Are you searching for such item? The 58mm Soft Focus Effect Diffuser Filter has very little effect on the sharpness of the image. It merely diffuses highlights, reducing contrast and can creates a soft halo around the highlights. This 58mm Lens Filter is also ideal for creating a hint of softness or blurred contours. As such, Diffusion Filter can be used to soften a landscape, or soften skin texture in a portrait to hide minor flaws, giving a gentle, flattering effect. You can obviously find the differences from the above pictures that with or without this filter. This 58mm Lens Filter is is suitable for all DC / DV / DSLR / SLR digital camera lens at 58mm diameter filter size. Time to try this 58mm Filter.
Specifications:
- This 58mm Lens Filter reduces contrast and create a soft halo around the highlights
- This 58mm Lens Filter is also ideal for creating a hint of softness or blurred contours
- This 58mm Filter is very suitable for portrait especially for close-up shoot, which can soften wrinkle, spots, pore etc, giving a gentle, flattering effect
- You can obviously find the differences from the pictures that with or without this 58mm Lens Filter
- This Diffusion Filter is suitable for all DC / DV / DSLR / SLR digital camera lens at 58mm diameter filter size
- Material: Alloy & Optical Glass
- Size: 7 x 58mm / 0.3 x 2.3in(H x Dia.)
Details:
- This filter reduces contrast and create a soft halo around the highlights
What's the Camera Lens Filters:
- Camera lens filters still have many uses in digital photography, and should be an important part of any photographer's camera bag. These can include polarizing filters to reduce glare and improve saturation, or simple UV/haze filters to provide extra protection for the front of your lens
Lens Filter Type:
- The most commonly used filters for digital photography include polarizing (linear/circular), UV/haze, neutral density, graduated neutral density and warming/cooling or color filters
- Example uses for each are listed below:
Filter Type | Primary Use | Common Subject Matter |
Linear & Circular Polarizers | Reduce Glare Improve Saturation | Sky / Water / Foliage in Landscape Photography |
Neutral Density (ND) | Extend Exposure Time | Waterfalls, Rivers under bright light |
Graduated Neutral Density (GND) | Control Strong Light Gradients Reduce Vignetting | Dramatically Lit Landscapes |
UV / Haze | Improve Clarity with Film Provide Lens Protection | Any |
Warming / Cooling | Change White Balance | Landscapes, Underwater, Special Lighting |
Linear & Circular Polarizing Filters:
- Polarizing filters (aka "polarizers") are perhaps the most important of any filter for landscape photography. They work by reducing the amount of reflected light that passes to your camera's sensor. Similar to polarizing sunglasses, polarizers will make skies appear deeper blue, will reduce glare and reflections off of water and other surfaces, and will reduce the contrast between land and sky
- Note how the sky becomes a much darker blue, and how the foliage/rocks acquire slightly more color saturation. The intensity of the polarizing effect can be varied by slowly rotating your polarizing filter, although no more than 180° of rotation is needed, since beyond this the possible intensities repeat. Use your camera's viewfinder (or rear LCD screen) to view the effect as you rotate the polarizing filter.The polarizing effect may also increase or decrease substantially depending on the direction your camera is pointed and the position of the sun in the sky. The effect is strongest when your camera is aimed in a direction which is perpendicular to the direction of the sun's incoming light. This means that if the sun is directly overhead, the polarizing effect will be greatest near the horizon in all directions
- However, polarizing filters should be used with caution because they may adversely affect the photo. Polarizers dramatically reduce the amount of light reaching the camera's sensor-often by 2-3 f-stops (1/4 to 1/8 the amount of light). This means that the risk of a blurred handheld image goes up dramatically, and may make some action shots prohibitive
- Additionally, using a polarizer on a wide angle lens can produce an uneven or unrealistic looking sky which visibly darkens. In the example to the left, the sky could be considered unusually uneven and too dark at the top
- Linear vs. Circular Polarizing Filters: The circular polarizing variety is designed so that the camera's metering and autofocus systems can still function. Linear polarizers are much less expensive, but cannot be used with cameras that have through-the-lens (TTL) metering and autofocus-meaning nearly all digital SLR cameras. One could of course forego metering and autofocus, but that is rarely desirable
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