Chimera selection

[drew_town]

I just bought an Arri 650 fresnel and would like to outfit it with a Chimera soft box. There's a lot of different models and styles to choose from. Does anyone have a recommendation? Best bang for the buck recommendations? Generic brands that are good? It would be nice to keep it around $400. I'd like a really soft image to use for close-ups and interviews. Thanks.

[Stephen Williams]

I'd like a really soft image to use for close-ups and interviews. Thanks.

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The larger the soft box the softer the light will be.

 

Stephen

[Francisco Valdez]

Photoflex makes a softbox called cinedome or something like that, which are designed to be used with fesnels. They're longer than regular softboxes to compensate for the narrow spread of fresnels light.

 

The cinedome gives you the option to use one or two diffusion materials in front of the lamp, which renders a very diffused and soft-like light.

 

It's true, the larger the source surface, the softer the light. Take into account, that in the threedimensional world size is relative to distance, so a large object far away, would apear to be small.