Kupo Baby Receiver Adapter, 5/8" Locking Receiver with 3/8-16 Male Thread for Mounting Cameras and Accessories on Light Stands (KG004611)

I bought my daughter an expensive music stand for home for her middle school french horn practice. I had dreams of raising a musical prodigy, I guess, lol. Anyway, she has now finished her junior year, and the stand hasn't been used in probably 3 years. So I took the music stand back to convert it into a photography lighting stand for my studio strobes. I took off the sheet music holder tray and was just left with the center post. I saw that the description stated this was a 5/8" receiver, so I ordered it off, hoping for the best. Just received it today and it works great! It was a pretty tight fit onto the center post at 5/8" but it fits very snugly. I slid it all the way down and applied the tightening knob, not to keep it on the post, but to keep it from rotating, really. Now with the 1/4" receiver at the top, I can add a small ballhead or cold shoe and I am all set! Love the price on this item, the exacting tolerances for fit and that it delivers the very simple thing it promises. Would that the rest of the photo things I buy be the same. hanks, Kupo, gives me much more confidence in the Kupo line!

If you are just mounting a light-weight item, this may be perfect for you. I was mounting a gimbal, camera, monitor, focus unit, and batteries which proved too heavy for the 1/4-20 post to handle. The post bent over and then broke when I tried to bend it back in place.I don't blame this adapter. My setup was too heavy for it. And I should have had 1/4-20 disks screwed over the post to protect it top to bottom.The workmanship of this adapter is excellent. It is light. I like the spring on the turn knob - although I ended up losing it for a while when I unscrewed the knob too far. It shot out, but I found it the next day.

This Kupo 5/8" receiver with 3/8" threaded stud is exactly what you need to mount a tripod head (and camera) on the 5/8" extension arm of a C Stand or a baby pin. It will receive a standard 3/8" threaded tripod head without the 1/4"-3/8" thread adapter some use, making it a stronger and more secure. The receiver is very well made. I would use a safety cord anytime you mount or hang a camera to help ensure it does not accidentally fall and get damaged.

The tightening knob works great, however there's not a lot of material for it to bite on. You're about 1.5 turns away from the knob coming out when the screw is far enough out to allow the receiver to fit on a stand or other hardware.

This is a great and versatile tool. I bought it to make a small mobile laptop stand to tether my laptop to while on locations, then I realized this is also the same threading as my tripod and monopod heads. Allowing me to rig overhead rigs for product photography or set up an extra camera when I go shoot landscapes without investing into another tripod.

A few months ago I lost the mount to my Chauvet light. The yoke was still in great shape so I looked all over for a cheap solution to mount it on a c stand. I came across this from Kupo and since my first order I have bought several. They are well built and will hold up to the job at hand.

I purchased this to use with the kupo camera mount or by itself using the camera tripod screw on a camera or camcoder. Either way you get a tight fit to the boom arm and any angle you choose

These are great, quality is solid, and the peace of mind I get when flying my camera for overhead shots is well worth the cost.Previously, I would just use the grip head with a spigot, being these slip right on the 40" C Stand arm then screws directly on the ballhead makes everything feel more secure.