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rongwam wrote:
I need a good Boom arm that I will use with my Avenger C-stand for both studio portraiture and location photo shoots. Any recommendations? Thanks.
C stands are designed for modifiers, and do not have the footprint or load bearing to support a boom of any kind. If you just need a foot of clearance from the top-of-stand, then a short grip arm is safe enough:
Otherwise, you must budget for a much heavier rig to safely suspend a fixture at an interesting distance. The setup below is lofting a low-weight light/modifer combo of 6 lbs @ 7'. The steel junior roller (my small one) must support the light assembly (6 lbs), the Avenger D650 boom (15 lbs), and the counterweighting (30 lbs) for a total of 51 lbs. The stand itself weighs 25 lbs. C stands claim to support 25 lbs—but don't ask me to sit under a boom it's supporting!
Note the rig is perfectly balanced with no lateral stress on the stand. The counterweighting requirement for safe boom usage is a major part of the total mass on the stand. Outdoors and location demands more overspec'ing of your support due to wind, terrain and bumping incidents.
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