K&F CONCEPT 10ft/3.05m Stainless Steel Heavy Duty Light Stand: C-Stand with Universal Casters, Sandbag & Adjustable Legs for Softboxes, Strobes & Photography Lighting

Understand comes with wheels, which is super handy, especially for flat floor and or studio use. It does seem to hold a good amount of weight.I was able to put my aperture nova 300 on it and it did not have any problems. I do not believe this is made of steel but rather aluminum.So it's fairly lightweight, but also feels a bit flimsier than normal stands. The caster wheels were as expected and roll around smoothly and swivel when moved and pushed. My only real complaint with the stand is that the build quality is a bit on the cheaper side, for example, in the locks for the legs, sometimes they get stuck and you have to put the stand at just a right angle to be able to pull the locks out of their grooves. The support arms that hold the legs down locked also feel a little bit lightweight, which again will probably hold for the job.But don't seem like the hold up to much abuse. Aside from potential build quality issues.I think for the price.It's a great value and will hold just about most things you throw on a regular seat stand with the added benefit of having wheels. Overall, if you're not going to be beating your stand up or throwing it in the back of a truck, I can recommend this stand.

Be sure to unlock ALL the legs before trying to pull down the legs otherwise it won’t work! Also beware that the pole extensions are spring loaded and might be compressed and pop up as soon as you loosen the clamp!

Otherwise super simple to setup and lock everything into place. Comes with a set of smooth rolling locking wheels.

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Overall happy with this light stand from K&F

Foldable tripod equipped with 3 swivel wheels that allow 360° rotation, made of stainless steel that can support up to 30 kg of load, with an adjustable height of 130-330 cm and can be folded up to 113.2 cm, designed to place professional photography and filming equipment, in my opinion mainly bulbs and/or flashes of great power and volume with their corresponding accessories...

After trying it, I appreciate it being sturdy and with very decent finishes, it adjusts the height easily and although I wouldn't use it with confidence at its maximum height, if it seems safe enough for a height of 250 cm... Its wheels turn well and it can be easily handled by gripping the bar at half height, it may not have the same quality as other much more expensive tripods, but I see it as very useful for semi-professional use for a price that in my opinion is very good for what it offers us...

This support with wheels is of great quality and practical to use, it allows me to fix my LED projector and thus move it easily according to my needs

There are a few issues worth addressing up front. First and foremost, this tripod is not 10.5 feet tall as advertised—it measures exactly 10 feet from the ground to the tip. The second issue is with the castings: there is a small amount of flashing that rubs against the legs as they extend, which makes opening and closing them a bit more difficult than it should be. This is easily corrected with a quick touch-up using a file or grinder, but it's something that really should have been addressed at the factory. Finally, the locking pins can feel a bit clunky when engaging and disengaging.

That said, the tripod is extremely well-built with heavy-duty castings and a lot of attention paid to the locking knobs and structural supports. It easily handles significant weight and feels stable at all times. The tripod base is especially useful for large-scale installations where we need laser lines at higher elevations, and it significantly reduces our setup time. We also use it extensively for in-house product photography, where the wide range of height adjustment is perfect for positioning lights and diffusers.

The locking mechanisms are robust and hold everything securely in place. The tubing is stainless steel rather than aluminium, which adds meaningful stability and durability. The trade-off is a bit of extra weight, but that hasn't been an issue in practice.

Even with its quirks, this is an excellent piece of kit. Given how solidly it's built, I don't anticipate ever needing to replace it.

When I shoot, for lighting, I frequently use what is often called “C Stand” in the jargon, I have 5 or 6, it's indestructible, stable and unquestionable!
And now I have just discovered that K&F, which is no longer present in the photo/video world, has just released a wheeled version for a similar price!
I must admit that it takes a little help to unfold/fold it without leaving a finger (well that leaves 10 tries;)) but once you get the hang of it it's royal!
It is as heavy and bulky as a normal C Stand but in addition it is mounted on wheels making it easy to move without effort!
The 3 wheels make it very stable and they are of course all equipped with a brake allowing it to be left in place once installed!
I am thinking of buying more because I adopted it immediately and being able to move it easily without having to carry it is a big plus, especially for my daughter who sometimes plays the role of my frail assistant. Once installed, with the brakes on, it plays exactly the same role as a normal foot.
I am won over and can only advise him!

Once assembled and sited this stand works well. It’s the assembling bit that has caused me issues. I doubt whether there could be a more awkward way of releasing the legs! Each leg has a pin which can only be moved by a finger and thumb-one each side of the leg. Once all three are in the release position then the locking knob on the centre tube can be unscrewed. I would have expected that as you pull one leg down they would all automatically click into their locked position. Ah… nothing that simple for K&F Concept; each pin then has to be manually moved into its original position. Although secure, none of them sit straight. See attached photo of one of them.

The headline says this stand is 100% stainless steel. It isn’t-some of it is, but by no means all. There is a bag included in the box, I thought it would be a storage bag for the stand. It isn’t-it’s for accessories, but nothing from the stand will fit in it, unless you detach the wheels each time it’s used and use it for them.

I’ll only be using this stand indoors, so it’s unlikely that I’ll need it at full extension. I use sandbags to make sure rigs don’t move, not really necessary with this unit indoors but at full reach with a medium/heavy load I’d imagine it would be essential.

Each of the extension pieces is spring loaded, but only for the first couple of inches. I don’t know why-it surprised me the first time it happened!

Although I have gripes about this stand they’re all about the way the it’s erected. Get past those niggles and you have a strong, well made durable stand that will last for years. The price also helps you to live with these niggles, the only stands that are on a par with this one from K&F Concepts cost many times the price.

This "heavy duty" light stand from brand K&F CONCEPT was a choice I made to handle some of my larger in-studio lighting gear, and I decided to try out this brand because I generally trust them for a lot of other photography and video related items. I have been moderately pleased so far, with a small exception...

The stand comes in at 10.5 feet tall (or 320cm) when fully extended, and thanks to the width of its legs, is certainly a lofty ability it can actually handle, though I probably would not heft anything too heavy up that high on this stand regardless of its claim "on paper" as the taller it gets, like any stand, the more flimsy it gets. But it can easily handle up to about 6.5-7 feet with ease, probably a bit higher. Using this at an indoor studio, it's unlikely most lighting gear would need to be raised any higher than this anyway, but it's nice to be able to; most of my other tripods can probably handle 5-6 feet at the very most, before concern sets in.

The stand comes with roller wheels or "casters" making the entire unit very manoeuvrable, if not exactly portable. This really isn't the kind of stand you would take with you on too many outdoor photo shoots, and is ideally designed for an indoor studio setting when and where you want to adjust lighting angle on the fly. This stand excels at this, offering clamps to hold the stand in place when not in motion. Which brings me to the caveat; the issue I had was with the wheels themselves. Each side of the wheel is bolted together with two circular plastic plates on either side, which apparently provide the necessary pressure to keep the wheels from becoming unstable...

Sadly, and much to my frustration, one of the wheels arrived with broken plastic plate straight out-of-box. Fortunately, its centre-hole where the bolt slides through was still intact, so it keeps the wheel from wobbling still. But it shows that there is a significant issue with this stand, and requires quality control. I wanted to love this stand, because for all other intents and purposes, it is quite solid.

There was another matter of the spring-loaded "pins" that pop into place when the stand hold it flat or allow it to pop into place when fully extended, or be relocated during folding the stand when not in use. This was definitely another oddity, but I am not so concerned about those, since they are a bit difficult to navigate, but they do the job intended, albeit in peculiar fashion.

That said, if the plastic on one of these wheels had been broken in any other way other than it was, it would have left the wheel unstable, making the entire tripod unusable from the start. If this had somehow broke during use, it might have toppled my entire lighting setup, causing even more damage to my equipment. But the fact that this occurred somehow beforehand; between the point-of-sale and arrival, only shows that it cannot handle travel, and can quite easily be damaged.

It is winter time presently, so I have to wonder if this has something to do with cold temperatures during transit. Either way, these circular plates should, in my opinion, been made out of metal, like the rest of the tripod, and were a poor design choice addition, considering the overall budget point. Still, I will crazy glue the piece back on, re-install the wheel and hope it does not crack again; especially in any other part of the plastic plate. The tripod itself is solid, and parts of the frame have the trademark K&F CONCEPT orange, which gives it a unique flair.

I hesitantly give this 4 stars, but it really should be 3 for the seemingly small issue that could potentially have significant repercussions. So I caution anyone ordering this to potentially weigh in on your own thoughts about the pros and cons, and your personal studio requirements.