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

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.

Excellent product ever

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.

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.

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.

These brackets hold a speedlight quite securely if you use a screwdriver to tighten the screw on the jaws. I was unable to rely on "hand tight" assembly but the screws are slotted. They are just a bit small. The design provides plenty of flexibility for aiming your light and umbrella. The studs provided are machined - not cast - aluminum. They produce a nice, smooth pivoting motion during aiming. For an aluminum bracket of this quality you really can't beat the price. I bought four.

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.

Best thing I can say for these is that they work just as intended. However, it seems to me whoever designed these never actually used them. The tiny screw that tightens the foot to secure the flash can't be tightened enough with your fingers to hold the flash in. I found out the hard way as my flash crashed to the floor 4 feet down. I got lucky, it wan't damaged. Lesson learned. But you really need to harf down on these screws with a screwdriver. Yeah, every photographer brings a hefty screwdriver on his shoots. Well, not. so that's a major downer. When secured properly, your flash is safe. Then there's the swivel to point your umbrella up or down. It has some detents meant to hold it in incremental positions. Well, they are not very deep, and don't work well at all. You really need to harf down on the adjustment screw to hold the flash and umbrella in position. And then you're not really sure it's actually going to hold without harfing some more. A bigger handle for the adjustment would be good, as well as better defined detents. With all the pressure needed to apply to secure it, I'm not sure the longevity of these units. All in all, the unit works as it should. Would I purchase them again. Emphatic No. Would I recommend? If you don't want to spend much, maybe be able to use them for a few gigs before they fail, have to carry a hefty screwdriver with you, then ok, these are for you.