K&F Concept55mm Black Diffusion 1/4 & 1/8 Lens Filter Kit (2 Pcs), Mist Cinematic Effect Filter for Vlog/Video/Portrait Image with 28 Multi-Layer Coated

happy with these! Great quality

Until now, I really haven't tinkered much with diffusion filters as I mainly get the desired results with Photoshop and a brush. Keen to try these, I must say that I did like the results.Caveat - I did most of my shooting with these filters using studio off-camera lighting and a range of modifiers.The effect can be subtle or more dramatic depending largely on your subject and their skin/texture/features couples with how you like to light your scene/subject. A softer light on a subject with mostly clean/flat skin yields a nice dreamy effect that doesn't look too manufactured or plastic. With more harsh lighting even with the same subject, there is a softening effect yet is reduced due to lighting. I did stack the filters and was significantly softer under hard light but not as soft as the previous setting.I did use these diffusion filters on a model I shoot very frequently and asked her to not do much to smooth out her face (she has little acne scars). I used both soft and hard lighting with the filter attached (went back to single filter) and the results were much more noticeable. I was happy to see that, again, didn't look too manufactured or over the top. I did double-up the filter and again the results were as expected with the amount of softening.As far as highlights are concerned - this did aid in highlight control without squashing them out. Specular highlights were still visible yet muted down (based on a control image). It's not negligible but if you're not comparing to a control image, you probably won't see too much difference.NOTE: To better enhance your effect make sure you have any in-camera sharpening turned off (which you should do anyway..LOL) and if you're tethering (Lightroom or Capture One) also make sure you're not sharpening! I am a big Capture One tether shooter and have found that CO does tend to add-in some sharpening on its own (compared RAW shot to card and same file saved to my computer in the CO file).Other items - these filters did not cause any significant color shift (I meant to use my DataColor cards and.. well, didn't.. sorry..) or stop-down any light. The filters are very well made, the threads are nicely machined and finished, and come in a nice filter holder pouch.While I may not use them for all shoots, I can (and have) used them for clients needing that little extra 'something'..

These days lenses are super sharp. So now we want to mimic some of those all vintage lenses from the past, which were a little softer, etc.This diffusion filter won't come off from my 50 mm ever. The haziness that offers around highlights, is lovely, giving a ver nice look to photos.When filming is fantastic as well!

For starters, the filter came packaged better than I expected. It arrived in a nice faux leather case for safe keeping or traveling when not in use. It is also very well made and dare I say rivals some of the more expensive ones that I have in terms of quality and performance. It was a bit difficult to get onto my lens, I had to carefully line up the thread but once it was on my Fujinon lens, it did not budge. It was easy to adjust while shooting and wasn’t too loose that it moved on its own.I’ve never used a diffusion filter before so I wanted to try something new when it came to my images and I’m kind of sold with this one. It added this softening effect to my images, smoothed out some of the edges but still kept the details.

Before I get started with the review, a note on packaging: These filters each come in a very large cylindrical case that's quite different from what I'm used to my filters arriving in. That's not a criticism, merely something I thought I'd mention because I was struck by it when these were first delivered. There's nothing wrong with these cases per se, but I am in the dark as to what benefit they're supposed to offer over the usual design.Anyway. I should explain where I'm coming from in order for this review to make sense. The majority of pro mist filter reviews I've seen suggest sticking with the1/8 strength because the reviewer finds the 1/4 produces too pronounced an effect. With all due respect, I want my filters to produce a pronounced effect. I don't keep filters (other than the UV) on my lens unless I specifically want to change the picture in a particular way. At such times the change should be noticeable! If it's too much I'll just take the filter off and shoot without it. I sometimes compare a lens filter to a jacket: I want my jacket to be heavy because, if I wear it outside and find that I'm too warm, I can simply take it off; but if I wear it outside and find I'm too cold, now what am I supposed to do?In a perfect world I think I probably would have skipped the 1/8, 1/4, and 1/2 filters and gone straight to a 1. But beggars can't be choosers, so I've got the 1/8 and 1/4 combo pack.You can see my test shots, which are of a perfectly ordinary naked light bulb in an otherwise dark room. It was a small room so I underexposed all of the pictures by two full stops in an attempt to duplicate outdoor conditions where the light would not have reflected off the surfaces of such a tight space. I used one of those cork screw shaped light bulbs rather than an old-fashioned one that's shaped like an actual bulb (hmm) so that there would be a bit more contrast baked into the image. Focal length and all other variables were controlled for across all shots, including my position relative to the bulb. Apologies that I wasn't able to keep all four images perfectly centered, seeing the bulb slide around as I move from one picture to the next annoys my OCD quite a lot. But setting up my tripod seemed like more trouble than it was worth, and since the background is dark, it doesn't make a difference for test purposes.The first shot is the control: No filter at all. Contrast is quite high. The second shot is the 1/8 filter. The effect is very subtle but not negligible. The third shot is the 1/4. The effect here is pronounced: the white balance is warmer and the halation is fairly dramatic. The fourth shot was an experiment in stacking both filters to see if that would yield even more pronounced results. Somewhat to my surprise, the effect is actually less pronounced than using the 1/4 alone, though more pronounced than the 1/8. (By the way, the threads on them are solid but not very smooth, and produce an unpleasant nails-on-a-chalkboard type screech as I screw them together. I stacked and unstacked them quite a few times just to try the threads out, and on one occasion I needed to use filter wrenches to separate them.)Based on my experiments it seems that the 1/4 filter is where it's at. By contrast, I don't think I'll give the 1/8 filter one of the coveted spots in my very crowded filter pouch. At one point I actually considered doing the hairspray trick on one of these filters to see if I could make the pictures even mistier (especially if I was going to stack the filters, as I could spray the filter at the bottom of the stack and seal the sticky surface between the two). Then I thought, if an improvised trick like that, which is meant to be used on a $6 UV filter, is necessary to get a $90 pro mist filter to look like a pro mist filter, then what's the point? Thankfully, based on my test shots, I don't think that will be necessary.EDIT: It looks like when this review posted, Amazon changed the order of the test shots for no reason. So the first shot is no filter, the second shot is the stack, the third is 1/8 and the fourth is 1/4.

Ich bin begeistert!Ich habe zwar nach dem Auspacken nur einen kurzen Test mit meinem Handy gemacht, allerdings bin ich überzeugt, dass ich mit den beiden Filtern richtig coole Portrait- und Hochzeitsfeierbilder schießen kann.Qualitativ gibt es nichts zu bemängeln, die Diffusionskörner sehen gleichmäßig und gut aus. Ebenso lassen sich die Filter einwandfrei aufschrauben. Im Anhang noch ein Vergleichsbild, geschossen mit meiner Sony A7IV auf 85mm f1.8

Der Effekt ist subtil und betrifft nur helle Lichtquellen oder Gegenlicht am Rande des Ausfressens oder darüber hinaus. Eine generelle Weichzeichnung sehe ich auch beim 1/4er nicht, was ich gut finde. Extrem starkes Abblenden macht die Körnung des Filters sichtbar.Mein Fazit ist, dass man nicht einen 1/8 und einen 1/4 braucht. Wenn man den Effekt will, dann kann man direkt zum 1/4 greifen.

The delivery was quick and the effect is, as expected, very pleasing. so far, so good, would've been five stars. But unfortunately, when I first tried to screw on the 1/4 filter, 58mm diameter, I realized that the filter does barely even fit onto my 58mm filter thread. It needs great strenght to get it on, so much that I'm worried for my lens thread to wear out in the process because it literally grinds (audibly) along it. I can't even fully screw it on, after one or two turns it's already stuck. No issues whatsoever on the 1/8 filter, though. That one screws on as you would expect it and sits firmly on the lens. Can't complain there.I might have just received a bad copy, stuff happens on the production line, but it's still very unfortunate to now have to send both back because I bought them in a bundle but I really don't want to put my lenses on risk.

Saw no imperfections in glass. The edges to provide grip are a little small.

Filtros muy bien protegidos, se adhieren al objetivo perfectamente. Recomendado