Interfit INT309 Wall Mounting Boom Arm

Really good piece of kit and use in our studio all the time togs love them and they save space in the studiosThanksReally good for tall studios and very strong got 6 at the time and only one as come apart due to silly tog pulling on it.

The most useful bit of kit I have ever bought! Well made, easy to use, don't know how I managed without it before. Holds 300w light and modifier at full extension.

Just superb, carries a Bowens 500R Pro head and 1M square softbox with no slippage or drooping after two years use. Saves a huge amount of space in a small studio.

Solid! Could be longer a bit

Works well, strong and sturdy!

great product see our review video below

Me faltan piezas, llegaron las piezas de todos mis productos sueltos y de ese no están completos ahora que revise las otras piezas veré si también me faltan de las otras, no se a donde reclamar

Oh My God.... I am trying to figure out how it is I never knew about these wall mounted boom arms before now, and furthermore, how I managed to live without them. I just finished renovating a home photo studio. Much of what I photograph are very active dogs, cats and children. I was always worried that something four legged or worse little children, would trip over wires or light stands and injure themselves (or the lights, or both). When I renovated the studio I was tempted to purchase a ceiling track and scissor pulley system but it wasn't quite right for my purposes and the way the studio is set up. So I did a fair amount of research and read the reviews here on Amazon and finally settled on a pair of these as well as a longer boom made by another company.These are fabulous, absolutely fabulous. I have them mounted midway up the left and right side walls. The main challenge was figuring out the best way to mount them since the mounting holes are further apart than the width of the studs (I should have just doubled up the studs when we had the walls open but I didn't think of it. If you are renovating and thinking of using the mounts, add an extra stud wherever you plan to mount this. What I did (thanks to one of the reviewers here who was very generous with his time and photos of how he mounted these) was to first mount a wood block onto the stud and then mount the boom onto the wood block. These things are sturdy mounted that way. They feel rock solid.You get almost a full 180 degree swing up and down and almost 180 degrees left and right. And of course, the arm telescopes out so there is not much that your lights wont reach and for those needs you can always use a tripod mounted light. For my purposes I think these will work almost a hundred percent of the time giving me full on front light, side lights and hair light. And with the longer arm from the other company I can even pull off some back lighting.When we did the renovation we had the outlets mounted up high on the walls as well as in the ceiling so there are no cords on the floor for babies, children, parents or four legged fur creatures to trip on. It is just such a relief to not have to be chronically worried about accidents.These arms are hollow so they are nice an light for easy maneuverability and yet they feel so so so solid with good adjusting hardware onboard as well. If I had one wish for future incarnations of the product it would be that they somehow found a way to air cushion the telescoping arm. Not sure whether its possible though.I will try to photograph the setup so you can see what I am referring to in this review. For now, suffice it to say that these are a MAJOR improvement in the studio and I don't know how I lived without them.BOTTOM LINE: Great boom arms. Get things off the floor and onto the wall. Perfect for small spaces as well.EDITED a few months later.... I still love these and for my purposes they are the best option, but they aren't quite as easy as I originally thought. Maneuvering them can at times be cumbersome and there are some angles that are difficult to achieve. I ended up purchasing an odd little extension bar that helps me achieve some angles that were difficult. I still really really wish these were air cushioned. I've added a couple of photos so you can get an idea of what they look like in use and how they look when the shoot is over and I fold them up.I still consider these an amazing purchase... they have freed up so much floor space in the studio and there are absolutely no wires to trip on. Still highly recommend

The July 2018 version of the Interfit INT309 articulating telescopic swinging wall mounted boom arm is no longer available in aluminum, which by the way does not scratch easily, because it is not painted, but now the seem to only be available in black, which is not what the product photo displayed when I bought this. The black is paint, and like all paint, it does scratch off. I bought two of these a year or so ago, and they are Aluminum poles, and I love these. They are just as functional as the Manfroto's, for 1/3 of the investment price. You can mount them upside down, or right side up, or from the ceiling, they are versatile.mthey hold the weight too, I maximized the specifications with my cameras. I also use them for lighting. When I mounted them, here's my trick, I aligned one side of the mount bracket holes onto the center of the wall stud with a pair of wood lags (pre drill a smaller pilot hole), then used a pair of Cobra DrillerToggle 367R heavy duty screw-in anchors for the drywall (1/4 inch X 3 inch) It needs all four corners secured for balance, but the two lags in the stud will hold the weight. The anchors aren't cheap, and if one snaps, Home Depot will replace it. I was sloppy and found the stud "center" with the nail method. Tap a Sheetrock nail (small nail) into the drywall onto the 2x4 wall stud, then pull it out, move it over slightly to the left (and afterwards, to the right) until you have determined the edge of the stud on both sides, in the middle is where you want to pre drill the pilot hole with a drill bit half the diameter of the lag, so the lag wood screw fits tight. Yeah, I said sloppy, if you have an accurate stud finder, go for it. So, would I use the Cobra anchors on all four corners of the mounting plate? Sure, but I didn't test these for the weight, however, each anchor supports 110 pounds, so, yeah, it shouldn't be a problem. Be sure to grab some washers for the lags and anchor bolts, you'll need them. Now, be sure to inspect your product once it arrives, make sure the bracket "box" that hold the extension poles is a tight, snug fit with little or no play from side to side. I had to send one back due to too much excessive space on each side of the pole (see comparison photo). The replacement was better, but still, I added an additional washer on each side of the main extension pole, inside of the mounting "box" to take up the slack, now it is perfect! I didn't have any problems with the smaller support pole with its accompanying plastic bushing spacers. I did not use the supplied mounting bolts. These Interfit Boom arms are truly awesome to have in the studio, plus, you can add an Impact (brand) Super Clamp to attach additional gadgets along the pole as well, those are like $20. Look for the Impact brand model number CA-102 3/8inch Rapid Adapter mounting accessory, or look at the Pergear TH3 tripod ball head camera mount for like under $20, solid product too! I have older heavy Sony HDR-FX1 high definition broadcast cameras, and have no problems at all. Great and very versatile boom arm, and the quality is still there for an unbeatable investment price. Love mine, and I will buy more for the other studio spaces. I just wish the Aluminum poles would at least be an option, I would pay $5 more to have them.

These are really big and quite large diameter aluminum tubing, similar to a bike frame... They look very high end and extend far, they also can move up and down really well.A lot of cheap light stands that you can get really cheap are thin steel with cheap plastic parts... these are not built like that, much better. I installed two in an office with big five bulb softboxes, and planning to put a third one up this weekend. I should really put up a photo of them when the set up is all done. They swing back and forth, up and down, and extend out surprisingly far. I was exited to see that I could likely us them for video, portraits, and then point them down and extend them to doing table top product photography! They are set up in a small office where it is a big pain in the butt to set up the bulky light stands. If I get anything later to make these even cooler it would be a big ball joint for attaching cameras to them, or maybe a special umbrella adjuster arm that I saw recently that would ad increased light angle control. Anyway, I have a bunch of cheap light stands that came with light sets, these wall mounts out by far the best build ones.

The stands that arrived looked slightly different from the ones pictured here, but they seemed to have some improvements over what I had expected and read about in reviews. Mine were all black, not silver like the picture. The collars were metal, though I've read reviews elsewhere that they were plastic. Maybe they updated the design, or maybe I didn't tap on them hard enough with my fingernail to tell. In the image posted for this product it's hard to see the stud at the end, and I thought it was a threadless 5/8" pin, but the pin is actually two sided with 1/4" threads on one side (like the bottom of your camera) and 3/8" threads on the other (like the bottom of your tripod head), and it can be mounted on the tip or either side of the arm. Very versatile.The stands are lighter than I would have expected, but they're very solid. The one near flaw is that the poles have a little wiggle room with loose washers between them and the bracket they're bolted to, so you get a little noise and play with side to side movement (easy fix, add more washers). However, past that wobble the movement from left to right is stiff but smooth. They can handle quite a bit of weight, I've got a mono light with a 16" beauty dish on one and it handles it well. I've also mounted a Canon SL1 with a 50mm F1.8 lens on the other for overhead shots in video, and it handles the weight well.The first thing that will probably fail with this product is the wall it's mounted to. Rather than anchoring this to drywall in my studio I anchored it to a large piece of mahogany, which was then very securely anchored to the studs behind the drywall.At this price these things are a no brainer for anyone with a dedicated studio space. Even if you have plenty of other stands. I was looking at $100+ C stands before I found these, and these will do everything I wanted the C stands to do, but for half the price and without taking up precious floor space.Edit: I've had a pair of these for about a month and one of the bolts on one of the arms locked up, I think the threads crossed or something. When I tried to remove the bolt to replace it I ended up breaking the flange that locks the arm, so I bought another arm. Heads up, don't over tighten the bolt. I think I had been putting too much pressure on the thing, since I got the replacement I've been very careful not to tighten it too much, and it's been good. This issue knocked a star off of my review, but it's still an item I think I'm always going to have.