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Posing Stools

  • 30-03-2011 1:37pm
    #1
    Fireman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭


    I am just about to purchase some posing stools, but I am enquiring if someone has the Lastolite Set of 4 Tubs and Cushions, with Bag. these are the ones I am looking at, has anyone on boards got these and would you recommend them as they are pretty expensive
    Thanks in advance


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  • #2
    Ballyman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Ballyman


    Fireman wrote: »
    I am just about to purchase some posing stools, but I am enquiring if someone has the Lastolite Set of 4 Tubs and Cushions, with Bag. these are the ones I am looking at, has anyone on boards got these and would you recommend them as they are pretty expensive
    Thanks in advance

    Oshead here has them. Send him a pm.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    £186 on Amazon!?

    Really, is this not the kinda stuff you could buy for a tenner in Argos or Woodies or such?


    Edit; also, this thread title is disgusting. The images that ran through my mind at first! :pac:


  • #4
    Zxc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 134 ✭✭Zxc


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Edit; also, this thread title is disgusting. The images that ran through my mind at first! :pac:


    You think this thread title is disgusting?
    I nearly choked on my cornflakes reading this thread title: "Rear element smudge"

    ;)


  • #5
    oshead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭oshead


    Ballyman wrote: »
    Oshead here has them. Send him a pm.

    They are good, does what it says on the tin, sturdy, portable and light. Get the white covers for highkey stuff. Mark cleghorn has a half hour video demonstrating them on youtube. They are exactly as he shows. Price is a bit steep though.


  • #6
    Fireman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭Fireman


    I just had a look at you tube, some good idea's on his video as well, I will defenitely buy them and I will get the white covers while im at it, Thanks for getting back to me Oshead, and sorry about the title everyone I never thought about it like that he! he!


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  • #7
    NakedDex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,984 ✭✭✭NakedDex


    Out of curiosity, what makes them so special? I'm looking at the images and not seeing anything I couldn't knock up in an hour in the workshop for a tenth of the price, or possibly even buy a close analog in a home store for, at most, half the price.
    Is there something specific about the design that I'm not spotting from the images to justify the huge price? The material or shape maybe?


  • #8
    ValueInIreland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭ValueInIreland


    One of the really nice features is that they "Nest" so they take up very little space when not in use - It's very hard to make stools strong enough that can also nest (at least with my DIY skills).


  • #9
    oshead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭oshead


    Just think Russian dolls and you'll get an idea.


  • #10
    NakedDex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,984 ✭✭✭NakedDex


    I see. I just expected there to be something very specific about them targeted at photographers given they're made (or at least branded) by Lastolite. It wouldn't be massively difficult to make up a set for a fraction of that, but then I guess I'm luckier in having a workshop of appropriate equipment to do it with.
    I've gotten kind of used to seeing the hefty prices for certain studio equipment I want and just building them myself for small fractions of the cost. Conns wanted, I think, €65 for a light-stand clamp to hold a reflector last time I was in there. I ended up manufacturing one for about €5.


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