Simple Flash Stand

A printable flash stand/foot with a hot shoe mount. Also incorporates a hole to accommodate the locking pin on Nikon and Canon flash units.

A friend of mine that on the train realized that he had forgotten his flash stand asked if I had one he could borrow, which I didn't, but I designed and printed him one instead before he had managed to arrive in Stockholm to pick it up :-)

Prints perfectly without support if your printer bridges reasonably well, print top-side down to get the hot-shoe mount as clean as possible.

Three versions included:
- Printed thread (added a printed 1/4-20" tripod thread, works great!)
- Hexnut (added a recess for inserting a 1/4-20" hex nut)
- Plain (just a plain stand without a tripod mount)

I printed this with a 1.2mm perimeter, top and bottom, and 30% infill.

I used a 2,5mm drill to clean up the locking hole.

Photo by Björn Larsson, www.bjornlarsson.se

First published in 2016 over at YouMagine