Can i trust this page: www.filmandvideolighting.com ?

Much of the rage is about soft lighting like Kino's and the coming of better LEDs. But for a budget, and versatility, it is hard to ignore a good tungsten fresnel kit with some softboxes. It gives you focused hard lights, soft lighting, kickers, etc all from one set of lights. For $3000 you can get a reasonable kit of Arris which will last forever. All of the major retailers have Arri kits. There are other brands as well like Mole-Richardson and others. Here is a typical Arri kit which is very versatile, except you might want to add another softbox and speedring.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/72161-REG/Arri_571984_Softbank_I_Tungsten_4.html

The biggest downsides to tungsten is it needs more power and is hot.

If you know you need soft light, then flos might be the way to go, but you can't make hard light out of soft.

Shooting outside is pretty tough with anything in your price range. Flos (with daylite bulbs) don't have much throw, and you will need to gel tungstens to correct for WB, which reduces your output by 1/2. You might need to rent something big for those occasions. You might also try a scrim jim with reflective cover and use the sun, but you need complete control of set and timing for this to work.

Grant
 
Hi ggrantly,

thank you for the link. It's possible to ajust the amount of light on the arri?
 
Yes, there are several ways:

The Arri kit comes with metal screen scrims, or you can scrim the light in other ways.
You can adjust the focus on the fresnels which changes the intensity.
You can use dimmers on the power cords.
In some cases, you can get lamps of different wattage for a given lamp base.

Grant
 
Personally, I would get all daylight sources or items that can double as daylight sources like kino's. The Cool lights daylight fresnels are pretty awesome.
 
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