I wish I could shoot on lower surfaces, but they’re chef’s/cooks doing their thing, so regular kitchen counter tops it is!

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. 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. 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. Today, the term C-stand is a popular name for the grip stand made by Matthews Studio Equipment, Inc.

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. It also features a standard 5/8-inch Baby-Pin connection, that enables it to be mounted onto virtually any C-Stand or light stand on the market.

The boom arm can be used to mount light fixtures enabling them to be positioned above or below your subject. 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. For example, you are able to attach a heavy Scrim panel to a C-Stand securely due to the large maximum load capacity without the worry of it moving. This sand bag is heavy so if it was on the back end of the stand, it would actually pull the arm up.I am still very new to all of this but would like something better than my current situation for overhead shots. 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.