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Benefits of the 3 choices:
Flash/Strobe
Lighting is used exclusively for Still Photography.
It produces a burst of light in sync with the shutter of the
camera.
Creates a Daylight Kelvin light source for optimal color and
contrast dynamic range. The Daylight
Kelvin Temperature bulbs offer the best lighting source you can
get due to their broad color spectrum. Flash/Strobe lighting
delivers a burst of daylight temperature light, between 5000 and
6500 degrees Kelvin. Flash Lights
also are equipped with the essential modeling lamp which lets us
preview the lighting effect (to judge contrast and where shadows
fall) prior to making exposure.
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Cool Fluorescent
Continuous Lighting
Fluorescent bulbs are extremely efficient requiring only 1/4th
the electrical current of Halogen.
Their efficiency results in a bulb that runs completely cool.
Heat generation from the bulb is negligible.
Continuous Daylight Fluorescent Lighting makes Flash/Strobe
lighting obsolete because it has the advantage of being a
Continuous light source making set up much easier than with
Flash and requires no trigger sync to the camera.
Much like the traditional flash light head the
fluorescent light head comes with fittings for an umbrella pole
and softbox mounts, power cord straps and more of the features
that are expected of professional grade lighting equipment.
Power, efficiency, and easy to setup these
units leave little more to desire. Fluorescent Continuous
Lighting is being used for movie, video and still photo
production today. It delivers a smooth warm highly diffused
light source.
Professional fluorescent bulbs come in both
Indoor and Outdoor Kelvin ratings making them superior
choice for Movie, Video, and Still Photography production work.
Fluorescent Bulbs last a very long time while
Halogen bulbs require replacing much more often (Dramatic
heating and cooling takes place with every use). Fluorescent
bulbs are now available in Daylight Kelvin temperatures. This is
great news for almost every type of image acquisition
Fluorescent light bank
The fluorescent light bank is a fluorescent
light head that is capable of holding multiple fluorescent light
bulbs.
 Fluorescent
Light Head Set
The Fluorescent Light Head Set comes complete
with everything you need to quickly get started. Included in the
set is a Light Bank, softbox, fluorescent lamps.
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Tungsten Halogen Continuous Lighting
This type has been used in movie and television production for
many years.
It is capable of delivering very high brightness output.
Halogen production bulbs create a 3200 degrees Kelvin or indoor
light source.
It is widely considered the best overall lighting source for
production.
It delivers a smooth warm highly diffused light source which is
almost always the most desirable type of light source for video
and still photography production.
All Halogen bulbs get very hot. Extreme caution must be
practiced when using them to avoid serious accidents. Halogen
lighting will heat up a studio as fast as any portable heater.
Professional quality digital photography
requires lots of light. Tungsten Halogen Continuous Lighting
has been used in movie and television production for many
decades and is proven to be a reliable source of high intensity
light. Capable of delivering very high brightness output,
Tungsten/Halogen production bulbs create a 3200 degrees Kelvin
or Indoor light source.
With all the amenities of a strobe light head,
holders for softbox and barndoors and a pole holder for a studio
umbrella, has the added benefit of being an always on.
There are two Kelvin Temperatures (Whiteness)
used in Production Lighting. Halogen at 3200 degrees Kelvin
referred to as indoor and Daylight or outdoor at 5600 degrees
Kelvin which are available in several different bulb methods.
The Halogen bulbs you get at a hardware stores
are NOT production accurate temperatures. They are usually
around 2700 K for Halogen light bulbs and most of the new Edison
based fluorescent bulbs are under 4800 K. Don't count on
hardware stores as a supplier for bulbs. Always purchase bulbs
from a production lighting supplier.
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