Here at the Lab, its certainly no secret that we like DIY solutions to gadget puzzles. Which is why we’re so pleased about the Nasty Clamp. The flash stand was originally a home-made project, but the maker, Matthew G. Monroe, was so inundated with requests from other photographers that he decided to go ahead and turn it into a business. The result is the Nasty Clamp, a rather useful little device for clamping flash-guns to almost anything.
You can see the DIY origins right away. The clamp is essentially a combination of a standard hardware store spring clamp along with a few sections of Loc-Line hosing, a modular tube system which also looks a lot like the legs of the Joby Gorillapod. The clamp can hold either a strobe (it’ll even support the rather large Nikon SB900, loaded with batteries) or a small camera, thanks to its standard tripod-mount machine screw.
Why would you want this? Because you can use it to put a light pretty much anywhere. A lighting stand is cheap, light and easy but it isn’t always convenient, and you aren’t always on flat ground. The irony here is that, at $50, the clamps cost so much that you might be tempted to go the DIY route and make your own.
Product page [Nasty Clamps via DIY Photography]
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