Phot-R 2x2.26m PRO Studio Background Support System + Carry Case, 2x 2m Stands 1x 2.26m Crossbar Adjustable Professional Portable Photography Set for Paper Muslin Cotton Non-Woven Canvas Backdrops

Another bit of Phot-R kit that I don't see myself replacing for a good few year to come. It looks very well made with a couple of stand that are certainly up to the job. A lot of the negative comments discuss how "lightweight" the stand it, a stand like this for only £30 isn’t made for heavy weight backdrops, you need to spend 10 times as much if that’s what you want and buy 2 C stands complete with an extra long boom arm. But owning 4 C stands they are far from easy to transport or work with in a confined office or meeting room where you would probably be expected to do corporate headshots. This stand is made either for linen backgrounds or seemless paper where the cardboard inner tube helps with the support. You need decent sandbags to keep it stable, as you should have with all floor based backdrop stands, any lack of stability is purely whoever puts it up fault not knowing what they are doing. I tend to use 4 4kg bags and of course have the legs with one under the crossbar. I never put any studio equipment up to full length and always leave something in the tube so you’re not putting a strain anywhere, I usually raise mine to about 2.5 meters which is over 8 feet. I’ve had mine for going on for nearly 2 years, usually with a 3 meter x 6 meter mid grey linen backdrop as this is the most versatile. Used correctly this is a large sturdy backdrop and very hard wearing IF used correctly and as it was intended to be used.

A good sturdy and comprehensive set up... I say sturdy... It's not perfect but this was am upgrade for me and it's leaps and bound ahead of my last one. Still a little wobbly but all things consideredits very good.

if im honest, i bought this as a 2nd backdrop roll holder as i needed to have 2 by sunday as part of my Uni course (film and tv production). being a photographer already, i had the first backdrop at home waiting to be used. after receiving this backdrop i am very impressed! packaging was amazing and the carry bag is so compact! the set is light weight and the poles are sturdy and lock in similar to how tent poles do! this set cost me around £25 and yet the other backdrop frame that I've had for a while cost me well over £80. I'm actually considering selling my other frame and buying a second one of this frame to use. extremely impressed! well done!

Good value. The equivalent Bowens set retails at £149 and is not much stronger as far as I can tell. Simple to set up and perfectly adequate for occasional use. Sandbags and guy lines probably necessary if it is fully extended, but this would be true of any frame of this kind. 2 horizontal bars nicely accommodate a 135cm roll. Pity the spring loaded buttons are at 90 degrees to vertical so the the roll core lays on the upper one, but not a real issue.

This turned out to be pretty much what I expected.It feels rather flimsy and will need to be treated with extreme care to avoid splitting the plastic brackets through over-tightening of the securing nuts (professional stands have metal brackets which are more indestructible).The crossbar comes in four sections - there are two 'end' sections which have the required hole in one end to enable hooking them over the end of each stand. The crossbar sections lock together with simple sprung pins which you push in when fitting two sections together - you then gently push and twist to locate the pins and corresponding holes, so the pins spring out again and lock the two sections together.I think all four crossbar sections used together would result in a rather flimsy pole liable to bend in the middle - however, just two sections together makes for a crossbar of about 1.4m, which is ample width for a small group of two or three people standing in front of it. That's how I'm planning to use this.I'm going to look in a fabric shop for some suitable lightweight backing to hang from this. Might post an update when I've done this.

Very good!!! Easy and fast to put up, which is great and important when time is of the essence. We were shooting in the city centre and Kinsman 2 were going to be shooting at the same place, we had very little time to get the filming done, so getting the shot fast was important - This adjustable frame I put up single handily without any help within 5 minutes, could have been even faster if a friend helped. The frame itself is very sturdy and held the green screen up well. Excellent.