The Valoi 360 Essential Copy Stand will hold your camera, allow you to change the height up and down with relative ease and let you easily attach your camera in a position pointing down.
Point your camera down at the desk to allow for easy scanning
Quickly regulate the height of the stand with a simple lock and slide
Wide grip area for the head to hold the camera firmly
Large custom aluminium tripod screw for excellent ergonomics and a firm grip on your camera
Wide area to allow space for your hands
Aluminium and construction provide stability while being affordable
Easy user-assembly
Optimised for Scanning
Unlike a tripod, designed to point your camera at a subject in front of you, the scanning stand points your camera down at the desk where you will place your film holder. From here, you can easily regulate the height by sliding the head up and down the rail of the stand instead of being forced to re-adjust the legs of a tripod - this makes it much quicker to set up and get scanning with than a traditional tripod.
A Camera Head Designed for Scanning and Ergonomics
The head of our stand is custom-made and specially designed for scanning. The shape of it supports the camera sturdily while providing a broad front, covered in rubber material, that grips onto the base of the camera to keep it from swinging. The wider front also allows for a large, custom-made for this stand, 40mm diameter tripod screw and for your hands to tighten it easily.
Extendable
Choose between two lengths by adding an extension:
- Standard length: 490mm
- Extended length: 690mm
Lengths are measured from the surface it is standing on to the top of the column. The actual usable height is 20-30mm shorter.
See the size measurements in the images.
Note that the extended length only partially replaces a professional-grade stand as the stability is not improved over the standard length version. The extended version is unsuitable for heavy lenses and cameras, such as a professional DSLR with a 100mm macro lens.
Compatibility
The chart below will tell you if you need the extension (assuming you scan 120 film - if you only scan 35mm film, you never need the extension for normal focal length lenses). The compatibility is based on our judgement of whether the stand is stable enough.
Setup Extension Compatible
Setup | Extension | Compatible |
APS-C mirrorless camera + 60mm or shorter lens | No | Yes |
M4/3 camera + 40mm or shorter lens | No | Yes |
APS-C DSLR + 60mm or shorter lens | No | Yes |
M4/3 or APS-C camera with 60mm or longer lens | Yes | Yes |
APS-C camera with 90mm lens or longer | Yes | Yes* |
Smaller full-frame mirrorless camera + 70mm or shorter lens | No | Yes |
Larger full-frame mirrorless camera + 70mm or shorter lens | No | Yes* |
Smaller full-frame mirrorless camera with 90mm lens or longer | Yes | Yes* |
Larger full-frame mirrorless camera + 90mm lens or longer | NA | No |
Pro-level Full-frame DSLR | NA | No |
* This setup may be at the limit of what we recommend for the stand. You should be more patient and more careful if using this stand with this setup. Failing to do this can result in blurry pictures. If you are unsure - get in touch at hello@valoi.co
Additional accessories are necessary to produce a final image, including a digital camera, a close-focusing lens and a light source.