Comments on: In search of cheap video lighting

By: The Lampholder

The Lampholder — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:29:09 +0000

I’ve used a couple softcubes from buhl electric… low heat, low enegery, great color and long bulb life. not a bad deal ;)

By: gary

gary — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:53:46 +0000

I bought some from Lidl and have used them for filming quite a bit. The light stand supplied is fine if bouncing the light but isn’t tall enough for some situations. But I found that I could combine the lamp head with some old Photax photoflood lampholders that I had and use it on the Photax light stands, which go up to about 8ft high. Minus points are that you don’t have any barn doors to control the light (could make some), or any spot/flood facility as on a pro light. But running costs are near zero, whereas with a pro lamp a bulb blowing would be a quite an expense.

By: paulr

paulr — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:26:12 +0000

Did you buy these screwfix lights inthe end. Was thinking of getting some myself but not sure of the quality, nice price though.

thanks