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 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.

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 ] I really can’t find any information about where the name came from. I was told by an instructor of mine in school that it was a brand name, Century. But I can’t find any info on that either. There are several brands that make C Stands. I have a wild assortment of these that I’ve collected over 30 years made by all kinds of different companies. Matthews Studio Equipment (2022-07-26). "20" C+Stand w/Spring Loaded Turtle Base, includes Grip Head & Arm". matthewsgrip . Retrieved 2019-11-06. 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.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. 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. Brown, Blain (2002). Cinematography: imagemaking for cinematographers, directors and videographers. Focal Press. p.252. ISBN 0-240-80500-3.

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 Matthews Studio Equipment (2022-07-26). "BABY STANDS". Matthews Studio Equipment . Retrieved 2022-07-26.They are used to rig anything and everything you can think of – fill cards, lights, flags, silks, scrims, diffusion panels, you get the idea. They are not commonly used to rig cameras though. a b Matthews Studio Equipment (2022-07-26). "40" C+Stand Spring Loaded Turtle Base". matthewsgrip . Retrieved 2019-11-06. 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.