If you like the Alien Bees, you should also like the White Lightnings.
Manufactured by the same company.
One thing to consider is the replacement cost for modeling lamps and
flash tubes. The Alien Bees replacement tube is about half the cost of
the tube for the Bowens monolights, and about 1/3 the cost of the
Elinchrom tubes.
However, none of these are TUNGSTEN lights.
If you're thinking the old fashion style can lights with the slider that
changes from spot to flood, those things are WAY EXPENSIVE.
OTOH, you can probably get started with clamp on lights from Home Depot
or Lowes. I'd make sure I got the ones with ceramic sockets to handle
higher wattage bulbs.
From: "Tanya Love"
Elinchrom or Bowens are the only way to go if you are serious. That said,
I've been shooting Alien Bees for years now and love them. They now have a
distributor in Australia which is even better, and you can get the same
features for half of the price of either of the aforementioned brands.
PLUS, they come in PINK! Woohoo!
Tan.x.
-----Original Message-----
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of
Christine Aguila
Sent: Saturday, 5 June 2010 11:46 PM
To: pdml@pdml.net
Subject: studio light brand suggestions
Here's a question for folks shooting in studio conditions:
Any particular *brand recommendations* for *continuous tungsten studio
lights* to be used for portraiture?
Thanks in advance.
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