Chimera softboxes

[Jannie]

Looking at the medium and small Chimera softboxea for tabletop work with my Elinchrom lights, any advice?

I love working wigh my Elinchrom octoboxes but it's become apparent that I could use grids and or flags that attach to the sides of the light, working in a small space gets crowded when I add more grip stands than I'm normally using for flags and such.

I'm looking at the Chimera rectangular medium and small with the silver lining and will probably make my own velcro'd flags to start with and then invest in a couple of 40degree grids as money becomes available. This when complete will cost me a lot but since there is no more noise from Elinchrom about making grids ,it's apparent I might want to look at alternatives . This might facilitate selling my 53" octobox to help with the expenses.

I notice Chimera has two different speedrings for Elinchrom, any suggestions as to elwhich works the best.
Thanksp

[bobbyz]

Why not get photoflex as their grids are decent prices compared to others?

[picturecrazy]

I use the Chimera Daylite Junior Plus I believe. I think that's what it's called. It works well with my elinchrom lights, and accepts grids made by lighttools inc. The recessed grid area was very important to me. It's only 16x22 so it's about as small they come. I like it. It is great for tabletop work. I'm not sure which speedring I bought for it though... I'll try and look for a part number on it or something. What's also nice is that I bought a Chimera speedlite speedring so I can also use a 580EX in it too if I want to go portable.