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1.2-3m Telescopic Cross Bar for Adjustable Backdrop Support — photography studio equipment
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1.2-3m Telescopic Cross Bar for Adjustable Backdrop Support

This crossbar extends from 120cm to 300cm, so a single bar handles a narrow headshot setup one day and a full-width seamless roll the next. If you shoot in a spare room or a small hire studio, being able to shorten the bar rather than work around a fixed 3m span is often the difference between fitting the backdrop into the space and not. The tube is aluminium with a black finish, which keeps the weight down while carrying up to 8kg. That covers seamless paper, muslin and heavier hand-painted canvas, and the dark finish stays quiet in frame if you are shooting wide or bouncing light off a nearby wall. Both ends take a 5/8" spigot, the standard fitting on light stands and tripods, so the crossbar works with the stands you already own and your working height is set by whatever you mount it on. It comes apart in seconds and stores flat, which matters when the same room has to be a studio in the morning and something else by the afternoon.

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Price£33.99
Background Expansion Drive and Holder Bracket Set Photo Props — photography studio equipment
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Background Expansion Drive and Holder Bracket Set Photo Props

This is the straightforward way to get a seamless roll off the floor and under your control: a pair of expansion drive shafts that slot into the ends of the roll, and a pair of hooked C-clamp brackets to hold them up. The drive shafts fit any seamless paper or vinyl background with a core between 45mm and 72mm, and carry up to 10kg. A chain rolls the background down for the shot and back up out of the way afterwards, so a scuffed bottom metre of paper can be wound out of sight rather than trimmed off mid-session. The attachable counterweight stops the roll creeping once you have set your height. The brackets clamp rather than bolt, gripping light stands, tripods and autopoles, and measure 17.5cm long by 6.5cm wide by 6cm high. Two stands you already own become a working background system, and the whole thing comes apart again when the room has to go back to being a room. If you move between painted canvas and paper through a shoot, this is the part that makes the swap quick: the roll stays loaded and hangs ready, instead of being carried in and out for every change of look.

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