Larry: do you use 9-foot seamless roll on your background stand? I'm curious how well the light stands work for that, which is presumably the heaviest load the support would encounter.
I've been assuming it would work, but now I'm wondering ... On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 01:48:24PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote: >> Sure, but you still need the horizontal rod. And without the rubber >> strips that IKEA provides your rod will slide around dangerously while >> you're hoisting the stands individually to their max height. And these >> IKEA hangers are insanely cheap, and most important: they are _black_. >> :-) > > Heh. I've got hose clamps on the ends of the 1" conduit I use. > > The Ikea hangers might be cheap, but the nearest Ikea is forty miles > away, rather than about three to the hardware store. > >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 12:54:40PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> This might be useful to somebody here. How to support a roll of >> >> seamless or a muslin background if you don't have a real system but do >> >> have a couple of lightweight stands free. Yes, it's an IKEA hack too. >> >> :-) >> >> >> >> http://blog.brucemwalker.com/2013/10/diy-backdrop-support-for-under-10_1.html >> > >> > I do something very similar to that, but I just use conduit clamps: >> > https://www.google.com/search?q=one+hole+conduit+clamp >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Larry Colen [email protected] >> > http://red4est.com/lrc >> > >> > >> > -- >> > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> > [email protected] >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> > follow the directions. >> >> >> >> -- >> -bmw >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
