Complete 3 strobes studio system! The high quality BY-180B strobe by Beijing YinYan is shown picture below. (ISO9001/2000 and CE certified - Guaranteed quality, --- that is improved version of BY-160B with more power: High quality components and build quality, better safety, more stable and higher color temperature, accurate and stable flashing flux/intensity, visual and sound ready indicators, continuous power adjustment, long-life flash tube (made in Germany) , US distributor full support and warranty, etc):

You shall always check the YinYan logo (See the picture above for BY-180B and picture below for BY-160B). There are some cheap counterfeit strobes out there, which look very similar. Sometime they are marked with BY-160B or -180B model (the BY- meant to stand for "Bejing Yinyan"). You shall check with Yinyan US distributor at www.yinyan.us before buying those similarly looking strobe online. Beware, otherwise you will be regret. Keep in mind we are THE only dealer are authorized to sell BY-model on ebay!

The other low quality of cheap Chinese strobes you might have seen online look like as shown below, which is made by unknown factory and brand.

Recently, we found some ebayers copied us to sell similar set for less. They made very impressive website and pictures. Beware of the strobes they are selling. Those are cheap and low quaility strobes, as shown picture below, although they might have changed color or shape or even the back control panel:

They sticked own made-up "brand" names, do not dare to provide you with the manufacture information. Stay away from those strobes!  Those strobes have low color temperature, with no accurate and stable flashing flux/intensity at all, often with low life time. As an example, a 3^rd rate factory/shop like this one, click to see, in a remote area of China put together cheap strobes. Products like that might have often ended up in eBay with re-branded names (check eBay very carefully). Worst of all, they might have also claimed ISO9001/2000 and CE certified on eBay. Why is this so important? Because an ISO9001/2000 and CE certified company, like Beijing Yinyan, has an international standard imposed to manufacture the products. They have to follow the rules in terms of process, quality control, parts sourcing, materials used, order process, conform regulations, import/export process, documentation, etc.  Such complied company has to be scheduled for being audited each year. We spent lots of time study on eBay lighting products, and traced back to China factories, and found most of claimed ISO9001/2000 products actually NOT! As a buyer (consumer) like you, if you prefer to play by rule, just for honest reason per se, you shall buy our Beijing Yinyan!

At Beijing Yinyan:

Here are three tips for "Don't":

·        Don't buy if you CANNOT find original manufacture for those products/brands (people made up own brands often);

·        Don't buy if there is NO authorized US dealer/distributor here and offer 12-month full warranty and services.

• Don't buy if the manufacture of the products/brands is NOT an ISO9001/2000 and CE certified brand.

A guy emailed us that he spent 5 days search online, and found a kit on eBay that was about $30 cheaper than ours. Now he regrets for the poor quality strobes he got and has no manufacture information. Over 5000 buyers checked these tips and chose Yinyan. Most of Yinyan's customers are very happy with this 3-strobe kit. A customer who started her business with this kit has been so happy with this set and so allows me to link her website as a reference, please click here to see all her work with this kit.  An amateur who bought this kit started with his still-life photos and portraits, and very happy with the results so he emailed me his link to share with you, click here to see his still-life photos are produced with the light set. Two beginning amateur photographers who bought this kit kindly allow me to link their websites to show their work by using this kit, most time they  use only one BY-160B strobe as key light and the reflector to fill (click to see): samples1 and sample2.