Kaiser RS2 XA Copystand & Lights (5411 and 5464)

Kaiser is the expert, specialist copystand manufacturer. In our view, they make the best copystands because of their system compatibility. This means they perfectly tailor their stands, lights and accessories to your individual requirements.

The RS2 XA has a 15.7 x 19.7 inch baseboard and the column height is 31 inches. The non-reflective matt grey baseboard with printed fine grid helps align copying with a cm/inch scale. Matt-black anodised aluminium section tube column with cm/inch scale matches the black lamps. It comes with a horizontally adjustable camera arm to change the distance to the column, which moves approx. 7 cm (2.7 in.) back and forth. 1/4'' mounting thread. Column folds down on baseboard.

The accompanying 18w RB 218 HF Lighting unit is a high frequency operating system. It includes two small light banks, each equipped with a cold light fluorescent lamp, tiltable and adjustable in height. The angle of vertical arms is adjustable by locking joint. Mounted with strong die-cast clamp bases.

• Clamp width 48 mm (1.9 in.)
• Lamps: 2 x 18 watts 40kHz
• Colour temperature: 5400 K

As a tip in copying, we suggest you use a 50mm standard lens or, better still if you have it, an 80mm enlarger lens using an adaptor or bellows unit. If a film user, make sure you use a slow one. Film like Ilford PanF, Fuji Reala or Velvia and a self-adhesive spirit level, to get parallels correct, is a useful additional accessory to consider.