please help - portable studio kit on a budget?

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Hi guys and girls!

I've been doing some searching for a portable studio kit on ebay and photography sites and my budget is up to £500 but ideally around £300.

Trouble is, they vary so much in price and I'm just not sure what to go for and so I'm hoping for recommendations??

It's for a white background, ideally 3 lights (2 for background and one for the subject) and will need to recycle quite quickly and last for several hours. Ideally they should handle being on from 10am-4pm and will be used for various brief portrait shoots during the day.

Can anyone help? Any experience with these at all?

Thanks
 
studio-flash.com and the genesis line
lencarta.co.uk and the smartflash line.

both are good.
 
The Lencarta 3 head SmartFlash kit is well up to the job and costs £469.95.
The http://www.lencarta.com/index.php?p...ategory_id=21&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=53 costs £574.85.

If you can find what you're looking for for £300 it will either be stolen or rubbish:)

I'm involved with Lencarta. I'm not going to comment on any products sold by others, but can tell you that the build quality and performance of the SmartFlash makes it ideal for heavy use. One of the trade customers sells loads of them to event photographers, and those boys really do work them hard
 
That Ebay kit looks like wonderful value for money and I'm particuarly impressed by the claim that the colour temperature is accurate within 100K? Perhaps you should ask them for evidence to back that up though, I've never seen such consistency except from Bron, which cost more than most people pay for their cars... In fact, every time I've seen that claim the actual figures are closer to 1000 than 100 when actually tested.

And while you're asking them about that, you might want to ask them which accessory fitting the lights have, as it's very important and they don't say.

And you might want to check that they're fan cooled, as this isn't mentioned either.
And you also need to know about the modelling lamps, another important feature that hasn't been mentioned by the 'Honest UK seller'

Generally speaking, if it looks too good to be true then it is.
 
Garry Edwards said:
That Ebay kit looks like wonderful value for money and I'm particuarly impressed by the claim that the colour temperature is accurate within 100K? Perhaps you should ask them for evidence to back that up though, I've never seen such consistency except from Bron, which cost more than most people pay for their cars... In fact, every time I've seen that claim the actual figures are closer to 1000 than 100 when actually tested.

And while you're asking them about that, you might want to ask them which accessory fitting the lights have, as it's very important and they don't say.

And you might want to check that they're fan cooled, as this isn't mentioned either.
And you also need to know about the modelling lamps, another important feature that hasn't been mentioned by the 'Honest UK seller'

Generally speaking, if it looks too good to be true then it is.
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you make a few good points there!! Looks like it's a case of just going for the ones previously recommended then. For the sake of trying to save £100 it looks like I'd be better off getting the other.

Thanks for all the help! :)
 
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