From the course: Video Gear: Support & Grip

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Mounting with clamps

Mounting with clamps

- Alright, Rich, so we've talked about a wide variety of different mounting options for pipe and other things. But one of the cool things I want to talk about next is the traditional clamp, but with some other options attached to the clamp, and I have this really cool option right here. This is a gooseneck. - Yeah, it's a bendable neck. - Just like that. This is kind of like a gooseneck like you'd see on a microphone, on a podium, or something like that, and the cool thing about this is that it lets you position the camera in really precise and unique angles. Now, the only downside of a gooseneck, and I haven't been using this one long enough, is that goosenecks sometimes tend to wear out, but this one, I think, is going to stand up pretty well, because it's really heavy duty. You know, a good measure of a good gooseneck is how hard it is to initially bend. - Yeah. - If it's really hard to bend to begin with, it's probably going to last a while. - Yeah, and this one just has a…

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