3rd-Party Studio Accessories

Hi all,

I'm currently investing in some home studio equipment. I decided to

go with the Bowens Gemini Esprit 500/500 kit as a staring point.

Since that's my entire photgraphic budget blown for the year, I need

to find a source of sensibly priced 3rd-party accessories. The

Bowens accessories are ludicrously priced - for example, who on Earth

wants to pay ?150 for a set of barn doors, or ?90 for a simple gel

filter holder? Not many amateurs, I'd wager.

I notice that the Interfit accessories use the S-Type fitting, and

are considerably cheaper. Do they all fit seamlessly on the Bowens

without any problem?

Are there any other suppliers that are even better value. I realise

that there is a big difference in quality between, for example,

various softboxes, but for things like filter holders and barn doors

I'm sure than my home studio will cope quite well with a cheap

solution. Cheap gels would be nice too

Note that I'm based in France, so I'd rather find either european

based supplier (probably UK based, since the competitive economy

brings the best deals).

Thanks for you advice,

Tim

Hi Tim

My english is verry poor (i'm french), and your message one year old, so i am in the same position as you, the difference is that I live in morroco, and here , you can find anything from bowens or another suppliers/

I have two multiblitz Compactlite, with beauty dish, softbox, combus, and umbrella, and i just buy a pair of torch Bowens, whith the QuadX 3000

I had questionned Bowens and Multiblitz, and they have the same response, they don't do this adaptator (V to S or S to V), for commercials reasons. they don't think that, if they don't want to see their custommers going to the other mark, they also stop the custommer who want to enter to their world.... commercial crisis? so the pidgeons are us, who must re-buy all the accessories when we have two marks. So the foxes are suppliers who see us with great open arms... good deal

Have you find a soluce to the others suppliers ?

it will be great for us

Ciao

Eric