Because this is not the case with a setup on the camera plate, the Flash Flipper is available to maintain a flash position over the camera, which can be important in casting flash shadows more downward instead of directly behind the subject.