Studio column stand

[Ales']

I want to buy a studio stand, to have it like amultiporpous piece if furniture. To hold projector, to use with my tlr or 4x5/8x10 cameras for close-up photo without having to walk around my berlebach. For prints and negatives/slide "reproduction". I can buy for 150 euro shipping included ministatic version, or normal 2.40m for 300-500€,iff ministatic weights only 15kg but have unlockable wheels, normal studio column weights 50-70kg. I have new pavement, can ceramics be damaged with large studio stand, stay have a pedal to lift it when moving around, what I fear is hearing handmade plates cracking every time I move it,any one had expired using it on delicate pavement?

 

[koraks]

It might help if you provide more details on the equipment you're looking at. For instance some links to sales pages of the stands you're talking about would be nice, and/or some photos.

What does the seller say when you ask them these questions?

 

[Philippe-Georges]

I have a LINHOF studio stand, a monopod on a triangle shaped foot on wheels. There are two removable columns that can be cracked out over 2 meters high and be mounted in different modes, and can easily hold a heavy linhof Kardan optical bench camera.
It's the former model in beige colour and chromium elements and a plateau to put on the accessoires while shooting.
It's still in rather good shape as it is extremely well and heavley built the German way like a Krupp crane...

Here you see how I used it in my studio while shooting archaeological artefacts digitally for (multiple-) exposure blending: http://www.photoeil.be/the-making-of.html, and see the photo in appendix taken from the Linhof book.
I have some angle connections too.
The wheels, these ware mounted later, have rubber band and built in brakes, I think they wouldn't harm the pavements in you studio, it did not happen in my studio...

I was thinking about selling it (without the camera) but it's so heavy, over 60 kg, that it can hardly be shipped.

 

[Ales']

I spoke in the phone with some, for small stand wheels are normal office wheels, so no problem, bc even with a heavy camera weight is still lower than an adult person on the wheel chair, sellers of big stands say just have them for sale and say that it's okay on concrete. There is like 30 studio stand online for sale, but none near me, sellers are already reluctant to pack and ship it...

 

[Ales']

Question is how violently stand hits ground when you put it back from wheels on the floor?

 

[koraks]

Unless the quality of the tiling is very poor (i.e. lots of space/gaps between tiles & floor), I wouldn't worry about these stands doing any damage to the floor.

Larger wheels would have been nice in various ways, but you gotta work with what you've got

Question is how violently stand hits ground when you put it back from wheels on the floor?

Not sure I understand, but how violently do you intend to drop it?? In other words: if you're worried about this, just be careful!

 

[Ales']

Unless the quality of the tiling is very poor (i.e. lots of space/gaps between tiles & floor), I wouldn't worry about these stands doing any damage to the floor.

Larger wheels would have been nice in various ways, but you gotta work with what you've got



Not sure I understand, but how violently do you intend to drop it?? In other words: if you're worried about this, just be careful!

Pedal should action mechanism that allow wheels to rise stand above the ground, and you have do depress the pedal in order to keep steady, so wheels retract and stand should touch the ground, do they go up and down smoothly or when you the wheels retract it just drops?

 

[koraks]

Ask seller?
Also, I'd expect that the way you operate the pedal gives you some control over how the stand is lowered.

 

[Philippe-Georges]

The wheels on my stand are about 10 cm diameter and covered with white rubber, white because this doesn't leaves black marks on the floor (like some shoe soles do).

The studio stand with a pedal has a counterweight inside the tube that is connected with a steel cable to the arm via a wheel on top of it.
I once saw the pit in the Quartz concrete covered floor of a colleague's studio made by a counterweight falling through the collum when the cable broke, although it was a famous FOBA stand...