NEEWER Pro 100% Stainless Steel Heavy Duty C Stand with Boom Arm, Max Height 10.5ft/320cm Photography Light Stand with 4.2ft/128cm Holding Arm, 2 Grip Head for Studio Monolight, Softbox, Reflector

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C-Stands offer a wide range of different uses, from supporting lighting units to holding backgrounds in place to even mounting cameras. This makes them ideal for heavy light fixtures used in TV and Film productions, as well as in professional photographic studios. You need to make sure when there is a weight on the end of the C Stand arm (like a camera), that you have placed the arm and the knuckle so that the weight of the object weighing down, will actually be tightening the knuckle. If you are standing behind the stand to set it up, make sure your grip head (knuckle), has the large locking knob on the right side of the stand. It is great for mounting various studio accessories to it, making mounting items such as flags, scrims, Cucoloris cookies, and other accessories to your light stand, c-stand, or grip arm a lot easier.

What’s great about this bracket is that there is a cork (or black rubber depending on the bracket) covering on the plate at the pin that helps to really tighten the camera down onto the bracket so that it won’t move. The bag is slung over the top of the tall stand leg so the weight is fully on the stand and not the ground.The stronger design of the C-Stands also allows you to use heavy and larger backgrounds without the worry of the stands collapsing under the weight. The original C-Stands had welded bases that did not fold up or adjust but the fact that they easily nested together made them invaluable on the stage. Whilst C-Stands are predominately designed to be used as stands for heavy lighting and modifiers, they offer a wide range of different uses. Made from Stainless Steel, C-stands are capable of holding heavy lighting fixtures such as light banks, and strobes with large or heavy modifiers as well as other accessories such as scrims and flags, etc. One way this can be used would be to attach a boom arm with a camera bracket to the C-Stand to allow you to achieve Over-Head Photography.

The Grip department always—and sometimes the electrical department—carries C stands for use with lights that don't mount onto baby or junior stands, such as kinos. The unique staggered leg design allows C-Stands to be nested and therefore be placed extremely close to one another on set. There’s a silly one saying that the stand would hold a reflector that is 100 inches, which is more than 8 feet, so that’s just ridiculous. I have a wild assortment of these that I’ve collected over 30 years made by all kinds of different companies. The stand is constructed of metal and consists of a collapsible base, two riser columns, and a baby pin on top.The base of the C-Stand features a 1-1/8” Junior-Pin receiver, which used together with the main central column of the C-stand or can be used with heavier light lighting fixtures that use the larger Junior pin connection such as Arri lights, enabling you to use the legs like a heavy-duty floor stand. In this Blog Post, we look into what C-Stands are and how C-Stands can be adapted to become a versatile piece of equipment for your studio. Some brands have a cork or rubber disc inside this knuckle to make the grip really tight, which is obviously great for rigging heavy stuff.

Failure to follow this rule will cause the weight to slowly loosen the head, eventually dropping the gear altogether. C-Stands were originally used in the early days of cinema and were used to hold up large reflectors which reflected Sunlight to illuminate the set before the introduction of artificial lighting later. Since a stand is used to hold a piece of gear high above or far off to the side, the base of the stand must be weighed down, commonly with shotbags, sometimes with sandbags.When setting and tightening a grip arm, flag or other equipment in the grip head, it is crucial that the gear be set to one side of the grip head such that the weight causes the locking knob to tighten clockwise, or "righty tighty". Matthews produces a wide range of C-Stands and related accessories to assist the motion picture, television and photographic professional in lighting and lighting modification support. Then when I shoot product, I put black paper tape on the stands that might reflect light into my set.