Cosmo Copy Stand, Mini 500, a Compact Tool with a Floating Magnet Board for Digitizing Old Photos with Your High-Pixel Camera or Smartphone Instead of Scanning. Made in the USA

It took 3 months to arrive, but here it is. And it works. Reproducing documents and old photos with my new phone works fine.

I bought this copy-stand to do "DSLR scanning" of some 35mm slides. The fatal flaw of the setup is that there is no way to adjust the "tilt" angle of the camera. My camera hangs on the L bracket at a tilt angle of a couple degrees, which is enough that the not all of the 35mm slide will be in perfect focus. An additional "tripod leveling base" (or at least a shim) is necessary to accomplish that. The copy stand is reasonably sturdy, but the amount of camera shake during close focusing is considerable. That said, I don't know of any better copy stand for this purpose in a similar price range. I'm using a Lumix GX85 with the Olympus 60mm macro lens to do the photography. With the camera mounted at the lowest possible position, the 35mm slide image mostly fills the frame. Being able to move the camera further down would be a little bit better. Not related to the copy stand, but perhaps helpful to others trying to do slide scanning: I found that f/2.8 and f/4.0 provide best sharpness with this lens. Stopping down the aperture further results in noticeable loss of sharpness due to diffraction. I would be very curious to try this with a newer camera supporting sensor-shift high resolution mode.

Very well made and a fantastic value for the $. It’s very stable and can’t really say a bad thing about it. Easy to adjust.

OK so I almost never leave reviews on Amazon. One reason is I’m generally not 100% happy with things I get but not unhappy enough to send them back. This is different. I am 100%, scratch that, I’m 110% happy with this copy stand. Great quality, very easy to put together, and everything they said it was in the ad.

It's a great deal for the price, but you could get something used for the same price that works better. It's a little wobbly and finicky, but it gets the job done in a pinch. I was using this for scanning film.

I use this copy stand for scanning film negatives with DSLR. Normally copy stands for susch purposes go for much higher price. Three diffrent options for Cosmo stand can be found on internet. They are rated Mini 300, Mini500 and Mini700 dependent on their holding power. This one is Mini500. It is more or less OK, holds DSLR securely though it moves if you touch camera. This issue can be mitigated mechanically to some extend. Probably this will be true for almost any stand at least to some extend. Of course it reqires timed shutter release. I use 2 sec, though 10 sec might be slightly better. Another issue is that L-bracket is a bit short and with some macro lenses it requires to lift negatives. With some dexterity this stand allows to accomplish objective - to get 35mm film negatives scanned with good quality at high resolution of 42 MP (Sony A7RII). With above mentioned caveats I would say that this is usable product.

Package was delivered on time. The kit was well protected and packed. Easy to put together. Seems sturdy enough, reminds me of the enlarger stand I used decades ago. I do hope it holds up since I will be using it for a long time. I have many boxes of negatives and pictures to save digitally. I'm sure I will find other uses for it. The cell phone holder was a unexpected and very welcome extra bonus. This will be an appreciated steady third hand. Thank you for making this stand in the USA. We need more companies manufacturing in the USA.

I purchased this item so I could scan my 35 mm and 120 mm film. The item is well built, however, the design of the product is horrible. Since I don’t have a dedicated camera for film, scanning, I am forced to set it up every time I want to scan Film. And that is where the problem lies. It is very awkward to set it up the design for adjusting the camera up and down is absolutely horrible. I know this is an affordable copy stand, but I would think twice about buying one. If you can afford one with a dedicated adjustment for the camera, I would spend the extra money.