I was out impulse shopping last week and came across a set of lights in a case that I couldn't pass up for the price. It was a lightly used set of Photogenic Powerlight 1250 DR's (monolights) , complete with brand new, medium sized Photoflex Platinum soft boxes, Chimera quick release speed rings and an almost new, Kata large rolling case. Turn key for about $600. I brought them home, played with them. Liked them and decided that having two different sets of monolights is NOT downsizing. One set has to go. Since I'm still in the honeymoon period with the Photogenics it looks like I'm breaking up with the Elinchrom monolights.
I sold off my Profoto strobes to buy four Elinchrom D-Lites because I was also using an Elinchrom Ranger RX AS power pack and heads and they all shared the same reflectors and other accessories. This model, the Elinchrom D-Lite4 it has a lot of great features. First of all, each one of these is about 1/3 the weight of my older, power equivalent Profoto monolights. The interface on the back is digital and the lights have built in thermal protection and cooling fans. The D-Lite 4 it is a 400 watt second unit with a recycling time of around 1.6 seconds at full power and a full power flash time of 1/800th.
You can use the digital controls on the back to change the power settings from full down to some small minimum in 1/10th stop increments. You can ratio the modeling light, use it on full or turn it off altogether.
I bought all four of my Elinchrom D-Lite 4 it flashes back in June or July of 2011 but they came at a time when I was omitted with LEDs and then fluorescent lights so they haven't seen the daily, hard work they would have had they arrived on my scene back in the earlier days. All four work well, haven't been dropped and aren't beaten up. They come with a protective front cap made of some space age polycarbonate. They come with a 100 watt modeling light and a sync cord. They have a built in optical slave but, unlike the model replacing them now, they don't have built in radio slaves.
I am hoping to sell them to someone who needs a good set of lights and who lives somewhere within 100 miles of Austin but if that doesn't happen I'll be happy to sell them and ship them anywhere in the Continental U.S.A. I'm asking $125 for each one. Buy all four and you can have them for $400. Since I don't offer Kirk Prime there will also be a packing and shipping charge of $15 per light or $25 for all four lights shipped to the same address.
If you are interested send me along your queries via the moderated comments on this blog. I won't post your comments if they are about the purchase of these units but will use it to get in touch with you so be sure to leave me an e-mail address to respond to.
Help me downsize yet again!
Edit: August 10th. Thank you! The lights have been sold.
Extra bonus: free personal delivery and free coffee conversation for purchaser
located in Austin.
4 comments:
Kirk do,these come with any accessories or just lights? I'm very interested. Have been wanting to learn about studio lighting and this seems like a good,place to start
Hi Sanjay, just the reflector, the power cable and the sync cable. Which is pretty much the basics.You can add umbrellas pretty inexpensively.
Hello Kirk,
I'm interested in purchasing all four lights if they haven't been sold off already. I've been planning on making the leap from hotshoe flashes to studio strobes for a while as I await (keeping fingers crossed) acquiring studio space. My email is attached for follow up. Thanks.
Never mind, just saw the updated sold text :(.
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