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This Simple Tutorial Will Show You How to Add Filtration to Any Lens Ever Made
If you're anything like me, you probably spend some of your free time scouring sites like KEH and eBay for vintage lenses (and buying way more of them than you probably should). Occasionally, you come...
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A Heartbreaking Music Video & the Inspiring Creative Process of Bringing It...
Painful memories and guilt can destroy us. We re-live these moments again and again, until they become nothing more than warped distortions of themselves. Our first introduction to August Bradley came...
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Sigma's New Ceramic Lens Filters are Super-Strong & Repel Water
If you're shooting in a difficult environment, where there's inconsistent weather or potentially people bumping into your lenses, it's nice to know you've got a filter protecting your expensive...
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KipperTie Develops a Series of Full Spectrum OLPFs for RED Cameras
The optical low pass filters create the kind of looks that you just can't replicate in post-production. KipperTie is a new company that started as a production and rental resource but is now expanding...
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New SLR Magic Image Enhancer Filter Can Improve Your Skin
SLR Magic released its latest product, the Image Enhancer Pro filter that is targeted at cutting light more evenly across the spectral range. Digital sensors see outside the range of human vision—with...
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'Travelers' Cinematographer on Lensing for Character in New Netflix Series
Cinematographer Neville Kidd captured Netflix's Travelers using RED and Cooke Optics. When a cinematographer visually depicts the personality of a character, it has the power to immerse the audience...
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Taking Your Extreme Fisheye Lens to Extreme Shoots? Tadashi's Filter Has You...
Filtration for fisheye lenses has always been difficult, but Tadashi has a solution for extreme filmmakers at a nearly disposable price. For certain portions of the filmmaking world, a fisheye isn't...
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Tiffen's New Filters Are So Neutral You'd Think They're Natural
Perfect for those times when you need your image as flat as possible. Tiffen just gave us the inside scoop on their new Neutral Density filters, the Natural ND. Named after Tiffen's founder, Naturals...
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ARRI Introduces New External Full Spectrum ND Filters
ARRI's external NDs are designed for easy mounting. In order to meet current image quality standards, camera manufacturing giant ARRI has released a new Full Spectrum Neutral Density filter. While the...
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Field Test: Save Yourself Sky Replacement with Inexpensive Grad Filters From H&Y
H&Y filters are selling inexpensive DSLR-friendly grad filters that can save you time in post. For a long while, grad filters were a must on all exterior shoots, pushed to amazing creative heights...
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You Won't Need to Color Correct with Tiffen's New ND Filters
Tiffen unveils some beauties. Tiffen has released its newest line of ND filters, The Tiffen NATural ND, named after the founder Nat Tiffen. The NATural ND filters are Tiffen's most color neutral...
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Schneiders' New Radiant Soft Filters Hit the Sweet Spot
Schneider’s new diffusion filter line gives cinematographers the ability to give their subject’s skin a radiant, soft glow, while maintaining control over the contrast. Engineers at Schneider had been...
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Schneider Releases Its Most Versatile ND Filter Yet
This set is great for any camera, new or old. Schneider Optics really has it out for infrared light. And that's a good thing, considering the havoc that light will wreak on your project if any leaks...
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Hands-on with the New Tiffen NATural ND Filters
Tiffen is focusing on color consistency and reproduction with their new line of NATural ND filters. ND filters don't get nearly enough love. Maybe it's a leftover of the time in our filmmaking where...
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Showcase: Getting Our Hands Dirty with New Gear from Tilta and Atlas Lens Co
Tilta and Atlas Lens Co. teamed up to showcase their latest products. Tilta hosted a hands-on event for filmmakers at their headquarters in Burbank. Designed to promote gear both from Tilta and...
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Check out These Painless Drop-In Lens Filters for Mirrorless Cameras
Aurora Aperture Mount Format (AMF) is a drop-in filter system for mirrorless cameras that makes using filters simple. Filter systems for lenses can be a headache. Step-up rings, step-down rings,...
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Make Your Smartphone Cinematography Sexier with Moment's New Cine Filters
Frustrated with your phone’s fixed aperture? Grab a filter. Smartphone lens mainstay Moment just released two new 37mm filters: a line of ND filter that runs ND4-ND64 and a Circular Polarizer filter....
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How to Use Split Diopters to Enhance Your Storytelling
Harness the powers of split focus cinematography with the CinePacks Split Filter, the world's first handheld split diopter set. In the annals of film history, there is perhaps no shot more memorable...
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We Try These Affordable IRND "Hot Mirror" Filters from NiSi
IRND filters are the last remaining filter most of us need in our kit, and they are finally getting affordable with hot mirror options from NISI. It used to be that a cinematographer needed a ton of...
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