ShowMaven 45W Dimmable LED Light with Double Color Temperature Continuous Lighting Studio Kit,3 Packs 20x28 Inches Studio Softbox, for Photo Studio Portrait, Video Shooting

Impressive. For not a lot of money, the lighting is massively improved from a single source. Beyond, the tripods are lightweight, not superb but adequate for their job. There are instructions but they are not super explicit. It's worth noting that the rods to spread out the umbrellas insert into the lights' rims themselves. Literally, a round peg into a square hole. The proper order is stand up tripod, don umbrella, stick rods into light and then fit the umbrella. Be careful, there's not a great deal of stress these plastic receptacles can take but I'm hoping the canvas relaxes with some time. Functionally, the spectrum is beautiful and diverse, the dimmability is proportionate and little heat from LED technology. This is a good product.

Hard to beat the cost of this setup. For beginners and some professional work, depending on what you're doing. Works awesome for what I need to do. I would advise making or getting sandbags to hold it down, this stuff is super light.

I purchased the softboxes for a YT channel. The kit comes with 3 led lights that are switchable from white to amber color temps. Putting them together is not too easy the first time till you figure out how it all goes together, but wasn't too bad and once you do it once, you'll be fine. At first I was really impressed. They are really bright on full intensity. I found the stands to be pretty good quality and nothing was tipping over. The issue is the potentiometers in the led lighting. I'm not sure if they are just really low quality pots (the electronics that turn with the knob that adjusts brightness), or if its other electronics in the light. Personally, I am guessing its a bad sweep in a cheap pot. That's tech talk for cheap brightness adjustment parts. If you leave the lights on full bright (knob turned all the way clockwise) or at its lowest setting, then they seem to work just fine. But I needed to setup a scene that looked perfect in my webcam. My ideal setting at night is a little higher than "low". The knobs are soooo sensitive in the lower range. You barely touch them and it gets bright so quickly, then the rest of turning the knob does almost nothing as it's near full brightness after just a slight turn. Honestly, for the price I would have been ok with messing with it, but the issue is that even if you get it where you want it, the lights flicker between the current setting and either brighter or lower. The change is fairly drastic so you get a light that is changing brightness constantly. Two of the three lights do this severely and the 3rd one does it too, but it's not as finicky and I can get it to work most of the time. I have contacted the company today. I can report back if it gets resolved, but I may just pack it up and return it and try another brand... I contacted company and they told me to return it. I did and re-bought it. The lights I received seem smaller than the last ones but they are big enough for my needs and it could just be my imagination. In any case, the new replacement lights are the same it's just the softbox part that is possibly smaller. Even though the lights seem like the same ones, these do jot have the flickering issue the old ones had. I have had them now for weeks and the are solid. I'm really happy with them and they really make the scene look well lit and higher quality.

I needed an entry-level studio lighting kit for photographing my guitar builds. Being a novice at photography, I didn't want to start with high-end lighting only to end up using only 10% of its capabilities until I began to understand not just lighting principles but also my DSLR camera. The instructions aren't the best, but if one is mechanically inclined enough, the rig can be assembled by oneself with a little trial and error. When I assembled the studio setting for the photos attached, this was my second time putting the setup together so it went much faster. With the backdrop consisting of a simple set of king-sized bed sheets from the local store, I was able to set up the lights and experiment with positioning very easily. The package does not include anything for the counterweight bag that attaches to the overhead boom light, however (or at least, mine didn't include anything). It's up to the customer to find something suitably heavy but compact enough to fit in the bag (I estimate it's about 3-4" in width).

Since day one, these lights have all made a noise when turned on to their full brightness. The only solution is to turn the brightness down to the lowest setting, which defeats the purpose of having adjustable light! I wrote the company and they said, "When the temperature of light is high, the cooling fan will work to get the temperature down. The humming noise is coming from fan. It is normal" I shouldn't have to wait for a humming noise to go away or be worried about the temperature of the internal fan. It took a month to send me a replacement, but they only sent one and it did the same thing. Now I am stuck with 3 loud humming not bright lights and no response from the company! AGAIN, DO NOT BUY THIS LIGHT KIT =(

This is my first light box set up for youtube videos and its perfect. Way better lighting than the ceiling light or natural lighting that comes from my window. You are able to control which direction the lighting comes from and from what angle and how bright or not bright it is. The bulb isn't actually a light bulb. It's like a flashlight so you don't need to replace it like a ceiling fan bulb. Plug the cord in to it and just turn it in. I'm assuming this isn't even high end equipment but I don't so happy with it. I was shopping for the cheapest I could find. This is a steal for beginners. I already got 90 subscribers on my youtube channel in a week since I started using it. Next is just a shotgun mic and editing software/editing software skills

I've had this lighting kit for about a year now. I took a chance, ordering it, not knowing what I would get. I love it. I use it in a small studio to do self tape auditions for T.V. I would readily recommend this kit to anyone. I often recommend it to other actor friends.

We bought these to use in our house and different video shoots while traveling. They work well and are very bright. Unfortunately they're not very portable. It takes a lot of time to assemble and dismantle them. If you want lights that stay in a room these will work. If you want something portable then look elsewhere.