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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 3982553, member: 105571&quot;]Well Di Nomos, I was in the same quandary as you with regard to copy stands - I didn&#039;t like the price or quality of what was available at a price point of $200 to $300 so I made my own.&nbsp; Photo below.&nbsp; Now, I have a machine shop, so I could make pretty much everything from scratch.&nbsp; My total cost for raw materials, including the gear rack was about $200.&nbsp; My target was to make it very rigid and stable so everything is heavy duty. The column was a fork tube from a 1976 Kawasaki 900, a relic from my old drag-racing days.&nbsp; With some ingenuity, you could probably make yours out of a piece of steel pipe, use a thick 1&quot; to 1-1/2&quot; wood base (the pre-made round table tops you can find at the big-box hardware stores is what I used) and you&#039;ll need to get creative for the clamp and camera mount.</p><p><br /></p><p>To the original OP message, I painted the base with the super-black 3.0 paint (about 8 coats of water-thinned material).&nbsp; It is very non-reflective.&nbsp; You can tell the difference by comparing it to the spray-bomb flat back paint used on the column and the column base.&nbsp; but I&#039;ve found that it tends to scuff easily, leaving the scuff marks looking kind of grayish.&nbsp; You can see the marks left by my light clamps at the front of the base even though the clamps use a HDPE plastic cushion.&nbsp; If I was doing it again, I&#039;d forgo the expensive paint and paint it with regular flat black and use black velvet to cover the base.</p><p><br /></p><p>My camera is a Nikon DSLR 610 with a Sigma 105mm macro lens, remote shutter release.&nbsp; The combination is pretty heavy but so is my copy stand.&nbsp; So far, I haven&#039;t had to use the &quot;mirror up&quot; function to reduce vibration but it is early days.</p><p><br /></p><p>Light fixtures are $7.99 each from the dollar store, highly modified and lighting is 1680 lumen, 5000K LEDs</p><p><br /></p><p>Best of luck and tell us how your sojourn goes.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1048517[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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