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Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: OhioHead on June 16, 2015, 04:43:24 PM
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Silly question......photo equipment uses "thick" thread and audio equipment used a fine thread, looking for a converter.......
LumoPro stand, LumoPro adopter (top of stand) holds my Shure shock mount holding mic bar (it goes to eleven), I can screw the mount 1 or 2 threads down but then I stop......would love for my shock mount to be more secure.
Local camera shop could not help me & have not looked @ B & H yet......help me narrow down my search, please.
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It's a very common adapter. B&H can help you and if you call they'll likely know exactly what you want from them. I have a compact photo tripod I use for portable audio and had to get the adapter to make the conversion. The most common one they have is two parts so it's best to call them. I forget the dimensions of the two but they know it.
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Cameras typically use 1/4 inch
"European" accessories use 3/8 inch
US or typical mic thread is 5/8
B and H has adapter for all these. Get a few 5/8 lock nuts too, just in case.
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Thank you both for your feedback!
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1/4-20
3/8-16
5/8-27 (awkward one)
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Anyone know were the awkward US standard originated? Just seems a poor mechanical engineering choice, even for old big & heavy studio microphones: overly fat and heavy diameter but with a delicate, more easily cross-threaded fine pitch. I'd think the US standard would be the good old "any hardware-store" standard 3/8"-16 and the European standard would be metric.
It just don't make no sense.