Chimera Softbox
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Chimeras are a brand of softboxes for a variety of different light fixtures. They have 4 components. The Softbox itself, a removable face, poles, and a speedring.
There are a few different styles of softboxes.
- Quartz - Shallower bank designed for use with open face lights.
- Daylight - A daylight bank is much deeper than other banks. Designed for fresnel lights.
- Video Pro - A low wattage softbox with a shallow bank. These are mostly used on tungsten lights 1k and below and HMI's 800 and below.
- Octabank - A rounded softbox with 8 poles instead of 4. Mostly used for interview or beauty lighting.
- Plus - It is uncommon to see this deliniation much anymore, but plus banks are the ones with the removable faces. Non-Plus banks have a full chimera white sewn in.