This Chimera Quick Release Speed Ring allows mounting of Chimera, or almost any other brand rectangular softbox to the Profoto Series of flash heads.
The Quick Release Series releases the tension of the wands in the frame of your softbox, allowing it to collapse easily for breakdown, or for moving on quickly to the next setup without disassembling the box.
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Love these speedrings because the sliding inner ring lets me rotate my strip softboxes freely when I'm working fast, instead of having to go to the head, loosen the ring, spin it, and retighten the ring. For that reason I only use these on set. My significant gripe is the little washers that hold the ring on are tiny and inevitably fail catastrophically. I've gotten extra washers from Chimera and fixed mine several times. But I put on a lot of wear on these and I can't afford to have one go out when I'm shooting, so I've taken to carrying a spare (annoying!). I've looked at modifying some larger washers or milling little replacement parts that will do the job better, but haven't gotten around to it yet. If you have, please contact me. Save this one critical flaw it's a terrific speedring. If you don't need that extra on-the-fly spinning functionality though, you can save a couple bucks with a static one and never have a softbox of Damocles dangling over your subject.
I'm an old school Chimera user since the mid 80s. I tried this to see if I was missing something. It ended up taking more time to use and was much harder to deal with. I returned it and got the regular ring http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/13811-REG.