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Filters & Matte Boxes
What goes in front of the glass, and the box that holds it there.
17 products · 5 groups · 9 makers
Matte boxes
- Bright Tangerine Misfit Atom — The light clamp-on most owner-operators settle on
- Tilta Mirage matte box — Magnetic filters instead of fumbling with trays
- ARRI MB-18 matte box — Two-stage 4x5.65 matte box — the clamp-on most rentals ship
- Tilta Mirage VND kit — Matte box and variable ND in one, with magnetic glass
- SmallRig Star-Trail matte box — Clamp-on 4x5.65 with two rotating stages, at a third of the price
Variable ND
- PolarPro Mist Edition VND — Diffusion and ND in one piece of glass
- PolarPro Peter McKinnon VND II 6-9 stop — The dense one, for a wide-open lens in daylight
- NiSi True Color 1-5 stop VND — Variable ND that does not turn faces green
Fixed ND
- Tiffen 4x5.65 ND set, 0.3 to 1.2 — Four stops of neutral density in a tray, which is how NDs are used
- Formatt Hitech Firecrest Ultra 4x5.65 IRND — IR-cut built in, which digital sensors need past three stops
- Schneider Hollywood Black Magic 1/8 — Halation on the highlights and nothing anywhere else
Diffusion & effect
- Tiffen 4x5.65 blue streak 1mm — The anamorphic flare, on a spherical lens
- Tiffen Black Glimmerglass 1/4 — The Glimmerglass without the lift — contrast stays where it was
- Tiffen Glimmerglass 1 — Lifts the blacks a touch and puts a sheen on skin
- Tiffen Black Pro-Mist 1/4 — The filter that takes the digital edge off
Polarisers
- NiSi Swift VND 1-5 stop — Screw-in variable ND that does not cross-polarise at the ends
- NiSi True Color CPL — Takes the glare off water and glass without a colour cast
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