PHOCUS Super Clamp with Standard 5/8" Stud, Ratchet Handle

This is working well to hold the very heavy Godox AD600 on the bottom half of the stand while using the extension head for the flash. Adjusting the flash with the whole 6.5 pound unit at the top of the stand is a lot of work, makes the stand unsteady. I hated using the flash because of it. Having the battery portion held at the bottom also makes it a nice counter weight for the modifier. This has been a very useful purchase.

This clamp was perfect for my PTZ rig used as the high position camera that provides an overhead closeup of the OR table of procedures we record or transmit live in our hospital. I used the top of an old light stand with a 1/4-20 stud as the arm, screwed it into this clamp and used an adjustable C-stand elbow at the other end. I used the 1/4-20 stud that came with the clamp as the mount for the JVC PTZ camera. Love this clamp–it's beefy and secure with an adjustability that allows it to be used with my larger light stands.

Great clamps for expanding your video and photography studio and set. Worth every penny.

Works as it should and is sturdy and good overall quality.

This thing is extremely sturdy. I'm honestly surprised it wasn't more expensive now having it here in my hands. Look no further.

Great quality and very handy for flexible mounting of lighting.

These are 90% as good as a manfrotto super clamp, and that is good enough. It's a super clamp. It clamps. It is secure, takes the same studs, and for as many of these are required to have around the studio, being able to buy more for the money pays off.

I have purchased 10+ Manfrotto grips in the past and these do the job! The handle is actually much more pleasant to use with this brand. The ONLY flaw I have seen so far is that if you tighten these too much, the plastic layer of the angled grip surface will come off of the grip and stick to the surface of the pole. You can easily snap it back in or use a little super glue to fix the issue permanently. I have purchased about 8 of these and this has happened 1-2 times. UPDATE: I have to dock a couple stars for an issue I noticed. (ai should have rated this thing at 4.5 first, now its about 3.7 Stars) When using the more reliable hexagon pins, (as depicted in my last photo) there is not enough clearance inside the clamp for a secure fit. You can see how much more space there is inside around the edges for the hexagon part of the pin to sit. The next two photos show a clear example of how the pin completely sits inside the manfrotto, whereas the Phocus leaves it hanging out. To add insult to injury, the push pin doesn't lock in this situation- so you can pull the entire thing out with enough force - removing the important redundancy of the safety push pin. This issue is only on 1/2 of the device as the clamp itself holds up fine, and its only for hexagon pins, but its a glaring issue that I want to point out as an owner of several of both the Phocus and Manfrotto models.

Way cheaper than the camera stores and these are a must have for any studio space.

Does the job.