Recommend a light tent?

[julian_fraser]

Hi all

My wife has a new range of her bunnies coming out soon (no, you didn't read that wrong see here for an explanation!) and wants to photograph them in a light tent for a brochure.

I know it's simple enough to make a DIY one but the table-top fold-away ones are fairly cheap and will be easier to store. I've already got lights that would suffice.

Does anyone use a light tent that they can recommend?

So far I'm leaning towards this from Steve's Photo Shop.

Thanks

[onefivenine]

I don't have one but have had this on the wish list for a while, and that one looks ideal.
In terms of what its function is, it can hardly be a bad purchase by my reckoning..... it's not like it isn't going to diffuse the light, eh?!
The interchangeable backgrounds look ok.
What can possibly go wrong? And all for the price of a family chinese takeaway - give or take.

I say go for it... in fact I'm about to press the button.

Nice bunnies by the way... could be after one of those for a present.

[richard plumb]

I think thats either the one I got (80cm) or very very similar (probably all made by the same company anyway). its ok. Usual popup stuff means very difficult to fold away. The 'infinity' backgrounds are a bit rubbish. Veloury which is good to absorb light and avoid reflections, but they're a bit crinkly so they need ironing all the time.

Get as big as you can handle, to get space between the subject and the backdrop.

At the end of the day you could do a similar job with some coat-hangers and some muslin, but this does it for you at a decent price

[tdodd]

I bought an 80cm popup tent, complete with four coloured backdrops, from eBay for about £14 or £15 delivered. It works fine.

Here's an eBay search that should return some examples....

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/sear...trypage=search

If you can find a video on how to fold them back up it is really very simple, once you know how.

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