LET THERE BE LIGHT
For a home studio setup, or if you’re shooting indoors on location, there’s no beating the power and versatility of a conventional mains-powered flash kit. Prime options include the likes of the Elinchrom D-Lite and Interfit Honey Badger twin-head kits, which are fairly compact and easy to carry around, yet simple to set up and use.
The chief limitation of these kits becomes an issue if you want the option of being able to shoot outdoors, using a flash head to supplement natural daylight – mains-powered kits won’t be much use if there’s nowhere to plug them in. With that in mind, there’s a growing range of battery-powered flash heads, which are vastly more powerful than flashguns; when supplementing the sun or even overpowering it to turn day into night, you’re only likely to need a single flash head, but twin-head kits are also widely available. If you’re shooting video any flash head is of course useless, and this is where the alternative of a
