There are several different kinds of legs. Some are spring loaded, which can be very nice. Others, like the ones pictured above, can slide up the riser column, which can be handy for rigging in precarious situations. Also notice the tallest leg is in the direction of the arm. This will help to ensure that the stand won’t fall over. It only has three legs after all. So you are putting the weight over the largest leg. First you have the center column part. This center column usually has two risers in it to take the stand up as high as 10 feet. If your camera does not have a rotating screen, it will be difficult for you to see that, so you’ll need an eye piece adapter like this one called a Right Angle Finder made for your camera. This C-Stand comes supplied with a detachable 20” Boom arm with 2x 2.5” Grip heads for added versatility. The boom arm can be used to mount light fixtures enabling them to be positioned above or below your subject. It can also be used to hold accessories, such as reflectors, scrims, flags, etc.

If your camera has a rotating screen, then you can swing that screen out so that you can easily see what you are doing. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (designates original point of circulation of a dollar bill) Brown, Blain (2002). Cinematography: imagemaking for cinematographers, directors and videographers. Focal Press. p.252. ISBN 0-240-80500-3. In film production, a C-stand (or Century stand) [1] [2] is primarily used to position light modifiers, such as silks, nets, or flags, in front of light sources. [3] The stand is constructed of metal and consists of a collapsible base, two riser columns, and a baby pin on top. In addition, a C-stand typically includes a gobo head and a gobo arm, also known as a grip head and grip arm, [4] which provide the ability to articulate a light modifier without moving the stand itself. The legs of C stands are designed to be nested, so many stands can be placed around a light source.C-stands were made for rigging all sorts of other things. Technically yes, you can put a camera on a C-stand, I just want to be totally honest with you here that I never do it. The 161cm Studio C-Stand Stainless with 20” Boom is made from stainless steel, with a shiny chrome finish, which makes it extremely strong, and capable of taking loads of up to 10kg in weight. This makes them ideal for heavy light fixtures used in TV and Film productions, as well as in professional photographic studios.

This 161cm Studio C-Stand Stainless features a detachable base which makes storage and transportation a lot easier. 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. A C-stand is sometimes referred to as a "grip stand". 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. Matthews Studio Equipment (2022-07-26). "20" C+STAND W/SPRING LOADED TURTLE BASE, INCLUDES GRIP HEAD & ARM". Matthews Studio Equipment . Retrieved 2022-07-26.a b Matthews Studio Equipment (2022-07-26). "40" C+Stand Spring Loaded Turtle Base". matthewsgrip . Retrieved 2019-11-06. This 161cm Studio C-Stand Stainless has three nested legs with varying leg heights, which enables you to position multiple c-stands really close together in a way that is not possible with regular light stands. The legs also fold flat for storage and transportation. Matthews Studio Equipment (2022-07-26). "BABY STANDS". Matthews Studio Equipment . Retrieved 2022-07-26. a b c d Box, Harry C. (2010). Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Fourth Edition. Focal Press. pp.75–82. ISBN 978-0-240-81075-1.

There are 100’s of items that are made that can attach to a C Stand arm. There aren’t a lot of ways to attach a camera, because of what I mentioned above. You can use this arm for your overhead shooting with smaller cameras. Again, you have to counterweigh it when doing so. I highly urge you NOT to rig any of the bigger pro DSLR’s this way. They are just too heavy. 4. The Legs The Studio Robust C-Stand Stainless-Steel Turtle Grip & 20" Arm Set is a special robust, heavy-duty type of light stand that is widely used in both the filmmaking and photography industries. 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. 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. You have to remember this phrase when working with grip equipment: “Righty Tighty; Lefty Loosy”. When you are rigging equipment to hold things, there’s a right way and a very wrong way to do this.I want to be very clear here. NEVER do I use a C-stand to rig any of my cameras on my jobs. It’s just not what professional photographers do. The 161cm C-Stand with 20” Boom arm, is an essential piece of kit, ideal for any modern studio to fit the needs of photographers and videographers everywhere.

Matthews Studio Equipment (2022-07-26). "20" C+Stand w/Spring Loaded Turtle Base, includes Grip Head & Arm". matthewsgrip . Retrieved 2019-11-06. You need to set this up so that any weight pulling down on any parts will be tightening the grip, not loosening it!In 1974, Matthews Studio Equipment introduced the industry's first folding base C-Stand. 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. [6] Use [ edit ] 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. The bag is slung over the top of the tall stand leg so the weight is fully on the stand and not the ground. [4] [5] Types [ edit ] This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( April 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) They come in two sizes, a 40 inch stand or a 20 inch stand, also called a Shorty. The Parts Of A C Stand 1. TheColumn The term C-stand comes from the early history of lighting equipment. The C-Stand, or century stand, was named for the company that first produced bespoke lighting gear for live theater and filmmaking: Century Lighting based in New York City, which later became Century Strand and eventually Strand Lighting. [7] In later years, studios, grips and gaffers began to manufacture the earliest versions of what we now call C-Stands. 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. [8] Today, the term C-stand is a popular name for the grip stand made by Matthews Studio Equipment, Inc. and has been copied by other manufacturers. [ citation needed] [9] C-stands are an important component in the image maker's arsenal of tools.