Something for the weekend, sir? I have just the thing, and it’s a curious cross between a homemade hack and a precision engineered, purchasable piece of kit.
The Kacey Pole Adapter (or MetalHead, as it has been dubbed by Stobist’s David Hobby) is a small aluminum spigot milled to have a female thread that will marry the thread of a standard broomstick or, better still, a telescopic painters’ pole. The other end of the spigot features a 5/8″ male stud (please, no snickering), which is the standard mount for photo lighting stands.
Why would you want it? Because it means you can pick up pretty much any cheap pole from a hardware store and turn it into a lighting stand. The painters pole version seen in the picture will let you elevate your lighting to a whole new level (excuse the pun — it’s Friday), taking your strobe far enough away to emulate a hard light source like the midday sun, or with the right softening, a rather flattering, wraparound, top-down light.
The MetalHead costs just $19, which is on a par with this kind of equipment. You can grab it from MPEX or pay a little more to get it from the manufacturer.
MetalHead Makes Your Home Depot Boom More Functional, Less Embarrassing [Strobist]
The LongArm and MetalHead – Taking Your Speedlite To New Heights [PixSylAted]
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