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I been wanting to get into product and stock photography for a while and yesterday I pulled the trigger on a Bowens strobe kit.

Bowens esprit gemeni 250w kit

The Bowens esprit gemeni 250w kit contains:

2 x Sturdy flash tripods.
1 x Umbrella that can be converted to white, silver or shoot through.
1 x 80x60cm Softbox (Bloody nightmare to assemble hehe)
2 x 250W strobe heads.
1 x 4 meter sync cable.

The whole kit comes in a VERY nice carrying bag with built in wheels which is nice since the kit is kinda heavy to lug around.

The strobes has a 250W modelling light that can be adjusted step-less, or the modelling light can be proportional, which means whatever the flash is set at the modelling lights will match.

Flash is adjustable in fine steps down to 1/32 stop.

Other features include: Audible beep when flash is ready, modelling lights can be set to turn of until the flash is ready so it’s easy to see if all the heads have fired. Slave cell so the heads can be triggered by a normal camera flash.

The Esprit Gemeni series strobes can all be powered by batteries if needed for on location stuff, where no mains power is available.

The heads will accept all accessories from the Bowens range, such as beauty dishes, ring flashes, larger umbrellas and softboxes, brolly boxes etc…

I’m still playing around with the kit, but so far the light produced looks great.