Help with basic lighting

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Hi All, Looking to purchase some lighting to start myself off with can anyone suggest a basic starting package that I can add to as I progress, budget will be £300 - £500.

Any help appriciated, Thanks:)
 
What type of photography do you plan to do with it?
 
sbisme said:
Portrait / Model photography will be using my family to practice on.
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OK, you have quite a lot of choice. The Elinchrom D lights aren't the cheapest but they have a very wide range of good quality accessories available. Overpriced IMO but very much an expandable system that's well worth considering.

The Lencarta is much cheaper and also comes as a pretty complete kit. I've carried out very thorough tests on it and it's much better than I expected it to be. The advantage (apart from value for money) is that you won't need any extra accessories, everything you need is in the kit. The disadvantage is that apart from different umbrellas and bigger softboxes you won't be able to get any other accessories, so it isn't really expandable compared to Elinchrom.

Then there's Bowens, they have a 'new' imported budget kit available which I don't have any personal experience of. Maybe someone else has a link to it?
It has the advantage of exapandability.
 
therd is several options out there. the jessops portaflash works but the quality is a bit on the questionable side, then have the interfit ex150-200 kits and the lencarta. these sound better than the portaflash. you then have the bowens/elinchrom d lite 2 head kits, which are the better end of the budget range. for buildability you could buy a single professional head with as much power as possible from the bigger makes and use that with a reflector till you can afford a 2nd head.

personally i chose the elinchrom d lite 4 2 head kit.
 
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