The Tiffen 4.5" Warm Black Pro-Mist 1/8 Filterhelps to reduce the value of the highlights while slightly lowering the overall contrast. This filter is especially useful for smoothing out and softening facial wrinkles and other blemishes. While designed for use with movies, this filter can also be used for fashion and beauty applications. Unlike a traditional diffusion or soft focus filter, Pro-Mist filters provide little loss of detail across the image. The 1/8 density provides the least amount of contrast and highlight reduction and allows for a soft, pastel-like quality of light.

This filter also combines the diffusion effect with an 812 warming filter for providing a general warmth to the image and for improving skin tones. This warming effect also helps to reduce blue sensitivity and for cutting through overly cool tones within the scene.

Tiffen filters are made using ColorCore technology, a process that involves laminating the filter substrate between 2 pieces of optical glass, grinding flat to a tolerance of 1/10,000th of an inch, and then mounting to precision metal rings.

Reduces Highlights and Lowers Contrast    Softens Wrinkles and Blemishes    Creates a Soft Quality of Light    Warming Filter Combination    ColorCore Technology

Pro-Mist filters provide little loss of detail across the image compared to traditional diffusion and soft focus filters.

Especially useful for smoothing out and softening facial wrinkles and other blemishes.

Pro-Mist filters provide little loss of detail across the image compared to traditional diffusion and soft focus filters.

Warming filter helps to reduce bluish casts and provide more balanced skin tones.

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. Does this fit a cannon 58mm lens?

A: Yes it will ! filter thread today is universal ! Only differences is bayonet used on some German lenses which the canon is not !!!

Q: 2. how do I remove it? I thought I screwed it on, but now I cant remove it by unscrewing!

A: It sounds like you may have screwed it in too tightly and the outer ring is probably spinning when you try to unscrew it. Please remember that it will be righty tighty lefty loosey. Try using something like a rubber band to grip the inner ring on the lens side and gently but firmly twist it in a counter clockwise direction as you are facing the filter on the lens.

Q: 3. How many stops of light does this filter induce? And are the elements made from glass or resin?

A: I am sorry the element looks like glass but does not say glass on any literature on the plastic container.Also did not test for stop reduction.I purchased the filter for our trip to Yellowstone last June and provided some nice photo's of the springs and Geyser's. Not good for sun sets.

Q: 4. Looking for some install info on filter. Is it self adhesive? Thank you!

A: The LEE Filters 809 Zircon Warm Amber 8 Filter (24 x 24" Sheet) is not self-adhesive, but it can be attached using gaffer's tape, wooden clothes pins or a specific gel frame for your light where applicable.

Q: 5. Is this a thin mount - wondering if I'll have an issue on my Canon 24-70 if it is too thick?

A: No, this is not a thin filter. You will experience vignetting on ultra-wide lenses, but a 24mm lens is not considered ultra-wide.

Q: 6. What is the difference between the filter numbers: warm amber 2 througth 9?

A: The difference between the LEE Filters 808 Zircon Warm Amber 6 Filter and the LEE Filters 814 Zircon Warm Amber 9 Filter is the density of the filter. You may find useful and precise information in the specs that will state the exact temperature conversion and density with the Mired Shift Value. The Mired Shift Value is the color temperature shift provided by a filter or gel for a given film and light source. Not all LED fixtures are made even, and depending on the intensity of the light power, it may change the color temperature. The science of using a gel for an LED fixture is also different from using a gel for a tungsten or HMI light.

Q: 7. What's the benefit of stacking Black Mist on VND? Can I screw on regular Black Mist and stack VND on top? any vignetting?

A: The NiSi 82mm Black Mist Filter for True Color VND Swift System (1/8), BH #NITVNDSB1682, lowers contrast by suppressing and diffusing highlights and lifting shadows to help balance the tonal range of the image. It creates a cinematic look and is also commonly used to soften wrinkles, blemishes and creates a flattering image of a subject. The effect is most effective when capturing light that diffuses softly when backlit, creating a transparent light that looks like it was taken with a high-quality vintage lens. There should be no vignetting. It may be added on to the NiSi True color VND 1-5 stop variable ND filter.

Q: 8. Is the Moose polarizing filter coated ? Thanks.

A: If you mean an anti-relfective coating, I do not believe so. However, I wouldn't classify this a neutral density filter either. I feel that it tends to muddle blues. That is skyies and water tend to come out not as vibrant. I suppose this is the 'warming' aspect of the filter.

Q: 9. Does this come with the filter tray for the Tilta Mirage?

A: The Vaxis VFX 95 Black Mist 1/8 Filter for Tilta Mirage Matte Box (B&H# VAVFXBM18F) does not come with the filter tray for the Tilta Mirage Matte Box (B&H# TIMBT16). However, one filter tray for the Mirage matte box that is used for holding ND filters can hold both an IRND filter and a mist filter at the same time.

Q: 10. To be honest I have not researched lens composition. I read about this filter in a magazine many years ago and now have one for every lens. Does it make a difference? I have always assumed the lens was glass. As to light loss, I agree with another response and have never faced major light loss. If used in daylight it has never altered stops. Further, I would agree that light loss would be almost nothing to maybe 1 to 1.5 stops although the latter seems rather extreme. Not sure what you are looking for to render a decision, but I would never be without this lens, especially in the fall and doing landscapes/mountains.

A: I am 73 years old, have had one since they first came out. Now I have four.C.B.