single light stand

[benweblight]

what is the cheapest stand you can get, for holding a single light, able to hold a profile?

[peter]

What size of profile, and at what height?

[benweblight]

needs to be able to hold a cantana if nessesary

 

im not good with heights, just a bove average head height probably

[Paul J Need]

Have a peek at the Powerdrive stands sich as the REF 40

 

Maximum Evenly Distributed Load 40 kgs

Minimum Height in 1690mm

Maximum Height in 3553mm

 

Price: £58.00 ish

[slim_mcslim]

surely any lighting stand would be able to take a single cantata, powerdrive being a classic example.

 

you have to consider how you are going to rig the light, you could put a T bar on the stand and then hang the cantata from that, which will hang slightly to the one side, or you could put a top hat/spigot on the yoke of the light and rig it upside down on the top of the stand which normally looks a lot neater.

 

the only downside is using the unit upside down will normally shorten the lamp life.

[Bryson]

But it's the work of moments to invert the yoke, so you don't have to run it upside down. I seem to recall on a Cantata that you can invert the yoke without even having to take it off. Can someone with one check that?

[Peter Tovey]

you have to consider how you are going to rig the light, you could put a T bar on the stand and then hang the cantata from that, which will hang slightly to the one side, or you could put a top hat/spigot on the yoke of the light and rig it upside down on the top of the stand which normally looks a lot neater.

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Why would you rig it upside down? Just swing the yoke round to the bottom and rig it the right way up. And move it to the balance point if the pivot location is adjustable. I've yet to meet a light that won't let you rig it with the yoke below (though with some it's a bit of a faff)

 

Peter

[Peter Tovey]

Darn, beaten to it. You don't have to take off a cantata yoke, though you may have to loosen it slightly to move it to one end before swinging round.

 

Pete

[gareth]

Cantatas are (or can be, at least) some of the faffiest lanterns to use on a stand. If you're lucky, you might be able to do it without too much bother - but only if the yoke is attached to the lamphouse rather than the lens tube, and you don't want too much tilt away from the horizontal.

 

If you're unlucky, the yooke will be attached to the lens tube (desirable if you want a balanced 18/32, essential for a balanced 11/26). If that's the case, you've got to separate lamphouse from lens tube, remove yoke from upper runners, replace into lower runners, then reassamble unit. Same applies if you want to be able to give the lantern serious amounts of tilt on the stand - with the yoke in the top runners and inverted underneath the lamphouse, you can't tilt it too far without the lamphouse or lens tube hitting the yoke. :** laughs out loud **: