The Wine Country Camera 100mm Master 5-Filter Kit 52mm Adapterfrom Wine Country Camera 100mm Master 5-Filter Kit 52mm Adapteris an ND filter with an 8x filter factor that provides a 3-stop exposure reduction. Its 0.9 density creates a darkening of the entire image, allowing you to photograph with a wider aperture or slower shutter speed than normally required. By slowing exposure time or increasing aperture, you are able to control depth of field and convey movement more easily. Neutral density filters do not affect the coloration of the image and are ideal for pairing with other filters.

The design of this filter has been optimized for use with digital sensors and to promote nearly flat attenuation of visible and infrared light. Due to imaging sensors' greater susceptibility to infrared light compared to traditional film, color casts can occur when photographing darker subjects that require increased exposure times. To provide neutrality across the visible and infrared spectrums in order to eliminate color casts and ensure cleaner, truer blacks, one layer of Blackstone ND Coating is applied to each of this filter's surfaces. The Blackstone ND Coating is also designed to help minimize any effect on a digital camera's resolution when using this filter.

This Wine Country Camera 100 x 100mm Blackstone IRND 0.9 Filter is constructed from Schott Ultra White Glass for clarity as well as color fidelity, and measures 2mm thick.

The Wine Country Camera 100 x 100mm Blackstone IRND 0.9 Filter is pre-installed within a Wine Country Camera 100mm Master 5-Filter Kit 52mm Adapterwhich is designed to encase the edges of a 100 x 100mm, 2mm-thick filter for use within a separately available Wine Country Camera 100mm Filter Holder. By encasing the sides of an installed filter, this filter vault helps to eliminate stray light, which could have unwanted effects on exposure. Additionally, the Wine Country Camera 100 x 100mm Filter Vault reinforces an installed filter's rigidity while preventing its sides from having to come into direct contact with a filter holder's slots. This protects those side surfaces and promotes sharp results by ensuring that the filter remains flat.

Installation of a compatible filter is accomplished by first turning the Wine Country Camera 100 x 100mm Filter Vault's brass Wine Coin lock into the open position. Located along the front of the filter vault's inner and outer top edges, the Wine Coin is a flat, disk cam lock that features a straight edge on one side and a rounded edge at the other. When the lock's straight edge is aligned with the filter vault's inner edge, a 100 x 100mm, 2mm-thick filter can be set within the front of the filter vault. The Wine Coin can then be turned so that its rounded edge obstructs the installed filter, securing it within the filter vault.

A separately available Wine Country Camera 100mm Filter Holder includes a dedicated inner slot for this 100 x 100mm filter vault which also features a quick-access side handle. The combination of that slot and the side handle allows a Wine Country Camera 100 x 100mm Filter Vault to be instantly switched with an identical filter vault that may contain a different filter needed for other subjects or changing lighting conditions. If used with any one of the Wine Country Camera 100mm Filter Holder's two outer slots that can each accommodate a Wine Country Camera filter vault up to 100 x 150mm in size, an integrated safety-catch system prevents this 100 x 100mm filter vault from accidentally sliding out of the filter holder.

Filter Holder with Polarizer    Blackstone ND 3-Stop Filter    Blackstone ND 6-Stop Filter    Blackstone ND 10-Stop Filter    Blackstone ND 2-Stop Soft Edge Filter    Filter Holder System Case    Basic Filter Pouch    52mm Adapter Ring

100 x 100mm neutral density filter darkens the image, allowing you to photograph with a longer shutter speed or wider aperture than normally required

Providing a 3-stop exposure reduction, this filter allows you to control depth of field and convey movement more easily

Filter does not affect coloration of the image and is ideal for use with other filters

Each surface includes one layer of Blackstone ND Coating that attenuates infrared light as well as visible wavelengths, to maintain color neutrality and suppress color casts due to increased exposure times

Blackstone ND Coating is designed to help minimize the filter's effect on a digital camera's resolution

Constructed from Schott Ultra White Glass for clarity and color fidelity

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. How many filters does the case that comes worth the master kit hold? Is it the same as the Kase canvass accordion style filter case that Kase sells separately?

A: The included case can hold up to 10 filters.

Q: 2. Do Singh Ray filters work with this system?

A: Yes any brand of filters of the correct size will fit: 100 x 100mm, 100 x 150mm, or any with a maximum width of 100mm on one end.

Q: 3. The Overview shows that the kit includes the Kase 90mm Magnetic Circular Polarizer Filter, but the In The Box list doesn’t include it in the list. Does the kit include the Kase 90mm Magnetic Circular Polarizer Filter or not?

A: Yes a magnetic circular polarizer is included with this kit.

Q: 4. can you use this system with Lee filters?

A: Yes, one can use Lee 100 x 100mm filters, with the Wine Country Camera 100 x 100mm Master 5-Filter & Holder Kit with 58mm Adapter Ring.

Q: 5. I often use wide angles, between 16-24mm for long exposures using a ND filter. My current Tiffen 82mm variable ND filter will show vignetting. Will it be less so, or non existent with this system..Is it wide enough?

A: While specifics depend on the camera, the sensor and the actual lens, it can be said in general that 100mm filters do not vignette on any lens they are mounted on.

Q: 6. Do the Lee filters work with this base? The 100mm with gaskets and the 100x150mm

A: I have no direct experience but have been doing some research. If you look at the Wine Country Camera website FAQs http://www.winecountry.camera/faqs/, there is this statement, so I presume that the holder generally works for Lee filters: Service Advisory: We are noticing that some Lee grads have been produced at a thickness outside of their specification. If you experience difficulty installing your grad, contact us immediately and we will resolve it for you.

Q: 7. Will this fit the Cokin Z-Pro and/or Lee filter holders? Cokin accepts 1.5mm thick filters and Lee accepts 2.0mm filters. Thanks.

A: This will not fit into the Cokin Z-Pro or Lee filter holders. It is designed for Wine Country filter holders only and is 7mm thick.

Q: 8. Does this kit fit the Sony 12-24mm wide angle lens??

A: No. The following kit will not adapt to the Sony 12-24mm lens.

Q: 9. Do these NDs have IR Cut on them already and how good is the IR cut if so?

A: These are high quality filters that all have IR Attenuation.

Q: 10. Is this threaded? What filter size will fit the WI150ADP021 holder for the Nikon 14-24 lens?

A: The filter holder this takes is the Wine Country Camera 150mm Filter Holder and is a non-threaded clamp on. It takes 150mm filters.