I recently had a Photogenic studio flash unit repaired.  This was my first repair on any of my Photogenic units ever and I have owned them for over sixteen years. Not bad!

When the unit came back, I marked the date of repair on it and added the repair info to my equipment list. Since I have three identical Photogenic units, I want to know which unit had the repair in case I have other problems. Marking the unit this way is a time saving monitoring tip. Similar to labeling other equipment purchases like I talked about above in my personal message, this makes for fast and headache free organization.

Just two weeks ago, a different Photogenic unit tipped over and fell to the floor. Okay, that freaked me out, but since a client was near by, I had to play it really cool. I did not have the tripod legs spread out adequately enough and got it tangled up in a background I was whipping around. Anyway, the unit was fine and no customers were injured! I only broke the modeling lamp, which is to be expected with fall like that. The modeling lamp is the cheapest part. I always keep spare parts and it did not slow me down.

A couple other things I happen to like about Photogenics is that, unlike Eilenchrome, I can change the flash tube myself. I also actually like the fact that they are not as high powered so I can shoot with larger apertures to throw the background out of focus in my portrait work.