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Bryan1315,
Try using the self timer

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Do yours hold a camera perfectly perpendicular to the base? Mine does not, and it drives me batty to have to mount the coin at a slight angle to get a square picture. I know it's in the trapezoid camera holder; the plate behind the camera is visibly out of parallel with the pole.

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Well Almost, I use a bubble level (the circular kind) to make sure the camera is on the level. left and right and north and south. It took some tweaking but it did ok. I like the other copy stand better. Mount camera and turn crank for up and down. no fuss.
I think the screw behind the pole adjusts the mount for squareness.

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SuperDave

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Do yours hold a camera perfectly perpendicular to the base? Mine does not, and it drives me batty to have to mount the coin at a slight angle to get a square picture. I know it's in the trapezoid camera holder; the plate behind the camera is visibly out of parallel with the pole.

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I played a little with the testrite and after starting with a level base, adjusting the wing screw at the back of the camera holder arm, I got this.

But, I cannot hold the camera level

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I use one of these on the back of the camera, and one on the the baseboard. This assures that the baseboard and camera are on the same plane. (parallel)

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SuperDave:
By locking collars do you mean these?


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If so, you should be able to replace them with a piece of copper tubing with a washer and a lock washer.
OR place two nuts together about 1/2 inch from the end of the knob and use washer and lockwasher.