I have a small army of umbrella mounts, like this one which is $5 ... http://www.amazon.com/Neewer-Professional-Universal-Speedlite-Umbrella/dp/B00JJJR7PY
This particular one is extra useful because the shoe can be unscrewed and a wireless trigger can be screwed on instead. That saves you some height inside smaller softboxes. Note that some of the parts are plastic and the umbrella hole lets an umbrella wobble because of crappy machining. If you need better quality, decent umbrella adapters are $20. If you want super-simple, you can screw some bare hotshoes right onto the 1/4-20 stud on top of the lightstand. Doesn't give you any adjustability though. I much prefer the umbrella mount. Bare hotshoes come in a poly bag for a few bucks each. You can bolt them onto binder clips or pieces of wood or whatever your inventive mind can come up with. :-) On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently picked up a YN560-IV speedlight, and it is awesome. I'm thinking > of picking up a couple more to use as catch and/or fill lights in studio > work. Does anyone have recommendations for good, but inexpensive mounts for > using speedlights on light stands? > > Basically either a 1/4-20 to hot shoe or 5/8 stud to hot shoe adapter? > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
