I'm looking to buy a three way light kit preferably under $1000. There a lot of light kits listed on Ebay and from shady sites that pop up on Google. Can someone please tell me possibly the best place to get a kit? Or could someone could tell me where I can get the individual lights to make a kit? Thanks.

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As with most things video and audio related, I'd try B&H first: bhphotovideo.com.

Good luck.

Dennis

The standard B&H answer =). From what I see on their site, there aren't any kits listed. Do you know what I should be looking for, and do the lights usually have stands included? Furthermore, are stands generally universal in that any light can use them? Thanks.

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Stands are generally universal, all should have the same universal screw at the top that will fit any light.

Second off, a solid light kit for under $1,000 is very plausible, and B+H can do ya one better. Check out the Dmith Vector K63-C kit. Just search K63-C at the B+H site.

No kits? I hadn't checked nor have I bought any kits from B&H. But they have one of the most complete catalogs of any store I've seen. I guess I'm surprised they don't have any kits.

My fallback would be to Google for "photographic lighting kits" or something similar and see what comes back.

UPDATE: As I wrote this I had a feeling something was wrong. I went over to the B&H site and found several pages of lighting kits:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/shop/...ights_Kits.html
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/con...h=&cltp=&clsgr=
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/con...h=&cltp=&clsgr=
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/shop/...ories_Kits.html

Plenty of kits of all types to choose from.

Good luck.

Dennis

Lowel has some nice kits with a variety of big/small/soft/hard lights in the kits. Lowel is the world leader in location lighting and their DV Creator kits are the most popular kits by far. Here is a quick video to walk you through a few of the lights in a kit. If you have high speed internet this video might help give you an idea of what the lights do and how they function http://link.brightcove.com/services.../bctid203709670

BTW, you can also rent these kits if you're in a major city here is an example:
http://www.rule.com/productDesc.cfm?productID=225
http://www.vistek.ca/rentals/rental...x?categoryId=52
http://glazerscamera.com/rentals.html

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