Help me buy a… Studio flash kit

It doesn’t take long to exhaust the potential of your on-camera flash, and once you decide you need more power and flexibility than your flashgun can offer, you’re ready for a studio flash system. These can look complicated, but in reality they’re actually quite straightforward, consisting principally of three items: flash units, light stands, and lighting modifiers, like softboxes.

A studio flash system gives you lots of power, fast recycle times and the ability to shape and position the light much more controllably than you can with regular flashguns. Some offer sophisticated