FOTYRIG Camera Speedlite Flash Stand Bracket Umbrella Mount Holder Shoe Mount Compatible with Nikon Pentax Olympus Nissin Metz and Other Speedlite Flashes E Type-2 Pack

Great value for the price. Everything is metal, so it hold my heavier umbrella and soft box in place.

This is much better quality manufacture than would be evident from the price. Its made of metal with a matte/crinkly powder coating (think classic Nikon ED lenses). The cylindrical female tripod screw is good, and it can be removed if your stands already have the cylinder. The flash cold shoe has a clamping action, with springs. You can tighten it against your flash, or trigger. This is especially helpful if you have a trigger like the Yonguo 603 v1, which didn't have a screwdown for its hotshoe mount. On this mount you don't have to worry, you can tighten the clamp to the trigger and therefore it stays nice and steady.The umbrella hole and screw is fine. At first I wished they'd used a bigger thumb screw, later I realized that with hollow umbrella shafts you might end up tightening it too much. So I'm not complaining.The angle adjustment is detented. You have to loosen the screw a decent amount to overcome the friction/click action of the hinge. This means that even if the screw gets loose, or isn't tightened too much to begin with, the weight of the flash and umbrella won't cause the whole thing to tilt over.All in all, I'm very happy with this purchase. For the price (actually, regardless of the price) the quality of the mount is very good.

I have found these useful and for the most part solid. The round cold shoe fastener is in fact metal, but the elbow fastener and the light stand fastener are plastic with a metal insert. A pair of these arrived with molding cracks on the elbow fasteners, but Amazon quickly replaced the pair with a good set. The hot shoe clamp screw is finicky and quite small making it difficult to snugly secure a speed light hot shoe without using a screwdriver. The umbrella securing screws are a good size and easy to use. So far, the light stand fastening screws have not stripped out the threads inside the mount, unlike a competitors parts. Overall, I wish the brackets were lighter as they are quite heavy, perhaps necessarily so.

They're pretty tough, especially given the price for two. To be honest, I've long since stopped babying these. I freely toss them around now, and don't care if, say, the tripod falls over. Definitely can handle moderate abuse.This was able to easily hold a Godox 860II, which is a pretty heavy speedlight, and a 3 foot softbox, hanging at a 45* angle from a boom arm. Solid.The only potential negative worth sharing is that the screw at the top to loosen the hotshoe CAN be accidentally(?) removed, but it would honestly take negligence to reach that point. I only removed it to test the extremes, and I can imagine someone having issues re-assembling due to the springs. This is a non-issue, because at full extension, the holder is already FAR beyond the width of a hotshoe--you'll SEE you've gone too far long before you actually remove the screw.

I like these flash mounts. I use them on my light stands for umbrellas and soft box lights. It's nice that they gave me adapters in case my light stand didn't accomodate the mounts. My stands work perfectly without the adapters but it looks like these could even be fastened to a standard camera tripod with the threaded barrel connectors.BTW, the adapters are reversable with two different thread sizes for a variety of stand/tripod connections. These mounts appear to be made of metal... they feel heavier than aluminum, but in any case they are very sturdy. You can't miss with these if you want to use a flash in your umbrella lights. If I had any complaint, it would be that they use a knurled screw in two places that required a screwdriver to loosen/tighten. In two other joints they used a plastic knob for tightening... those work great, I wish they had used plastic knobs all around rather than half and half. I will probably try to find plastic knobs for the two places they didn't use them. Overall... I'm really happy with these mounts.

I use these when I need to hold a speedlight for fill light shooting a sport team, very secure, and well made, they work great.

Admito que me SORPRENDIO! este productoHace el trabajo perfecto.Sostiene firmemente flash y sombrilla sin problemas y puedes inclinarlo y rotarlo y montarlo en cualquier tripode o pedestal esta muy bien pensado y fabricado.ME ENCANTA QUE SE DESMONTA COMPLETO DANDOTE MUCHAS MAS POSIBILIDADES DE USO.Muy buena calidad y tienen e tamaño perfecto parecen mas grande en la imagen de lo que en vdd es.Solo cuidado con los "tornillos platiados" de la zapata del cabezal del flash. porque tiene esprines y pueden salir volando y son pequeños (los esprines) fuera de eso perfecto.