You can change your self the flash tube if it broke. Very acurate. Construction very good (metal)and come with a protective cover for the flash tube. You can turn off the modeling light, independant of the flash. You can select a noise ''bip'' to indicate you when the flash are full charge of select the modeling light that turn off after shooting and when the flash came back full charge, the modeling light turn on.

The bag who came with it, was broke after my fisrt use. So the distributor in Canada replace it by an other one , a Opus made and it's much better quality. The light stand who come with it, are a Manfrotto 052 and they should give Manfrotto 004 instead for more stability.

l replaced my old Courtenay flashes by the Bowens Esprit II, 500 watts kit. It come with 2 light stand, 1 sofbox, 1 umbrella, the reflector and a bag. After many shooting, l found thoses flashes very acurate and good lighting with stability of the flash. l'm very glad of it, the best unit that l ever had. Yhe only regrets that the smaller Bowens flash (Esprit II, 125 watts) is not available in 110 volts for north america. It should be a good hair light flash.

Customer Service

In Canada, very good service.

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Courtenay 5000 & 8000.

Very sturdy, compact and easy to handle.
Adjustable over 5(!) f stops.
Nearly no deviation in output(0.1 fstop max.)

No autobleed and not very accurate settings.
If you turn the dial back 1 stop output reduces by 0.6 f stop or more or less.
you need to measure!

I have 3 units of 500W/S togetheter with some softboxes and umbrellas.I use them on location and in the studio.The are easy to us, very reliable and sturdy, the give a high output and the colour balance is very neutral.
The are very affordable and they are my favorite
lightingset.

Customer Service

Not needed

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Multiblitz