The small change of a studio budget is generally spent on instant coffee and cheap biscuits - a deadly mistake as it ends up being the photographer who has to eat and drink the stuff. A wet week day, no bookings, a cup of Pablo and a dried out Nice biscuit...not a cheering prospect.
Better to invest in accessories. If the budget will not stretch to a new set of Profoto studio lights with full range of light shapers think of getting some of he little KUPO light sand adapters and attachments.
This one converts a 3/8" male thread to a 1/4" male thread so you can put a speed light shoe on the top of many standard light stands.
This one screws onto a tripod - either the 3/8" of the bare legs or the 1/4" of the ball head -and lets you mount a studio mono block on it.
Some stands have a large 1/2" hole in the top - and some Manfrotto adapters have the same thing - this drops in there to let you mount the studio mono block.
Here it is with the plastic covers fitted - not absolutely necessary, but nice.
Here we move into heftier support - the 1/2" shaft will support big flashes and the 1/2" threaded end will capture bigger lights or monitors.
Bigger is better, as a certain class of advertisement would lead us to believe...
1/2" socket and strong screw clamp eventually becomes 1/2" threaded.
And lastly, a Grordbort armoured trocanter for letting excess gas out of dragons and the heavier sort of mammals. Steel tipped for easier penetration. A Manfrotto part - imaginative company, Manfrotto...
