Lighting Question: Is this decent?
 

Setting up a small back office studio. Ran into this the other day and was wondering if it is even worth considering to buy:

http://www.handhelditems.com/xpro-pr...la-p-5001.html

This would be used for our photo sessions. Thanks in advance. :thumbsup

At 39$ I think you can't go wrong....

run down to Samys Camera on Fairfax and avoid the junk that falls apart

Any brands that you suggest?

What is popular in porn valley are Kino Flo for continuous lights and Dyna lite for strobes.

But you can save lots of dough and still get 90% or more of the quality by buying your continuous lights at http://coollights.biz/ and getting your strobes from Alien Bees.

Reason I use Kino and Dynalite is because they are highly dependable and I absolutely need that on a location shoot.

I believe those are for very low wattage bulbs so the light output may not be enough for anything larger than product photography. Prolly want to shoot those guys an email and ask about that.

Thanks for the help, will definitely look into that.

Appreciate the advice, I will definitely call and see what they say.

im not an expert, i guess i am just a hobbyist, been doing this for 7 years or so and i ever liked umbrellas. I use them once in a milennia pointed directly at a subject to emphasize high cheekbones or to give the appearence of them. But overall, for me at least, I am better off with flourescents.

Duke

This guy has some very good suggestions, especially when on a budget.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eik8i...eature=related

no kidding. that's not a bad deal at all.

I use speedotrons ( www.speedotron.com )
great lights, but pretty heavy