Studio photography kit, help im clueless!

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I would like to start doing a bit more studio style photography and at the moment i have a white wall and daylight to work with. i would love to get some lighting but i am completely and utterly baffled by the choice of lighting and reflectors and things! could someone please tell me what basic kit i can get away with???

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You should post this in the lighting forum as you'll get better advice. You can start off with a one light set up and add other lights to it if you need too. You could get a one head set up for close to £150 which would give you a light, softbox and stand. Obviously if you have a much larger budget you could get a two head or three head set up. I bought the lencarta 2 head kit and sold one straight away because i had no room. I have the other one sitting under the bed in my spare room doing nothing so make sure you have the room. Welcome to the forum by the way.
 
i would get a FF DSLR such as the a900 and then get a 24-70mm f2.8 carl ziess lens, wonderful glass carl ziess makes.

as for lighting i pressume you'll need studio heads which i dont know about as im a flashgun user. if it was flashguns needed then i would get 4x hvl f42am and a stock of reflectors will be useful. but this is just my opinion and dont know much about what you properly need.
 
Thank you, i realised just after i posted that i did it in the wrong place! doh!

im thinking flashgun might be the way to go spacewise, i also have small people to contend with who love to fiddle with mummys stuff!
 
For indoors studio proper studio lights are much better. They have modelling light that helps with arrangement of strobes and model positioning. portable flashes may also do, but the work is much harder to get the same result.

FF is best, but most other dSLRs would suffice as long as they can focus right. (10MP = huge A3 or larger print) Low light performance is not an issue as all studio work is done at ISO100 (or the lowest possible setting). Lenses are very important. For studio I would go for a few good primes like 135mm f/2, 100mm macro, 85mm f/1.8, 50mm f/1.4 and a wideangle zoom 17-40? All 70-200mm are very good too. 24-70 is an overkill. Primes are the sharpest and have very narrow DOF wide open (advantage).
 
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