12May Infinite White with Cheap 5 Bulbs CFL Lighting

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   sam
   May 12th, 2011 at 5:08 pm
   

   wow shes hot!

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   rabby
   May 12th, 2011 at 7:03 pm
   

   She should be our regular host here @ Cheesycam…

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   Aron anderson
   May 12th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
   

   That is cool you did this tutorial for everyone. I just used this technique on a new music video I just finished. Go check it out at my web site TrinityFXmg.com. It’s called Eres el aire. By the way cheesycam is one of the web sets I view every day. Great job.

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   DigitalCyclops
   May 14th, 2011 at 1:08 am
   

   I wonder how these stack up compared to the Lincos. Anyone use both? They seem quite decent. My quick take is that the quality of the lincos may be better, but they only have 2 banks.
   http://www.lincostore.com/product/Linco-PE9030KS-3356.html

   I’m torn between using these types, and just going LED.

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   DigitalCyclops
   May 14th, 2011 at 1:15 am
   

   Of course the exact same technique is quite usable on Chroma Blue or Green Screens too!

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   Brian
   May 17th, 2011 at 8:11 am
   

   Anyone know her phone number, I have some questions about the errr…the…yeah the lights. That’s it, the lights, tech questions I need answered.

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   TM
   May 26th, 2011 at 12:56 am
   

   I tried out CFLs before buying LEDs. The CFLs are just too much hassle to take down and set up, unless you happen to have a studio where you use them frequently. And the manufacturers typically overrate the actual power usage by as much as 2x, so they don’t produce as much light as you might expect.

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   sidney
   June 17th, 2011 at 9:26 pm
   

   Hey I tried these lights and they work awesome..People talk about taking them down and putting them up..its easy.Just take the head off and place it in your car in a safe position and fold your light stand up and you are on your way. I do it all the time and it is a quick take down and set up….I love these lights, I have 2 and I will eventually have 6 of them. I recommend it guys and girls if you haven’t gotten them, get them…They are great.

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   Bruce Philpott
   July 21st, 2011 at 7:09 pm
   

   I paid $165 for a pair of these 1000w soft boxes with stands. I was surprised to find that the light stands aren’t the pure crap I was expecting. The soft box assembly instructions are more confusing than just winging it. They should point out that ONE of the corners of each box is an open, velcro pocket… the rest of the corners have closed pockets, so insert rods in them FIRST, then you have the open pocket to fight, err… work with to enable you to close the final corner.

   Yes, set-up and take-down are a bit of a pain, but I couldn’t figure how to get two 1,000w fairly soft lights at this price any other way.

   I’d buy ‘em again.

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    Anthony Chabot
    August 8th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
    

    I bought a pair of these and returned them because the rods used to construct the softbox were too long and the quality of the softbox was really, really bad. I mean terrible. Don’t do it. Save your money for some LEDs.

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    Emm
    August 8th, 2011 at 3:14 pm
    

    @Anthony Chabot – We’ve been using these lights pretty exclusively for in studio stuff. The softboxes do suck. It’s a pain to setup, and we never break them down. I mentioned this here: http://cheesycam.com/5-cfl-bulb-video-light-head-vs-800w-redhead-lighting/. Outside of that, these perform much better than any of our LED lighting sets, but we don’t attempt to travel with these.

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    Anthony Chabot
    August 9th, 2011 at 7:21 pm
    

    @emm, I probably could’ve gotten the softboxes to work if I actually clipped the rods about an inch or so each. But they kept popping out of the ends of the softboxes. I just gave up on them. I do love your site though, and I’ve purchased a LOT of things because of you. You have made it possible to take my game to the next level and my customers are very thankful. I check your site at least daily and watch your videos all the time. My favorite site by far.

    What do you mean they performed better than LED’s? I bought an LED set you recommended and they’re amazing. You mean the cfl’s are just a lot brighter, right?

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    Emm
    August 9th, 2011 at 7:33 pm
    

    @Anthony Chabot – They diffuse better (broader) and less spotty. LED lights can be very directional and hard to get nice even lighting in a large area, like when we are doing infinite white or green screen. Definitely wouldn’t suggest traveling with the cheap set I have, but in a static studio location they are in constant use with all the videos done here. I would get another set no problem, but for traveling the 900s are the lights to use.

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    Elias
    October 6th, 2011 at 2:33 pm
    

    Europe dealer somewhere? ePhoto does not seem to ship to Europe…

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    Michael Scarn
    October 9th, 2011 at 9:01 pm
    

    I’m slowly making this kit work as a portable studio. With a few DIY tricks here and there, setup and take down of this lighting set is pretty quick. Once I get done with my current on-location promotional vid, I’ll have some time to put up a video on some of these tricks I’ve been using for a speedier experience.

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    scary
    December 13th, 2012 at 9:57 am
    

    thank you for looking so good @oliviatech

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