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Birdcage Euro - Chimera

The Chimera Birdcage Lantern has emerged as a unique small light source. Stand it up, hang it, lay it down, or mount it onto a light stand with the clever Dual Axis Chimera Stand Adapter #3865. You get precision light placement where you want it. Use with or without the adjustable silver/black skirt.

Chimera Birdcage Lanterns are 14" tall, have a Mogul Base fixture for up to 500-watt lamps and a screw-in adapter for use with standard medium base lamps.

Stand Adapter and Lamp sold separately.

Panel Frames & Fabrics

Chimera gives you a wide variety of panel frames and fabrics that can help you create your lighting treatments quickly and easily. Buy them individually, or choose from seven kits—each priced to save you approximately 20% vs. buying each element separately. A great value!

- Frames are compact and rigid for increased versatility.
- An internal bungee cord keeps the frame segments together during storage and travel. Very convenient design.
- Different fabric accessories can be used on our frames to create either different degrees of diffused light or to create bounce light.
- Use Bobbinette Scrims on frames to reduce light intensity without altering color temperature.
- All frames feature our unique pin-grip system, which lets you set up and lock the frame in place with a single 2-1/2" Grip Head. You can also attach Panel Frames to light stands and arms with the same Grip Heads.
- No tools required!

Link to Chimera - Panel Frames and Fabrics

Panel Frames & Fabrics

Chimera gives you a wide variety of panel frames and fabrics that can help you create your lighting treatments quickly and easily. Buy them individually, or choose from seven kits—each priced to save you approximately 20% vs. buying each element separately. A great value!

- Frames are compact and rigid for increased versatility.
- An internal bungee cord keeps the frame segments together during storage and travel. Very convenient design.
- Different fabric accessories can be used on our frames to create either different degrees of diffused light or to create bounce light.
- Use Bobbinette Scrims on frames to reduce light intensity without altering color temperature.
- All frames feature our unique pin-grip system, which lets you set up and lock the frame in place with a single 2-1/2" Grip Head. You can also attach Panel Frames to light stands and arms with the same Grip Heads.
- No tools required!

Link to Chimera - Panel Frames and Fabrics

Panel Frames & Fabrics

Chimera gives you a wide variety of panel frames and fabrics that can help you create your lighting treatments quickly and easily. Buy them individually, or choose from seven kits—each priced to save you approximately 20% vs. buying each element separately. A great value!

- Frames are compact and rigid for increased versatility.
- An internal bungee cord keeps the frame segments together during storage and travel. Very convenient design.
- Different fabric accessories can be used on our frames to create either different degrees of diffused light or to create bounce light.
- Use Bobbinette Scrims on frames to reduce light intensity without altering color temperature.
- All frames feature our unique pin-grip system, which lets you set up and lock the frame in place with a single 2-1/2" Grip Head. You can also attach Panel Frames to light stands and arms with the same Grip Heads.
- No tools required!

Link to Chimera - Panel Frames and Fabrics

Panel Frames & Fabrics

Chimera gives you a wide variety of panel frames and fabrics that can help you create your lighting treatments quickly and easily. Buy them individually, or choose from seven kits—each priced to save you approximately 20% vs. buying each element separately. A great value!

- Frames are compact and rigid for increased versatility.
- An internal bungee cord keeps the frame segments together during storage and travel. Very convenient design.
- Different fabric accessories can be used on our frames to create either different degrees of diffused light or to create bounce light.
- Use Bobbinette Scrims on frames to reduce light intensity without altering color temperature.
- All frames feature our unique pin-grip system, which lets you set up and lock the frame in place with a single 2-1/2" Grip Head. You can also attach Panel Frames to light stands and arms with the same Grip Heads.
- No tools required!

Link to Chimera - Panel Frames and Fabrics

Panel Frames & Fabrics

Chimera gives you a wide variety of panel frames and fabrics that can help you create your lighting treatments quickly and easily. Buy them individually, or choose from seven kits—each priced to save you approximately 20% vs. buying each element separately. A great value!

- Frames are compact and rigid for increased versatility.
- An internal bungee cord keeps the frame segments together during storage and travel. Very convenient design.
- Different fabric accessories can be used on our frames to create either different degrees of diffused light or to create bounce light.
- Use Bobbinette Scrims on frames to reduce light intensity without altering color temperature.
- All frames feature our unique pin-grip system, which lets you set up and lock the frame in place with a single 2-1/2" Grip Head. You can also attach Panel Frames to light stands and arms with the same Grip Heads.
- No tools required!

Link to Chimera - Panel Frames and Fabrics

Panel Frames & Fabrics

Chimera gives you a wide variety of panel frames and fabrics that can help you create your lighting treatments quickly and easily. Buy them individually, or choose from seven kits—each priced to save you approximately 20% vs. buying each element separately. A great value!

- Frames are compact and rigid for increased versatility.
- An internal bungee cord keeps the frame segments together during storage and travel. Very convenient design.
- Different fabric accessories can be used on our frames to create either different degrees of diffused light or to create bounce light.
- Use Bobbinette Scrims on frames to reduce light intensity without altering color temperature.
- All frames feature our unique pin-grip system, which lets you set up and lock the frame in place with a single 2-1/2" Grip Head. You can also attach Panel Frames to light stands and arms with the same Grip Heads.
- No tools required!

Link to Chimera - Panel Frames and Fabrics

Panel Frames & Fabrics

Chimera gives you a wide variety of panel frames and fabrics that can help you create your lighting treatments quickly and easily. Buy them individually, or choose from seven kits—each priced to save you approximately 20% vs. buying each element separately. A great value!

- Frames are compact and rigid for increased versatility.
- An internal bungee cord keeps the frame segments together during storage and travel. Very convenient design.
- Different fabric accessories can be used on our frames to create either different degrees of diffused light or to create bounce light.
- Use Bobbinette Scrims on frames to reduce light intensity without altering color temperature.
- All frames feature our unique pin-grip system, which lets you set up and lock the frame in place with a single 2-1/2" Grip Head. You can also attach Panel Frames to light stands and arms with the same Grip Heads.
- No tools required!

Link to Chimera - Panel Frames and Fabrics

Panel Frames & Fabrics

Chimera gives you a wide variety of panel frames and fabrics that can help you create your lighting treatments quickly and easily. Buy them individually, or choose from seven kits—each priced to save you approximately 20% vs. buying each element separately. A great value!

- Frames are compact and rigid for increased versatility.
- An internal bungee cord keeps the frame segments together during storage and travel. Very convenient design.
- Different fabric accessories can be used on our frames to create either different degrees of diffused light or to create bounce light.
- Use Bobbinette Scrims on frames to reduce light intensity without altering color temperature.
- All frames feature our unique pin-grip system, which lets you set up and lock the frame in place with a single 2-1/2" Grip Head. You can also attach Panel Frames to light stands and arms with the same Grip Heads.
- No tools required!

Link to Chimera - Panel Frames and Fabrics

Panel Frames & Fabrics

Chimera gives you a wide variety of panel frames and fabrics that can help you create your lighting treatments quickly and easily. Buy them individually, or choose from seven kits—each priced to save you approximately 20% vs. buying each element separately. A great value!

- Frames are compact and rigid for increased versatility.
- An internal bungee cord keeps the frame segments together during storage and travel. Very convenient design.
- Different fabric accessories can be used on our frames to create either different degrees of diffused light or to create bounce light.
- Use Bobbinette Scrims on frames to reduce light intensity without altering color temperature.
- All frames feature our unique pin-grip system, which lets you set up and lock the frame in place with a single 2-1/2" Grip Head. You can also attach Panel Frames to light stands and arms with the same Grip Heads.
- No tools required!

Link to Chimera - Panel Frames and Fabrics

Panel Frames & Fabrics

Chimera gives you a wide variety of panel frames and fabrics that can help you create your lighting treatments quickly and easily. Buy them individually, or choose from seven kits—each priced to save you approximately 20% vs. buying each element separately. A great value!

- Frames are compact and rigid for increased versatility.
- An internal bungee cord keeps the frame segments together during storage and travel. Very convenient design.
- Different fabric accessories can be used on our frames to create either different degrees of diffused light or to create bounce light.
- Use Bobbinette Scrims on frames to reduce light intensity without altering color temperature.
- All frames feature our unique pin-grip system, which lets you set up and lock the frame in place with a single 2-1/2" Grip Head. You can also attach Panel Frames to light stands and arms with the same Grip Heads.
- No tools required!

Link to Chimera - Panel Frames and Fabrics

Panel Frames & Fabrics

Chimera gives you a wide variety of panel frames and fabrics that can help you create your lighting treatments quickly and easily. Buy them individually, or choose from seven kits—each priced to save you approximately 20% vs. buying each element separately. A great value!

- Frames are compact and rigid for increased versatility.
- An internal bungee cord keeps the frame segments together during storage and travel. Very convenient design.
- Different fabric accessories can be used on our frames to create either different degrees of diffused light or to create bounce light.
- Use Bobbinette Scrims on frames to reduce light intensity without altering color temperature.
- All frames feature our unique pin-grip system, which lets you set up and lock the frame in place with a single 2-1/2" Grip Head. You can also attach Panel Frames to light stands and arms with the same Grip Heads.
- No tools required!

Link to Chimera - Panel Frames and Fabrics

Panel Frames & Fabrics

Chimera’s Professional Panel Kits provide a time-tested method of lighting through and reflecting off of Chimera’s top quality fabrics.  The ample variety of fabric combinations and frame sizes will exceed many of your lighting needs.  All panel kits come complete in a tough ballistic cloth duffle for convenient carrying.

Pro Panel Kits

Link to Chimera Panel Kits

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Collapsible, portable, and extremely lightweight, fabric grids have no supporting frame of their own. These grids hook & loop to all four sides of the Chimera Lightbank's front recess area to provide a controlled beam spread.

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Chimera Lanterns:  Delivering practicality, durability and simply beautiful light. 

Based on the concept of the traditional Chinese lantern, Chimera’s line of Lanterns are a great modern-day solution for omni-directional soft lighting. There are three types of lanterns available: the standard Chimera Lantern, the truly unique and extremely popular Pancake Lantern and our newest addition the Birdcage Lantern, a complete, small area light source that uses mogul based lamps.

Link to Chimera - Lanterns

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Lightbank Litepanels 1x1 - Chimera

Introducing Chimera LED Lightbanks for soft, beautiful light. The innovators at Chimera have done it again! We’re introducing our new line of Chimera LED Lightbanks—the perfect way to get the most out of your LED technology, and still create beautiful, diffused talent-friendly light.

Chimera LED Lightbank Kits include.
LED Lightbank body.
LED Speed Ring.
LED revolutionary front screen.

LED screens also available in a variety of beam angles!

14.75" x 14.75" x 7" (L x W x D)

37,47 x 37,47 x 17,78 cm (L x W x D)

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Microbank - Chimera

Chimera Micro Kits give you a complete solution for on-camera video lights. 

If you’re looking for a natural look with soft, even lighting and no harsh shadows, Chimera Micro Kits are your ideal choice.

Micro Bank body.
All mounting hardware for your specific light. (No separate Speed Ring is needed.)
Comes with two quick mounting 5” x 7” front diffusion screens: one standard full density and one quarter density “silent fabric.”
Easily mounts and locks onto a standard 5/8” stud. (not included)

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 Mini/Maxi Banks: Get studio quality soft lighting on-the-go!

- Tailored for use with portable on-camera strobes.
- No internal baffles.
- Available in white or silver interiors.
- For use with all Chimera’s on-camera Speed Rings and Strobe Speed Rings.
- Use a Chimera Stand Adapter to mount your portable strobe/Lightbank combination to a light stand.
- You can also mount your portable strobe/Lightbank combination directly to your camera using a variety of camera brackets.

All Mini/Maxi Banks come complete with:

- Lightbank body with sewn-in front screen.
- Four poles.
- Carry sack.
- Industry-leading warranty.

* Speed Rings sold separately.

Link to Chimera - Mini Maxi Banks

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It is the world’s first collapsible, transportable, lightweight Beauty Dish. You can take it anywhere.  It creates stunning soft light with round catch lights.  A Center Bounce Disc reflects the “raw” light from your light source into the soft white reflector.  As a result, you are able to light people perfectly, and achieve a round catchlight in their eyes.

And it’s convertible!  Transform it into an OctaPlus Lightbank by adding the supplied Front Diffuser Screen.  It creates a two-foot OctaPlus that’s highly portable.  And it becomes a folding location 24" reflector for a studio bare tube flash head when center disc and front screen are not used.  

The Octa 2 Beauty Dish works with Standard OctaPlus Speed Rings for studio strobes and with the new adjustable Versi Octa Speed Ring for on-camera flash units.

Any still photographer and lighting specialist will want it, both for location and studio shooting.

Chimera's Octa 2 Beauty Dish #6010 consists of:

• A 24” collapsible, folding Octa 2 Beauty Dish body.  
• Pre-curved Stainless Steel Poles.
• A Center Bounce Disc.
• An Octa Plus Front Screen
• Rear closure for use with camera flash.

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Available in Standard and Strip Banks.

- These flush screen Lightbanks have been the industry standard for more than 30 years.
- Delivers uncompromised Chimera light quality in an economical design.
- The flush front screen produces a broader light resulting in a softer edge on your subject.
- Use multiple PRO II Lightbanks in order to create a seamless larger light source.
- Comes with a white interior.
- A removable internal baffle increases diffusion and gives a more even spread of light across the front screen.  Remove it when you need more power!
- A streamlined rear opening can accept either one or two strobes at a time.
- When time is of the essence, the sewn-in front screen allows fast set-up and tear down.
- PRO II Banks are available in four sizes.
- PRO II Strip Banks are available in three sizes.

All PRO II Lightbanks come complete with:

- Lightbank body with sewn-in front screen.
- Four poles.
- Removable internal baffle.
- Carry sack.
- Industry-leading warranty.

* Speed Rings sold separately.

Link to Chimera - PRO II Lightbanks

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 Quartz Lightbanks use exclusive compound fabrics and other quality materials and are built to withstand the rigors of high temperatures from lights up to 12,000 watts for hours at a time.   Quartz Lightbanks are standard depth Lightbanks designed to modify HMI PAR and Tungsten Open Faced Lights into a big, beautiful, broad source.

Link to Chimera - Quartz Lightbanks

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The center of the Chimera Lightbank System is the Speed Ring, wich allows you to connect your Lightbank to a continuous source lighting instrument. Dedicated Speed Rings ar uniquely designed to fit a specific lighting fixtur.

Link to Chimera - Speed Rings Finder Tool

Don´t find the speedring you need? Please contact us.

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The center of the Chimera Lightbank System is the Speed Ring, wich allows you to connect your Lightbank to your Strobe Light or Flash.

Link to Chimera - Speed Rings Finder Tool

Don´t find the speedring you need? Please contact us.

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Available in Standard, Shallow and Strip styles. The Standard and Shallow Super PRO Lightbanks can accept up to three flash heads using accessory brackets. 

- Offers natural, window-like lighting that’s controllable and perfect for your subjects.
- A removable internal baffle increases diffusion and gives a more even spread of light across the front screen.  Remove it when you need more power!
- Features a recessed front screen that controls lens flare and fall-off and allows accessories to be attached.
- Choose silver interior walls for slightly more specular highlights, or white interior walls, for a more even spread of light across the front screen.
- Can use 1/4 and 1/2 grid Front Screens to achieve more light transmission.
- Five sizes available in Standard Banks, four sizes available in Shallow Banks and three sizes available in Strip Banks.

Super PRO Shallow Lightbanks

This design offers a 20% thinner profile from front-to-back, so you can shoot in smaller spaces.  This is especially true in medium and large sizes.

Super PRO Strip Lightbanks

These Lightbanks are 30% thinner and create a narrow light that’s very even.  They’re ideal for accent and edge lighting.

All Super PRO Lightbanks come complete with:

- Lightbank body.
- Four poles.
- Removable internal baffle.
- Carry sack.
- Standard front screen.
- Industry-leading warranty.

* Speed Rings sold separately.

Link to Chimera - Super Pro Banks

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Video PRO Shallow Lightbanks are 30% thinner than Video PRO Standard Lightbanks allowing Video PRO Shallow Lightbanks to be used in smaller shooting spaces.

 Video PRO Shallow Lightbanks are available in two models:

- Plus 1 Screen has the standard detachable front screen 

- Plus 3 Screen comes equipped with three front screens, standard, and less dense 1/2 and 1/4 grid.

Link to Chimera - Video PRO Lightbanks

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Video PRO Standard Lightbanks are the perfect answer for controlled soft lighting on small sets, or for use as a separation light or small fill. These standard-depth banks are extremely light weight and are primarily used with single broad-beamed, open-faced instruments.

Video PRO Standard Lightbanks are the Lightbanks of choice for a majority of the Dedicated Speed Rings, and they will fit all of the Circular Speed Rings, from 3 to 9 inches (7.6 to 23 cm) in diameter. Fresnels up to 2000 watts can also be used, especially if diffusion is used in the gel holder to spread the beam.

Video PRO  Standard Lightbank sizes range from XXS to Large.

Video PRO Lightbanks are available in two models:

- Plus 1 Screen has the standard detachable front screen 

- Plus 3 Screen comes equipped with three front screens, standard, and less dense 1/2 and 1/4 grid.

Link to Chimera - Video PRO Lightbanks