KAM KR-KIT LIGHTING STAND Demonstration

0:00 I'm going to pause the camera and we'll have a look

Alright folks, behind me I've got a nice bit of a stand from a company called Cam and at the moment I've got Ryan who is over there. Say hello Ryan. Say hello! Hello! What are you playing? Right, okay. Right, I'm going to pause the camera and we'll have a look. Right, first off, there you go. There's one of the tripods. Other side's exactly the same. And then we've got that all the way across leading to the other tripod. So what I'll do, I'll pull it apart. And I'll show you how it fits together in the centre just there. Right, now first off for the centre, hey right, hint down a little bit, just a tiny bit. For the centre, you've got these guys here. What I'm going to do is show you how you fit them there, just a little bit, yeah? Right, what you're looking at now is the end of one of the sections and these bits here, I'm going to fit one in there, like that, one in there, and one in there.

Now this is sort of very self-explanatory. Just pause the camera again. Right, there we go. And that fits in there like that. Hang on. Just like that. But that's not it yet. Right, I've also got three holes. One, two and three. One there, one and one there. So, these guys through there. One, two, three. Okay, now you... You get some washers and some locking nuts. But just for this demonstration, I'm going to use these guys. These are called wing nuts. So it's got like little wings on them. Yeah, right, hold on a second. Right, so I'm going to put that on there. Now logically you should use this guy here, the locking nut, because that will not... Once you screw that in, Basically, what is a locking nut? Well, at the top here you've got a thin layer of plastic and what happens is as you screw that in, the plastic almost tightens itself so you will need two spanners to go either side. But anyway, just for this demonstration I am going to put this on instead. I'll just pause the camera. Right, so if we look at this area now, in a sense we've got six areas where it's attached. Top and there.

2:46 Tripod, I've got a couple

So two, four, six, making it absolutely solid. And you'll see in a minute exactly how solid it is. So right, we're going to set it up now on the two tripods. Right, before I show you the tripod, I've got a couple of these as well. And you'll notice that. And you'll notice the size and this and a hole in the bottom. Well, they've all got quite good reasons. All right, if we take a look at the cross section again you'll see those long flat metal strips. Now first of all make sure when you put the two units together the flat metal strips are same positions now also there's that bit there watch that can go into there like that see but the beauty about something like this You don't have to have that one in the end one and the same the other side. You could maybe have this one, I don't know, perhaps there. So in other words, the tripods themselves are a bit closer together but you've got that area over there to put some lights on as well or the next one along or the next one along. Ideally you need to keep it symmetrical. You don't have to keep it symmetrical but then again it's highly advisable because it means then

5:17 First of all, I must explain, don't do what I did

You've got weight stability on either side, let's say. Right, here we go. So you can see two tripods piece across. Now like I said earlier, you could have the tripods there or even there, but just make sure it is symmetrical. Right, bit of a party trick now. Right, Ryan, come over here. Wait, but he does weigh about 13 stone, so... Right, it's from Cam and it's the lighting stand. And I'll tell you what, that is... ...exceptionally strong. So if you're going to be bunging a couple of lights on there... Well, no. First of all, I must explain, don't do what I did. It's rather silly. Also, I've got to show you this. Hold on. Right, a couple of things. Once you've set the tripod legs up, make sure you don't get something like this. Can you see it wobbling there? You need to make sure that you have got 90 degree angles full stop. Now also...

If I just move around here so I can see what I'm doing. See that leg there poking out? Well, that is directly below the cross section itself. So if we have a look, that's there going across in that direction. And then also then you've got the other two legs going either side and you need to keep the other side the same as well. Basically what it means is that it's going to be more stable. If you start doing, say, something like this. Let me just do that. And move that around there like that. Then it's not going to be so stable. It just means that everything's symmetrical and it's... Oh, Ella's coming now. Say hello, Ella! Hello! Everything's going to be more stable. Hello! You look like something the cat's just dragged in. Right, at the top there as well, you've got that.

Well, you can fit another wing nut on there just to secure that down. Like so. There you go. Right, there you go. A bit of a punk style video on this guy here. I will be doing more in the future. Right, setup time. I don't know. Less than five minutes really. But if you're going to chuck it together really quickly then it's advisable you make sure everything's solid because at the end of the day two major factors. One, Thank you for watching.

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