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

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.

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.

These are pretty good. Solid. Metal. The only plastic is the knurls, which is not unreasonable. Works fine on my inverted monopod which I use as a light stand. Supports my speedlights just fine. Others have mentioned the alignment, which is off a little. That's true. With my speedlight in the clamp, and the clamp tightened down firmly, it was maybe 15-20degrees off. Instead of pointing directly into the umbrella, it's pointing off center a bit. I cut a bit of an old piece of credit card to fit over the top mounting screw and then added one layer of 3x5 index card and those two together meant the hotshoe/clamp tightened down exactly in line. Could've used washers, excepting I didn't want to make a special trip just for that.

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

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.

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.

Does the job. A bit clunky.