180w strobes

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I currently have two really old interfit 500w units i kind of stole of my dad. There bright but they eat electric and if on for more then 5 min start to melt the housing, so have been looking on ebay and for around £40 i have seen several 180w strobes. I am considering buying 3 (that's my budget)


but i am also considering 3 simaler priced speed lights which would be better for when Im off shooting action sports

Which option would be best would cheap sangnuo speedlighs cut it as studio lights intill i have the budget to also buy strobes and would the strobes be any cop??
 
buy lencarta, not the ebay rubbish... :) especially for action sports - the cheap ones will have a wayyyy too slow flash duration.
 
Thanks but there a bit on the steep side for now i am only looking to spend under £100 for now to try my hand at using flash before i max the wifes credit card
 
get a speedlight then :) Nissin ones are meant to be pretty good.
 
For your budget I reckon the Yongnuo speed lights will be just right to start out with :)
 
What you have now is continuous lighting - totally the wrong choice.
Studio flash is a massive step up from that in nearly all situations, but not in yours.
The people advising you to get speedlights are right, because not only are they portable and battery operated, they also have very short flash durations when used at low power so can freeze the action better than any other type of lighting.
 
i started with a very similar situation to yours with a couple of interfit 3200k heads and bought a couple of portaflash 220AC slave flash units rated at 208w ( according to the box ) and a couple of jessops umbrellas
all in all a very cheap setup and much better than using 500w bulbs but they are very limited in what can be done with them
first and foremost the only way of triggering them was with another flash there's no way to vary the output not too much of an issue there not that powerfull any way and there's no model light to give you an idea of shadows or where the light is going to fall
in other words there is virtually no control over the light which in reality is everything

with it being my first attempt at studio lighting to be honest i was quite chuffed considering the cost but you soon find it's limitations

if you want to try it for little cost go for it and when you move on to better lighting you could still find a use for them maybe lighting the background or similar
 
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