Alien Bees vs. Photogenic

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Submitted By: LarryBoy

Joined: Dec 2 2006

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Alien Bees vs. Photogenic

Posted: December 2, 2006 - 10:11pm

Sorry if this has been hashed over before. I'm in the process of researching lights for my start up studio. My budget for 3 lights with stands and umbrellas is about $800. I think I've narrowed it down to either 3 Alien Bees B400 flash units or Photogenic 2-AKC320 and 1-AKC160 flash units. Does anyone here have any experience with these units. Thanks for your input!

Submitted By: Larry Berman

Location: Pittsburgh

Joined: Mar 7 2005

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Re: Alien Bees vs. Photogenic

Posted: December 3, 2006 - 4:45am

Not with the lighting you've asked about. But I do recommend one of the three lights be more powerful as the other two. It will give you more lighting options and make it easier to use with a modifier like softbox or umbrella.

Submitted By: LarryBoy

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Re: Alien Bees vs. Photogenic

Posted: January 8, 2007 - 9:03pm

I ended up getting the Alien Bees monolights. I got 2 B800 and 2 B400 units. They seem to have plenty of power for what I'm going to be using them for primarily which is small group and single portrait work. In fact I had to dial the B800 down to 1/16 power to get the f-stop setting I wanted at ISO 100. Could have easily gotten by with all B400 units. So far am very pleased with the performance.