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…

This was the missing piece in my pop up studio. Having purchased Neewer lights. I was missing a boom stand to position a hair light in my 3 way lighting system. Show this in a lightening sale, as well as a Amazon’s free delivery week. Great saving. I have to say on first look this is a great bit of kit and I am sure I will be happy with it for some time. Well done Neewer for helping in me.

I bought one of these for a project where I really needed an overhead light, and didn’t expect a lot from this based on the price. After using it, I can’t say that it’s lacking anything compared to any other c stands I’ve used in the past. In fact, as soon as I got home from the shoot, I ordered another one, and a carrying case that holds both. Basically a very solid c stand, with spring loaded safety poles (can’t imagine one not having that, but these indeed have them) and everything just works well. It is NOT light, but for something like this, you don’t want it light. You need to use sand bags with it anyhow, so the hefty weight is an added bonus to the structurally sound materials.

I’ve only docked a star because it’s not a true C-Stand as the legs can’t be moved up or down the shaft to place on uneven surfaces, such as a step. Because the image looks almost identical to what a real C-stand would look like, someone might think they’re nabbing a bargain as Avenger stands cost in the region of £200.

Despite this, I think it’s a great value heavy duty stand. Firstly it’s incredibly heavy due to its stainless steel construction, certainly overkill for speedlites, but the weight of these stands means that not only can you attach a good monobloc strobe with a heavy light modifier, but the stand is also rigid enough to use a superclamp to hold other things, like a reflector holder.

The legs, though not independent, rotate out with a little force and fans out, just make sure you use the supplied allen key to loosen the legs first, otherwise they will not move. When fanned out, they provide a smaller footprint than a tripod-style stand. Very versatile in this regard. Should you need extra stability, you can drape a sandbag over the large leg.

The boom arm is also solidly constructed. The clamps are firm when tightened and will stay in position should you know best practice. It has a stud-like shape at either end to attach your strobes or accessories. When attached to the stand you should always use the boom on the right of the clamp and the arm should be pointing in the same direction as the largest leg. This allows the weight of the arm to drop down in the “tighty” direction and will be supported with the best leg.

Lastly, the actual stand portion itself. It slots into the leg section separately, so it can be detached for storage purposes, but if you own a few, you can just rotate the legs around and stack them against each other. Find Shane Hurlbut’s video on youtube for this method. It is padded towards the top so you can have a good grip on the stand if you don’t like the touch of cold steel. It’s two sections, like in the picture and will extend to just over 3 metres. If you point the boom arm straight up, it will be over 4m, just make sure you get someone to hold the stand for stability! Be careful when undoing the knobs for the sections, they will shoot up like a rocket because of the heavy duty springs inside (to minimise shock to your lights should you just allow it to drop when you undo the knob without securing the section) and you don’t want any part of your body or fragile items to be in the way of this.

All in all, better value and more versatile, in my humble opinion, than air cushioned tripod varieties. It’s very heavy but if Brexit causes the country to turn to some post-apocalyptic nightmare, you can detach the stand from the legs and use it to defend youself from roving biker gangs who might steal your gear and/or your woman.

Maybe I should have given it 5 stars?

Just got it in, pretty easy to setup for a first time user and nice and sturdy. Can’t wait to use this for product shoots!

I have owned a lot of light stands in the past of varying degrees of quality and cost and I really wish I would’ve started with this one all along. It is SERIOUSLY COMMERCIAL GRADE in materials, quality construction and stability!! I got this to use with a big $1,000 LED video light, and with this I don’t have to worry for a second about it falling over or being bumped accidentally. This thing – while NOT light weight is exactly what you want out of a light stand for your studio. It can be portable, sure, but this is more suited to be set up and stay up because it’s so big and heavy. I LOVE it! I was having to put weight plates on my cheaper tripod light stands and pray a stuff breeze wouldn’t blow them over before. I really wish I would’ve just bought this one in the first place. I can’t recommend highly enough! And yes, I paid full price for it. I hope this helps someone else! Feel free to ask me any questions.

Je cherchais un pied, un vrai, pour pouvoir déporter des projecteurs ou encore pour pouvoir faire une vrai plongée avec ma caméra.

C’est du très bon matos, le pied est en métal et la base est bien stable.

Je l’utilise pas en déport maximal ou alors il vaut mieux utiliser du lest pour contrebalancer le poids.

Rien à redire. Les rotules fonctionnent bien, on est sur du matos professionnel.

Je recommande sans hésitation.

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