Photostudio in box

[Sergey]

Hi, model-brothers.

Does anyone tryied any Photo studio in box? I would like to hear reviews about Micro-Markt's one:

http://www.micromark.com/PHOTO-STUDIO-IN-A-BOX,9552.html

and Tamyja's one:

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10065301

I plan to use one of these mostly for "Work in progress" pictures and for ready model shots too. What do you think?

[mackinac359]

I looked at one of these a handful of years ago, but the size to photo a truck model wasn't available then.

Tim

[crazyjim]

The first photobox I made was from heavy white paper (a Dukefan69 post). The second one I went exotic and used the white board that has foam in the middle. It works for me. I believe there have been other posts for photoboxes here as well. Why spend all the money when you can do it yourself?

[mountaindewd]

I would think some PVC pipe(small diameter),elbows, couplers and a white sheet would work just as good. It would be collapsible, allow light through for the subject, be adjustable for the size of the subject and cost a whole lot less. If you need to transport it, find an old briefcase at a thrift store or one of those fabric shopping bags with handles.

[Aaronw]

This is one I made several years ago out of foam core board, I'm pretty sure it was under $10 for the 3 pieces of board, and some heavy clear tape. By using the tape I could fold the box up for storage.

Now I'm even lower tech, I just use a piece of heavy white paper, I tape the top edge to a shelf to keep it in place and let it settle into a 1/4 circle. This gives me a bottom and back without a seam.

This is using the sheet of paper, the background just curves away smoothly

and the old way with the foam core box, I almost always ended up with a seam in the background

[MonoPed]

I use the backside of a poster taped to my kitchen counter, and the overhead florescent kitchen lights, with the camera on a tripod.

But, Alex Kustov has a great tutorial on a home built photobox that I am gonna try out:

http://italianhorses.net/Tutorials/Photo%20Booth/photobooth.htm