lencarta convert... but need more

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well I've been so impressed with the previous lencarta stuff I bought I thought I would buy more.
a beauty dish, smartflash and stand on the way :)

but oh it never ends... ..
I now need a grid for the dish, a strip softbox, more grids,, maybe a boom stand....
now.... I know that lencarta stuff is already cheap, but how about an even cheaper range for tight wads like me? I'm thinking that those grids could be cheaper and some of the softboxes :) how about it? :)

probably not, but I'm scared by the cost of the beauty dish grid, and everywhere is the same, yet they look sort of simple (maybe its the material).

anyway enough moaning, well done for the other great stuff, it really does seem to be the best quality for the cost out there.
 
probably not, but I'm scared by the cost of the beauty dish grid, and everywhere is the same, yet they look sort of simple (maybe its the material).
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grids are always expensive, the honeycomb material must be pretty pricey, and it's fairly fragile too.

You don't need every mod under the sun, work with what you've got and build from there. Eg: if you want to try a strip softbox, just put some black material (card, bin liner, whatever, using a couple of clothes pegs) on the sides of a normal softbox to just make a strip. Not a perfect solution, but it lets you figure out how you'd use that shape of light in your photography.

If you need to make a light source harder... move it away.

Boom stands should never be cheap, they need to be safe.

lencarta's stuff is already -very- cheap for what it is I'm afraid :( You might save a few quid by ordering some stuff from china.

Other solution is make friends with other people with lighting kit, go to strobist meetups, whatever...always a nice way to get to grips with what shapers might work well with your photography.
 
Look on the bright side, I've just spent over £400 on two 1'x4' grids for my soft boxes!
Not to mention the grid for the beauty dish is only £10 cheaper than the actual dish!

But I do agree, why is something so simple, so expensive?:shrug:
 
I've got the cheap chinese stuff too :)
can't complain, some of it is serving me well, but I'm starting to get people ask me to do shoots for them and need something more up market :)

also, some of the cheap strobes have non standard fittings that make them a b****r.

I made the mistake of buying some lighting books and now I want everything :)

anyway, I plan to do this professionally in a few years time once I know what I'm doing more and some of the things I'm buying now should last me for a while if I'm careful (I'm good at that, I've got 20 year old guitar stuff that I still use and still works).

but that £50 bessel strip box looks tempting......
 
also, some of the cheap strobes have non standard fittings that make them a b****r.
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oh god, I wasn't suggesting getting the cheap rubbish flashes. Some stuff like (say) a snoot though, will be pretty much the same wherever you get it (hell, the profoto £250 snoot is distinctly pants imo).
 
lol, hey those cheap neewer ebay strobes aren't bad, they are not up to the quality of the lencarta ones but I have them and still use them for different things. mine havent blown up or stopped working.... however the main issue with them is that they don't go low enough, fine as a key light or background but tricky as a fill or hair light.
 
Take a look a the Bessel website some of their kit is ok if your on a tight budget.
 
1. stop buying stuff

2. find one modifier you really really need and buy a quality version of that

3. use it

4. wait

5. repeat ;)
 
JonathanRyan said:
1. stop buying stuff

2. find one modifier you really really need and buy a quality version of that

3. use it

4. wait

5. repeat ;)
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far more succinct than how I managed to put it :)

I'm lucky enough to have virtually every lighting modifier under the sun available to me, but most of the time I still end up just using a single 2x3' softbox...
 
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