Essential Gear for Photographers: Super Clamp
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2024
- I'm been asked many times to go over some of the essential gear for photographers and if I had to start somewhere, the super clamp is certainly a great spot. In this video, I go over many of the potential uses for super clamps and the gear I used are all linked here below.
Manfrotto Super Clamp: bit.ly/SuperClampWS
Matthews Mafer Clamp: bit.ly/MafSC
Replacement wedges: bit.ly/WEDGESC
Mini Extension arm for super clamp: bit.ly/MinEASC
Camera Platform: bit.ly/MFCBMARM
Joining Stud: bit.ly/JningStud
Tripod Head Mounting Plate: bit.ly/Manf208H
Other Super Clamp related tools, not shown:
Super Clamp Grip Head: bit.ly/SupClamGH
Double Super Clamp: bit.ly/DoubSClmp
Extension Arm: bit.ly/EXSClmp
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Thanks so much for making this video! I currently have an extra arm attached to my monitor arm to mount a camera for when I’m at my desk, but thanks to this video, I figured how I might be able to just mount the camera directly onto the pole, which would take up much less space and it’d be easier to put away as opposed to my current permanent solution.
Thanks a lot Daniel, Very useful and informative video. I learnt a lot, God bless you!
THANK YOU for such a clear, complete and helpful video ! You open such perspectives to us, sunday photographers !
Thank You!
I'm just beginning to learn about these basic but really useful tools to improve my media production, and you are the man with knowledge. Thankyou for sharing! I'm researching using this superclamp attatched to a light stand to hold a monopod which then be booming for my mic. Research. Research. Research!
This video helped me out A LOT. Wow. I’m very grateful for this information. Thank you!
Awesome
this is great! i like your presentation style: professional and to the point practical advice that i can use. thank you, Sir.
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100% agreed on the wonderfulness of super clamps. Great video, thank you
Hi Daniel ! I always love your gear tutorials ! So many great ideas ! Love the super clamp on the ladder... nice ! ✅
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Thank you, very informative and helpful video :)
They are great clamps and the rest of the stuff that goes with it is helpful. Thanks Daniel
For sure
Very helpful. Thanks man. Happy new year
Thanks- Happy new year
Love these video's Daniel, very helpful.
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Thank you, great video!
Such a great video, thank-you 🙂
G'day Daniel mate, Great video man. Happy to subscribe. Cheers from Western Australia
You are an amazing teacher, thank you so much!!
Thank You!
Cool. I discovered super clamps the way most of us did. I had bogen autopoles for my background stand back in the day. Good to see you teaching this great tool to the masses.
Bogen! Yes!!
Super helpful! Thanks Daniel.
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I have recently bought two of those! super helpful!
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Thanks for the imformative and clear information...
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Thanks, Daniel! Great details for someone like me, because I have a bunch of speedlights, but not studio strobes, at this time. References like this are great.
Cool, yes they can easily hold small flashes
You always make interesting videos. Thanks for another interesting video.
Thank You!
Very useful. Thanks for posting.
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Thanks for the video! Very helpful ❤️🙏🏼
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Great video! Thanks for sharing -- just subscribed.
Thanks! I have dozens of super clamps and use them. Now I can use them better!!!
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I use several for my background paper. I have the 3 roll geared chain drive paper holder clamped to two light stands. love them Kupo is my fave brand for grip.
Excellent
Thank you for the info! On another note, you’re shirt is awesome!
Thank You!
Thanks from Chicago
Happy New Year!
Happy new year
Grip is an absolutely baffling subject, thank you for spending time on specific pieces. I think I’ll use one of these for flat lay.
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I want one of them... cool clamp ..thanks for sharing
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Thanks Daniel!!!
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Thanks a lot!
Thanks Daniel!
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I just picked up 2 of them. The manfrotto ones. I also picked up 6 inch kupo baby pin. Works wonderfully. I also got the short studs which allows me to mount a ball head flush to it. Sort of like a poor mans platypod. These things are awesome
Nice
So helpful! Would they be able to hold a strobe and modifier to a backdrop stand overhead? I would love to see a video on that! I love your concise and to the point style of delivery! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Clamps are great. Makes life easy.
For sure
What a great video! In typical NY fashion, you talked soooooo fast! I didn't even see your cup of coffee on set! This is one video I'll have to watch multiple times! Thanks for sharing! Time to order some swag from you!
Oh there was coffee believe me 😊
Excelent!!! Thanks!
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Thanks Daniel - that was brilliant so helpful. Could you do a video of a rig for shooting down on to food or products that would be nice and stable.
Thanks- I believe I have lol - I’ll do it again though if it is no longer around
I loved SuperClamp. Breakfast In America is a truly brilliant album.
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Very useful This video sir, , big thank you sir R.MANOHAR ,Chennai.India
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Hi again, Daniel! Thanks for this great video. Would you happen to know if smaller clamps (Smallrig/Camvate) can tightly fit these larger-diameter poles? Or is a big super clamp required? Thanks again!
Thank you
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Seriously, this video is THE 1% - NOBODY promoting stands / lights / youtube rigs / booms / jibs (what am I leaving off? Plenty.) Nobody knows how to "stunt these clamps. All hail - and thanks for saving me still more hours (and worse.)
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Thanks for the intro to clamps 😊
Any chance of providing us with a brand name and/or link to the U-Hooks? Thx
Very useful video! I wonder how should I pull back the tripod's extendable arm inside. It is original, Manfrotto MHXPRO_BHQ2, please guide me if possible. I pulled out to attach my camera, but it is not getting back inside. Is it broken now?
The hex @3:40 could this be used to stick the clamp stem of an elgato low profile mic into?
Also if you could define the terminology of that clamp stem part for me lol
would there be a way to attach a boom arm to a c stand that already has a light on it? like using the super clamp or something and a Microphone Boom Support Holder? Any ideas?
What is the pole you mentioned for narrow spaces? I have limited space too
Great vid! Subscribed! Can the super clamps be mounted on a horizontal autopole / varipole... while the angle changes, so a lighting fixture/head can fit on it? I've only seen these clamps mounted vertically... thanks!
Sure, they can be mounted on a horizontal pole
What would be the best way for me to have a light with a lantern softbox hanging from the ceiling? The studio has a grid in the ceiling but it's too high
This is the one I’ve been searching for and it deserves a Part Two: what about poles for these clamps. Floor-to-ceiling, horizontal, those with knuckles, even ceiling rails? Just a simple rigging system to get gear off the floor. Can’t keep stepping around stands and ducking octas forever…
While I don’t use a rail system currently, I have worked in studios with them and they can certainly be convenient, especially when you are repeating set ups such as in product photography.
I love my Autopole and the super clamp. How would you attach a boompole for audio recording to an autopole ?
I wouldn’t - a boom sticking out that far is going to be an issue
QUESTION - We have a monfroto 509 with a ball head. Would like unscrew the ball from the underside and thread that into a clamp and intern clamp to a bar at our mix position. Seeing optionfor a 1/4 20 mount but not the larger 3/8" studd sticking out of the Ball mount. Ideas?
They make adapters to change the thread size
Another use is some 1mafis clamps holing " square steel across 2 c-stands for hanging lighting...
True
I've use the super clamp on a C stand to mount a small 24" softbox to create clamshell lighting for my headshots. Is that weird? lol
Nope, I do the same thing
Looks like the super clamp is a good way to hang an overhead camera to some speedrail using the hex 3/8th plate, a flat head tripod head, and some safety chain back to the speedrail just in case.
Yes!
I use a super clamp on a tripod to make a makeshift boom arm for flatlay photography.. The clamp goes on the head via the hex and I use the clamping jaws to hold a monopod (with a ball head on it) horizontally and voila, I have my boom arm!!
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I have the profoto b2 set that I usually use with the octa softboxes. How do I mount them to a light stand when I cannot have assistants to handhold them?
How do you mount the B2s? They fit right onto the top of the light stand, maybe I’m not understanding you
great vids man - subbed :)
was wondering if you could do a vid on 5/8” types - some seem to be smooth, some have a fine alligator-type texture, some seem to have one flat side, some seem to be hexaganol - not sure if i’m right but i’m assuming this all has to do with not wanting slip or rotation and if so then, do all 5/8” baby have some sort of anti-rotation feature?
hopefully all this makes sense…
also, how do you ensure your gear doesn’t shift on any of the various threads-types employed? basically, just wondering about how you ensure your gear doesn’t shift on the threads or pins or whatever you have them attached to and if some techniques or gear or threads or 5/8” pins or receiving ends are better than others?
cheers man :)
Great idea - let me see what I can do.
@@DanielNortonPhotographer cheers man - chuck in another reply if you make it so I don’t miss it - peace
This is a great overview! My only concern that’s held me back from buying these is that I’ve read at least 10 reviews of people saying that their 037 stud has snapped/broken off. Damaging gear where the snapped screw is stuck inside the camera thread or worse.
It scares me that Manfrotto are using brass studs and screws instead of stronger steal. It doesn’t give me the confidence to mount my $5k camera with lens on it. What’s your opinion on this? Do you feel that the mounting plate (208hex) at 7:40 is much stronger and won’t ever snap because it has distributed weight from the plate? Even still, I find it odd that they made the thread out of brass.
Ideally you’re going to use a tripod head when mounting the camera. But the reason why brass is used is because if it was steel it might actually ruin the thread in things it threads into one of the metals needs to be softer otherwise you’re going to strip threads out
what clamp do you recommend using for a trifold reflector to a lightstand or tripod
You’ll likely need some kind of an arm, they make ones that are usually just called “reflector holders”
I wamt to use on my motorcycle but probably need to have two points to hold the selfie stick so that it doesnt vibrate off
Can that super clamp crush cheap light stands? I guess what I’m really asking is whether I should ditch the economy light stands?
I won’t say no, but you’d probably have to try pretty hard to crush an aluminum stand - now carbon fiber can certainly crack
The way you dramatically turned and looked at the ladder was a very muppet-ish movement. If only there was a muppet version of Daniel….lol.
My company actually painted bits of 2x4 with a fancy paint job and sent them out to us for when we needed to put a superclamp on the top of a ladder. The plastic tops on fiberglass ladders tend to not be solid. They called it a “hollow form spacer.”
Cool t-shirt
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Super Clamps are great. I prefer Cardellinis as they are much more versatile and no wedge needed.
Yes, but also bigger and more expensive 😊
I bought one for taking pictures in Paris. The place where photography was invented is very unfriendly to photographers!
No tripods near the Eiffel Tower my friend. But a super clamp with a quick release on a sign post is not noticed!
Have to have for location
For sure
Is the tripod head mounting plate essential? Is it risky to mount a tripod head on the stud? I was got a superclamp with just the stud and I was hoping it could replace a tripod sometimes.
The screw is fairly fragile and could break without the surface area of a plate. I won’t say I’ve never just screwed a camera to a stud, but be careful for sure.
@@DanielNortonPhotographer Thanks Daniel. I wasn't screwing the camera directly to the stud - it doesn't fit the stud I've got - but I tried taking the head off my tripod and screwing that to the stud, which seemed to work. Guess I'll buy the plate then, I'm a sucker for any aftermarket.
I don't recommend placing a camera directly on the stud that comes with 035. I did, and both the screw and the bottom of my camera ended up dusting. Lucky for me I managed to find a used part to make or replace my camera, if I would never be able to use it with a tripod again.
First rate. Cardellini clamps next?
Certainly on my list, those are great
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Thanks!
Great video Daniel - I love super-clamps - I have used them to rig a camera overhead on a background support stand; as counterweights (or if that's not enough, something to hang a sandbag on) and I regularly use them to hold my DIY diffusion screen frame, made from 21mm plastic waste pipe - seen here with some Savage heavyweight Translum on it owenlloydphotography.com/?p=3066 I didn't know about the camera base plate - just ordered one - and some hex pins as mine came with regular studs :) I sometimes think I like shooting in the studio just so I can mess around combining grip in new and obscure ways :P
Yes, grip is like half the fun
Sheeit, I wouldn't feel comfortable with my b1 one hanging like that. I drop one one before with the dome on it. it was a traumatic experience.
Got to trust your gear! The cameras more expensive than the light actually
Does the super clamp also take a 1/4" 20 screw so I could screw it to the quick release plate of my tripod in order to clamp my monopod so I have a make shift jib. Like in this video ua-cam.com/video/41OhwcX1Zio/v-deo.html
Yes! That could work, but be wary of putting too much weight on the mono pod that way it may not be able to support it
in your intro you forgot to mention the videos about frozen lands :)
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How Much?
About $30 links in the description
So if you ever tire of the photography gig, you could get a job at a hardware store . . . maybe that hardware store in Maryland where Julia Roberts works . . . ?
I would probably enjoy that. I do love hardware
Your videos are great, but wind up expensive for me as I must have whatever you talk about!
if DN says 30lbs..! thanks for the video
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Super Clamp, they sing Breakfast in America. good song.
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Why would you need these clamps when you have 51,200 ISO?
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Please can you recommend a clamp I can use to hold my 43” inches reflector to my light tripod?
Instead of clamp look for “reflector holder”
Daniel Norton Photographer Thank you