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where to buy cheap color gels for studio strobes?

 
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Nov 27, 2014 12:58 |  #1

Looking to pick up a few sheets of color gels (orange, blue, green, purple, pink etc..). I just need something cheap that i can clip onto an alien bee reflector. Located in the US or Canada. Online retailer preferred. I don't mind if it takes months to arrive (aka ebay style shipping).


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Nov 27, 2014 14:34 |  #2

Do you mean something like THIS (external link)?


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Nov 27, 2014 15:35 |  #3

kenwood33 wrote in post #17296277 (external link)
Looking to pick up a few sheets of color gels (orange, blue, green, purple, pink etc..). I just need something cheap that i can clip onto an alien bee reflector. Located in the US or Canada. Online retailer preferred. I don't mind if it takes months to arrive (aka ebay style shipping).

If you have the standard 7" reflector you'll need at least an 8"x10" gel. The 8" dimension comfortably covers the width of the reflector and the 10" dimension gives you a bit of room to wrap the gel around the edge of the reflector with a bit of slack to allow for some airflow.

Cheap is relative. You can get industry standard Rosco gels in most cities and from major online retailers. The most economical way would be to buy some 20"x24" sheets which you can easily cut down to yield six 8x10 gels per $8 sheet, which works out to $1.33 per 8x10 gel. Fairly inexpensive and you'll have a few extra gels of each colour. You can get precut 8x10 gels but they'll cost you several times as much.

PCB sells nylon clips that adhere to the sides of the reflector. Attach these and you never have to mess around with tape or carry around a bunch of bulldog clips.

http://www.paulcbuff.c​om/clips.php (external link)




  
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