Continuous light soft boxes, what would be best for me?
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at
11:45 pm
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You are correct that the 85 watt one would be to low a wattage. It is probably made for taking pictures of small things for Ebay and the like.
For the price, the 1000 watt s box isn’t bad, but yes, quartz lights do generate lots of heat. On the up side, what you see is what you get.
Most strobes incorporate incandescent, "modeling lights", that provide enough light to see what your trying to shoot, but don’t allow you too use anything but manual settings, as when the much more powerful strobe goes off, it changes your white balance, and usually washes out your picture.
So until you become familiar with how to manually set your exposures, for the price, the 20 x 28 soft box might work well for you. Just don’t leave it on for extended lengths of time.