using a super clamp as a camera support

[bill_rundell1]

I just purchased a Bogen super clamp - partly for studio work

but also with the idea of using it as a camera stabilizer

instead of lugging a tripod.

I have two small tripod/monopod heads (Bogen 3/8"-16 thread)

that would work well here.

 

It seems the accepted way to do this is to use

the standard stud; an alternative is to use a 3/8" - 1/4"

reversible stud and mount the head onto the clamp using

the 1/4" threaded hole on the top.

However, both these options have the head suspended giraffe-like

nearly 2" above the clamp on a brass stud rather than almost

flush as you would want.

 

Clumsy, but also takes up more room in the gadget bag

and leaves the camera with a long lens looking precarious.

There has to be a better way ....

There are 5 pre-drilled holes on the top face of the clamp -

3 threaded and 2 that go all the way through and look

like they should take an accessory but I don't see any such

object on the Bogen site or from any of the usual sources

such as Adorama or B&H.

 

Has anyone solved this issue?

[akajohndoe]

You want a Bogen 2934 Head Mounting Plate. I have pictures of it and the Bogen Super Clamp on my website:

 

http://photo.akajohndoe.com/tools.htm

[akajohndoe]

I just looked on B&H and it looks like the Bogen 208 may be the newer model of the Bogen 2934

[bill_rundell1]

Thanks D N - that's precisely what I was looking for!

[ellis_vener_photography]

I sometimes use a Superclamp with short reversible stud with a Leica large tabletop tripod head. The heaviest load I've mounted to it is a D3 and a 70-200mm f/2.8G (with a Pocketwizard MultiMAX transceiver as a remote camera), but it would probably hold a D3 and a 300mm f/2.8.

[akajohndoe]

I mount an Arca-Swiss B1 ball head onto it. I think the limiting factor on what it will hold/support is really more a function of what the clamp is clamped onto.