Julius Studio 20 x 20 inch Cubic Table Top White Cube Photo Shooting Tent, Pop Up Light Box, Photoshooting Box with 4 Color Backdrop Background, White Black Blue Red, Diffusion Soft Box, JSAG874

I purchased this to digitize photo prints by shooting them with my digital camera. The tent softens light landing on objects (here photographs) placed inside and pretty much eliminates glare or shiny spots. The basic idea for shooting photographs is to mount your camera above the tent looking down (I used a copy stand) and lay the photos on the bottom of the tent (or on a rigid shooting surface). In this setup, the camera and top of tent can still reflect in the photos. To eliminate the reflection, make a dark mat surface (I used poster board on which I glued mat black paper) and cut a hole in it to poke your camera in. Then open up the top of the tent (what a great design), place your board and camera up top and voila, no reflections. If you are using your mobile phone to digitize, you can probably just lay your camera on the blackened poster board and skip the copy stand.

Upon opening it, I was being careful because I read in the reviews of people opening it and it just shooting out and hitting them in the face. Well even though it's careful the force is so strong that when I barely started to pull it out of the bag it's in it just popped open and hit me hard in the face. I mean really hard. They should put a warning on the bag or find some other way to package it. After I regained consciousness I inspected it and it seems like it had already been opened because the white fabric that comes with it was dirty and so was the side of the photo box. But overall it seems pretty sturdy and perfect for taking pictures of jewelry and natural lighting. I'll update on any other findings. It would get five stars if it weren't for getting punched in the face by the package and the fact that somebody had already purchased it and it was dirty and was resold at full price.

Not at all as expected. Poor design.