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Save time and frustration in post-production. Eliminate uncertainty and see the effect you want immediately, not hours
or days later.
Lens Protection – Protect your lens from moisture, scratches and damage.
Correction – Bring the optical correction to a known standard, leaving more latitude for digital effects used later.
Contrast Control – Ultra Contrast and Low Contrast filters allow your digital camera to capture more shadow detail or
lower contrast evenly.
Polarizers – These filter are ideal for color and contrast enhancements, removing reflections from water and glass
(impossible to do electronically) while adding richer, natural color saturation.
Color Enhancing Filter – Makes vibrant fall colors "pop" without adversely affecting other colors (difficult to easily do
electronically).
Color-Grad Filters – Add color selectively to the image while keeping other portions unaffected.
Gives greater contrast for blue skies and foliage. Offers the most correct
tonal range contrast to produce natural clouds against blue skys. Reduces
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Medium Yellow background blue, brings out clouds in a blue sky. For facial shots, reduces
freckles and red spots on skin and darkens blue eyes.
Ideal for more pleasing skintones outdoors. Especially suited for portraits
photographed against the sky. Darkens blue skies in contrast to clouds but
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Yellow Green preserves natural skin tones. In foliage, greens are lightened and red
blossoms darkened.
Provides very strong contrast. Excellent copying filter for blueprints. Also
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Dark Red used in scientific photography.
47B Dark blue filter that lightens blue objects for detail.
Blue
Reduces blue and red, affects blue skies similarly to yellow filter but
58 differentiates better between delicate hues of grass and foliage. Gives a
Dark Green very light foliage effect.
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2. Close-up
These filters maintain resolution and picture clarity while maximizing image size, allowing you to focus much closer than your
average lens allows. Great for detailed photos of nature, stamp collections and a wide array of other close-up situations.
Available in several diopter strengths. Use individually or in combination for maximum effect.
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3. Color Compensating
Specific filters to adjust your image when it has too much of one particular color. These filters effectively act as light sponges,
absorbing excess amounts of a specific color in different densities according to which filter is selected. By selecting these
different densities very fine adjustments in color temperature can be made.
The filters come in red, green, blue, magenta, cyan and yellow.
Red Absorbs green and blue
Green Absorbs blue and red
Blue Absorbs green and red
Cyan Absorbs red
Magenta Absorbs green
Yellow Absorbs blue
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Tiffen Color-Grads are supplied in a wide range of sizes and colors and are made in either soft, hard or, as a special order,
attenuated gradients. When it comes to rectangular-shaped filters, such as the 4x5.650 (Panavision size), the terms vertical and
horizontal are important.
The horizontal or vertical designation refers to the position of the filter in relationship to the camera when the grad line is
horizontal. In addition to subject matter and its surroundings, the type of lens you use will help to determine whether to use a
Tiffen Color-Grad with a “hard” edge or “soft” edge. Interesting effects can be achieved using two different graduated filters, (one
upside down) one of which affects the top half of the image with the other affecting the bottom half.
Hard Edge: the transition area is approximately 1/4” to 1/2” wide before reaching full density, depending on the size of the filter.
Telephoto lenses make use of a small portion of the filter. We recommend a hard edge for long lenses because a soft edge would
get lost in the image.
Soft Edge: the transition area is between 1/2” to 2” wide before reaching full density, depending on the size of the filter. Wide
angle lenses make objects smaller. We recommend a soft edge for short focal lengths because a hard edge gradient would look
like a hard straight line. Soft edges and attenuators are for subtle blending with irregular-shaped subjects or unusual lighting.
Attenuator: the transition area takes place throughout the whole filter, starting clear and reaching its maximum density at the
opposite end. Soft edges and attenuators are for subtle blending with irregular-shaped subjects or unusual lighting.
Graduated filters may be split into warming colors and cooling colors.
WARMING COLORS
Antique Suede: This is a green/brown warming filter giving a gritty feel to the image.
Chocolate: This is a rich dark brown color containing both magenta and sepia.
Corals: Coral Filters can be considered as both Color Correction and Color Effects Filters and are used to warm cool
lighting situations such as overcast days. Corals are available in densities 1/8 to 5 and are ideal for maintaining a
consistent color balance throughout a whole day of shooting or to create a sunset or dawn effect at any time of the day.
Cranberry: This is a deep reddish/magenta color which is often used for landscapes.
Golden Sepia: This gives a golden tobacco type color. Often used as a naturalizing color for landscapes.
Magenta: A rich red/purple effect.
Pink: This is a very striking pink giving a “bubblegum” color.
Plum: A deep purplish red.
Sepia: Gives a traditional sepia “old picture” effect
Straw: This is a vibrant gold/yellow warming color.
Tangerine: A bright orange effect.
Tobacco: A warm brownish orange.
Tuscan Pink: A pale rose - reddish pink.
Whiskey: This is a subtle warm gold filter.
COOLING COLORS
Blue: This creates a standard cooling blue effect.
Cool Blue: This is a steelier blue effect.
Cyan: Cyan is a light blue between blue and green in the spectrum.
Grape: This is a blue/purple color and creates a strong blue effect on skies.
Green: Bright green effect
Tropic blue: This is close to Cyan but a deeper blue.
Twilight: This provides a cool image ideally suited to creating a late afternoon/early evening twilight effect.
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5. Combination Colors
Several filter combinations are so popular that they are produced as two filter effects in one. These include: Neutral Density or
Polarizer plus 81 or 85 Series Wratten filters; the Polarizer plus enhancing filter; the warm versions of Pro-Mist, Soft/FX and Black
Pro-Mist filters.
The Neutral Density Combination filters will be found listed in the Neutral Density Category and the Polarizer Combination filters
will be found in the Polarizer Category.
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6. Contrast
Controlling the contrast of your film or video image is critical. Bright lights or sunlight create problems when the ratio between the
highlight and shadow areas is beyond the latitude of the recording medium. If you expose for the highlights, the shadows appear
without detail. If you expose for the shadows, the result is washed-out, overly bright highlights. Tiffen offers three alternatives to
solving your contrast problems.
ULTRA CONTRAST filters work with ambient light from surroundings, lowering contrast uniformly throughout the scene. Shadow
areas reveal more detail without any flare or halation from light sources or bright reflections, even direct shooting into the sun.
LOW CONTRAST filters work by spreading light from the highlights to the darker areas. Shadows are lighter, enabling you to see
more detail. They also create a very slight flare or halation around hot spots which can be a useful effect. Low Contrast is the
filter of choice for people who shoot video but want to achieve more of a film look.
SOFT CONTRAST filters diminish highlights while retaining the darker look of the shadows, hence a reduction in contrast.
Although the Soft Contrast filter is a neutral gray do not compensate exposure.
Use Ultra Contrast filters in scenes with sufficient brightness to lower the contrast without the minimal amount of flare produced
by the Low Contrast and Soft Contrast filters. Tiffen offers Low Contrast and Ultra Contrast filters in densities 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1, 2,
3, 4, 5 and Soft Contrast in densities 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5. Available in a range of sizes to fit every type of lens or Matte Box
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8. Decamired
Acts as a conversion filter for color temperature adjustments from any point to any other point in the color temperature scale.
Can be used to create ‘proper’ coloration in unusual situations and to make creative alterations.
Applications include keeping color temperature constant during the course of the day and producing the effect of different times of
day.
Available in two series: Reddish filters that warm the light and bluish filters that cool the light. Each series contain four densities
1-1/2, 3, 6, 12. Filters in the same series can be combined.
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9. Diffusion
Many techniques have been developed for diffusing or softening images, whether to create a mood or simply as an aid to make
people look glamorous. These filters produce silky-smooth textures, even in tight close-ups, without sacrificing image clarity.
Both the Black Diff and the Gold Diff create a diffused image that doesn't look like it's been shot through a filter.
The Black Diffusion/FX filter gives a silky-smooth look to textured surfaces. It does a spectacular job of suppressing
facial blemishes and wrinkles, while maintaining a clear, focused image. The effect is flattering, by virtually eliminating
unwanted details, but without being dull or “fuzzy”. At the same time, a bare minimum of highlight flare is produced.
The effect of the lighter grades is subtle, with the higher grades becoming gradually more noticeable; all capable of
providing a beautiful image.
The Gold Diffusion/FX filter takes the effect of the Black Diffusion/FX a step further. It adds a soft, golden tint to
shadows, and infuses images with a special warmth, yet it still manages to balance any mix of skin tones. Neutral colors
appear minimally affected, while cool colors and skin tones are slightly warmed and softened with beautiful results. As
grades increase, so does the diffusion, but the warm, golden tint stays constant.
Digital Diffusion/FX filters for today’s DV cameras deliver extraordinary clarity of image without evidence of filtration.
They are similar to the Black Diffusion/FX without the internal dot pattern. They create a silky smooth look on textured
surfaces and suppress facial blemishes and wrinkles while maintaining a clear, overall in-focus image
Lower densities of the Digital Diffusion/ FX offer a more subtle version of the "film look" effect, modest softening, minimal
reduction of contrast and fine tuning of the image with higher grades creating stronger effects. This is helpful when different
grades of diffusion are required in the same shot or different scenes because the viewer will not see a difference in the overall
‘look’.
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11. DV Kits
DVEK3 DV Essentials Kit 3: Contains Clear, 812 Warming, Ultra Pol Circular Polarizer
DVSK3 DV Select Kit 3: Contains Neutral Density .6, Black Promist 1/4, Ultra Pol Circular Polarizer
DVSEK3 DV Scenic Enhancing Kit 3: Contains Sunset Color Grad 2, Enhancing Filter, Color Grad ND .6
DVFLK3 DV Film Look Kit 3: Contains Digital Diffusion/FX1, Soft/FX1, Black Promist 1/2
DVVEK Video Essentials DV Kit: Contains Clear, Circular Polarizer, Warm UV17
DVFLK Film Look DV Kit: Contains Black Diffusion FX 1/2, Warm Black Diffusion FX 1/4, Black ProMist 1/2, Soft FX 1
DVSEK Special Effects DV Kit: Contains Color Grad ND6, ProMist 1/4, Enhancing, Gold Diffusion FX 1/2
2USMK1 Scene Makers Kit: Contains Cool Day for Night, 812 Warming, Ultra Pol Circular Polarizer
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12. Enhancing
These filters make reds, rust browns and oranges ‘pop’, with minimal effect on other colors. Perfect for fall foliage, earth-tone
rock formations, architecture, woodwork, faded rustic barns and any photos where red, brown and orange subjects should be
enriched or appear more intense.
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15. Hollywood/FX
Center Spot Filters The Standard Center Spot filters isolate the main subject, held sharp in the clear center, while diffusing a
distracting background - Ideal for portrait or product applications.
The Warm Center Spot filter adds the warmth of the 812 filter - Neutral colors appear minimally affected - Cool colors and
skintones are slightly warmed and softened.
Glimmerglass Filters — Standard Glimmerglass softens fine details, while adding a mild glow to highlights. Beauty is enhanced as
contrast is reduced. The glass itself has a distinctive silver ‘sparkle’.
Bronze Glimmerglass filters, with the addition of a bronze color, add warmth to skin tones and scenics and have some effect on
contrast. The effect of the lighter grades is subtle, with the higher grades becoming gradually more noticeable.
Glimmerglass filters are available in grades 1-5 in many standard professional motion picture and television sizes, as well as
screw-in sizes in 52mm to 82mm.
-The HDTV/FX filters address both contrast and sharpness issues associated with HD. HD video is higher in contrast than
traditional film. Combining the Ultra Contrast Filter with the new Digital Diffusion/FX filter, the HDTV/FX filters smooth out
unwanted detail and make people look their best without evidence of filtration. It creates a film look by reducing contrast and
also provides subtle improvements in shadow detail.
Although results may be very subtle with still photography, the effects of the HDTV/FX are seen more substantially with digital
and video applications. HDTV/FX filters are available in densities 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 in professional sizes 4x4, 4x5.650, 6.6x6.6,
138mm and 4-1/2" and will be available in screw-in sizes 52mm-82mm for the digital and still photographer and videographer.
-The Nude/FX filters are a series of different skin tone enhancing filters that offer ultimate flexibility and control in shooting
skintones. Custom complement a person’s complexion or make-up or create a new look; perfect for headshots and close-ups.
Combine with a Diffusion filter for beautiful, silky smooth skin without wrinkles and blemishes. Ideal for digital, video and still
imaging. Available Nude/FX 1-6
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The Black Pro-Mist filters offer all the benefits of the Pro-Mist filter in a more subtle form. The effect is subtle and delicate, with
contained highlight flare, less lightening of shadows and moderate reduction of contrast. A soft light “pastel” effect is created.
Low densities tone down excessive sharpness to create a ‘film look’.
The Warm Black Pro-Mist filters offer the benefits of the Black Pro-Mist with the Tiffen 812 filter for warming skintones, as
well as exterior shade and highlight areas. The warming feature also can reduce bluish reflections from dark skintones. This filter
is the right choice when you want to convey a warm, romantic feeling. It is also very useful in outdoor open shade where there is
excessive blue and control over light may not be possible; helps eliminate the blue cast for a more pleasing effect.
The higher the density, the greater effect of diffusion; the warm color remains constant in all densities while the amount of
softening varies.
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UV Protector: Most popular protection filter - Provides basic reduction of UV light - Available for Wide Angle lenses
Digital Ultra Clear: Made from the highest quality optical glass - Offers ultimate protection - May be kept on lens at all
times - For Digital, Video and Photo
Sky 1-A: Absorbs almost half of UV light - Popular general use filter - Pink-tinted for added warmth and better colors -
Especially helpful when shooting in outdoor open shade and on overcast days - Available for Wide Angle lenses
Haze-1: Reduces excessive blue by absorbing almost three quarters of UV light - Best general purpose UV control -
Eliminates UV problems from most situations where increased haze tends to wash out color and image clarity - Available
for Wide Angle lenses
Haze 2A: Absorbs virtually all UV light - Reduces haze more than Haze-1 - Perfect for use in high altitudes and along
bodies of water. Ideal for aerial/mountain/marine scenes - Maintains color and image clarity.
UV-17 / Warm UV: For the technically-minded image maker who wants to absorb most but not all UV light - Absorbs
slightly less UV light than Haze 2A - Combines benefits of UV 17 with the Tiffen 812 Color Warming Filter for added
warmth
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80a: For use in exposing daylight type color materials under 3200K tungsten illumination (most standard tungsten
lighting, studio lighting and copy stand lighting) - Converts 3200-5500K, with exposure +2
80b: For use under 3400K tungsten light - Balances daylight film for use with photo flood lamps - Converts 3400-
5500K, with exposure +1-2/3
80c: For use under 3800K tungsten light - Converts 3800-5500K, with exposure +1
80d: For use under 4200K tungsten light - Converts 4200-5500K, with exposure +1/3
85 Series - Amber series of conversion filters for use with color films. Using tungsten film in daylight will produce a bluish cast.
The 85 Series will produce natural colors when shooting with tungsten film outdoors. For best results use the filter that most
accurately matches your film type.
85: This is used for exposing type A tungsten materials in daylight - Produces slightly cooler results than the 85b -
Conversion 5500-3400K, exposure +2/3
85b: This is used for exposing type B tungsten materials in daylight - Converts tungsten film to daylight. Conversion
5500-3200K, exposure +2/3
85c Useful as creative warming effect with daylight film in daylight - Designed to produce cooler results with tungsten
film in daylight than the 85 or 85B - This paler filter is sometimes preferred for exposing Type L tungsten materials in
daylight. Conversion 5500-3800K, exposure +1/3
For more subtle changes in color balance, the following filters are used. These are often known as light balancing filters rather
than conversion filters, as they shift the color temperature in smaller degrees to balance the color of the light to the color
sensitivity of the film. They will make the appearance cooler (with the light blue filters) or warmer (with the light amber/yellowish
filters).
81 Series - Light Amber/Yellowish series of light balancing filters - Warm up the look by reducing the blue cast - The 81 Series
filters are useful with daylight corrected film in cool light conditions. As letters advance, density and warmth increases - Creates
warmer tones and brighter colors on overcast days or when shooting with electronic flash - Great for improving flesh tones - Used
to warm-up open shade with blue sky
82 Series - Light Bluish series of light-balancing filters - Cool lighting situations but not as dramatic as the 80 series - The 82a
and 82b reduce unnatural red tones in early morning or late afternoon light - Prevents reddish cast - Maintains natural flesh tones
- Can create mood of coolness – 82a provides a cooler effect with tungsten film under 3200K lamps.
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23. Smoque
The new Tiffen Smoque filters produce a smoke-like effect without the cost and difficulty of a generator or the smoke it produces.
Smoque filters are used to add atmospheric haze to a scene for enhanced realism in places where smoke is normally encountered,
like a nightclub, or the scene of a fire or the smoke is added to create a certain look.
Available in 4 grades in professional motion picture, television and screw-in sizes, the new Tiffen Smoque filters can be used to
create the look alone, or in addition to a more modest application of real smoke. They allow greater base level consistency
especially outdoors in a wind. The effect of the lighter grades is subtle, with the higher grades becoming gradually more
noticeable.
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24. Soft/FX
Many different techniques have been developed for diffusing or softening images. The Soft/FX filter retains overall image clarity
while it softens unwanted details. This series of filters has a pattern of tiny lenselets designed specifically to put fine image
elements, like wrinkles and skin blemishes, out of focus while leaving larger details such as the eyes, sharp. The proportion of
clear space to the diffused pattern on the glass determines the strength of the filter and enables the overall image quality and
sharpness to be retained.
The lighter densities are very subtle, producing no flare from highlights or reduction in contrast. The higher densities tend to be
more noticeable in their effect while still providing a pleasing portrait.
The Warm Soft/FX combines the diffusion technology of the Soft/FX filters with the exclusive Tiffen 812 warming filter, balancing
contrasting skintones to make people look their best. Ideal for all types of people photography, the Warm Soft/FX can be helpful
when a scene involves several people with varying skintones. The Warm Soft/FX is particularly useful with video due to its
sensitivity to blue
It provides the dual benefit of softening and warming, while offering the convenience of minimized filter requirements by allowing
the use of two filter effects in one position of the filter wheel in professional broadcast video cameras. Neutral colors show little
change while cool and skin-tones are made warmer as well as being softened for a beautiful effect.
Available in all professional sizes in densities 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 - the higher the density, the greater effect of diffusion -
the warm color remains constant in all densities while the amount of softening varies.
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25. Softnet
Often used in the old glamour days to create the flawless faces of the stars. A modern update made of special fine net laminated
between clear optical glass. Available in Softnet Black, the standard, and Softnet White.
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Antique Suede: This is a green/brown warming filter giving a gritty feel to the image.
Chocolate: This is a rich dark brown color containing both magenta (more) and sepia.
Corals: Coral Filters can be considered as both Color Correction and Color Effects Filters and are used to warm cool
lighting situations such as overcast days. Corals are available in densities 1/8 to 5 and are ideal for maintaining a
consistent color balance throughout a whole day of shooting or to create a sunset or dawn effect at any time of the day.
Cranberry: This is a deep reddish/magenta color which is often used for landscapes.
Golden Sepia: This gives a golden tobacco type color. Often used as a naturalizing color for landscapes.
Magenta: A rich red/purple effect.
Pink: This is a very striking pink giving a “bubblegum” color.
Plum: A deep purplish red.
Sepia: Create a warm, brown glow offering “turn of the century” nostalgia. Sepia #3 adds a light fog effect to soften
mood.
Straw: This is a vibrant gold/yellow warming color.
Tangerine: A bright orange effect.
Tobacco: A warm brownish orange.
Tuscan Pink: A pale rose - reddish pink.
Whiskey: This is a subtle warm gold filter.
COOLING COLORS
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27. Split-Fields
Split Field splits the image with a line that can be positioned, rotated and blurred. On one side of the line, the image is blurred
and on the other, it is in focus.
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