It's time for another review from The Slanted Lens.
We're gonna review the Click Stand, by Kupo.
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So let’s take a look at the Click Stand by Kupo.
I think they were gonna call it the Snap Stand.
But then they thought, "Hey, The Slanted Lens.
Keep those cameras rollin’, keep on clickin’."
So then they called it the Click Stand.
Eh, probably not.
Anyway.
It’s a click stand.
And the reason is is because with a little lever here [NOISE] they come apart.
And you put this right back in there and they click right back together.
They stack which is one of the things that is so difficult when you’re going on location
is a big pile of stands in the back of your car, on your truck.
It’s just hard to get these very organized.
These all snap together in a row.
You can stack them the short way, you can stack them the long way, however it’s gonna
travel best for you and where you have to put them.
Now they’re not as heavy duty as, like the-- their universal stand by Kupo which is my
favorite.
That really heavy duty studio stand.
I love that for in the studio.
But I love these for traveling.
This is perfect for traveling.
So a set of these to travel.
Even the 27’ that are a little shorter are great because you can get those into most
cases.
At 36” it’s hard to get these into -- to a lot of cases, unless you’ve got a very
tall case.
But the 27” one gets into a lot of cases.
You can put three of those.
And that’s when you can decide when to-- to stack them on top of each other.
If it’s gonna slide along a really, uh, narrow slot in your case.
So you stack them on top of each other, slide them in there.
They’re just very simple to travel with.
You can take a strap and it clicks.
They’ve got a spot for it to click right on the top and down here on the bottom.
And throw it over your shoulder and you’ve got three stands on your shoulder.
I mean that’s really what makes these things absolutely fabulous is you pop them apart.
It’s just very simple.
They’re square on the bottom so they stand up on their own.
So they’ve got a quick release clamp design here on that center column that allows them
to open up.
Gives you a nice platform, that lever clicks back in you’re ready to go.
Then have two risers on the 8’ version, which is 36 inches.
When it’s collapsed.
They have three risers on the, uh, 7’ version, which is 27 inches when it’s collapsed.
On the top they’ve got this little black thing that-- that, uh, protects your quarter-twenty.
This is what I usually do with that.
And then they’ve got this little cap right here.
So you can go a quarter-twenty or three-eighths.
And you have both those options on the top.
Always the toughest thing to be able to sl-- to solve, this quarter-twenty to three-eighths.
You know you get a spud that goes up and down, then you lose the spud.
Or they use it somewhere else.
This at least has it attached so you can go with the three-eighths or you got the small
quarter-twenty and you gotta keep track of that.
It’s air-cushioned so when you drop it it’s gonna come down really slow.
Especially when you’ve got a weight on it, which is really nice.
That air-cushioned feature is something that’s really important.
I mean people get their fingers sq-- uh, pinched in these.
I’ve used non-air-cushioned stands my whole career.
It’s just what I use.
But uh, people love the air-c-- cushioned.
And it is very nice.
There’s no doubt about it.
So it’s a great stand by Kupo.
They are sold individually.
So you buy each piece individually.
But you can buy as many of them as you need.
It’s very simple to put a group together.
So recently when I’m traveling I’ve been using those stands that the legs fold up on
themselves.
They’re very lightweight and they’re very short.
That’s nice but they’re just not very sturdy.
This is a much better option in that when you get the seven foot, uh, version it’s
short enough.
You can get it into a suitcase and travel with it.
And it gives you a much stronger stand when you go to use.
And I feel a lot more confident putting, you know my LED lights and things on that, than
a lot of those s--.
Uh, simpler, lighter weight stands.
So anyway it’s a great option for travel.
Everything about it has been done right.
The knobs are soft.
You have this kind of, like, grip on your knobs.
So you get-- your fingers can grip on them.
I give it a ten out of ten just because they call it a Click Stand.
No actually I give it a ten out of ten because it’s a great stand.
I mean they just did a lot of very nice things that make this a very positive and a travel
worthy and a great stand to take on location.
So check it out.
Keep those cameras rollin’, keep on clickin'.
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I’m excited to be hosting our first workshop out at a great vintage airplane museum here
in Los Angeles.
We’re going to show you how to use strobes in combination with sun, gonna show you how
to make great shade in direct sun.
It’s a great opportunity to understand how to use your strobes in all the different lighting
situations you’re going to see.
From bright direct sun to more of that evening sun as the sun sets.
Julene’s gonna end that day with us with some great retouching tips on how to clean
up skin and how to make models look fabulous.
So come and join us on April 30th.
Keep those camera’s rollin and keep on clickin’.
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