Photography scale cubes

Photography scale cubes - for specimen photography

These are small cubes intended for use in photography, to give scale to an object.

These cubes can be very helpful in a few different fields, including gemstone jewellery, mineral identification, and fossil identification.

While we could use a coin, the Internet is international - many experts live abroad and may not know the size of a 50p, a ruble, a quarter or a yen coin.

The worst item I've ever seen used for scale is a paint roller, in a photograph of minerals - it didn't just look bad, but there are multiple sizes of paint rollers, too.

Our current stock includes:

• 10MM plastic cubes, sold in a packet of ten - mixed colours.
• 25MM/1" wooden cubes, sold in a packet of five.

While these are sold as a scale reference, they aren't exact - unfortunately exact sizing tends to cost a lot more! A 10MM cube might be 10.2MM and a 25MM cube might be 25.5MM - not perfect, but not something you'll be able to tell from a photo.