Posts Tagged ‘ND filter’

What’s the first piece of gear many of us get once we decide to add motion to our shots? A slider. What’s the second piece of gear we’d like to get but often can’t afford? A motion controller. [adrotate group="6"]Syrp offers moderately priced examples of…

Incremental improvement: most of the time, this is the bedrock of innovation. This week, we present Photography Breakthrough’s X-Series ND and UV traction filters Kickstarter campaign.[adrotate group="6"] Kickstarter is a wellspring of optimism, charting the shortest course from entrepreneurs to customers. Sometimes. With 26 days…

High tech meets high touch in Syrp’s variable neutral density filter There’s high tech; there’s high touch; and occasionally you get both in the same product. Welcome to the world of Syrp, a New Zealand company who first came to our attention with their wildly…

When we last caught up with the team from Syrp (creators of Kickstarter success Genie, they’d just expanded their product line with their Magic Carpet slider. Fast on the heels of that product introduction, Syrp has expanded their line once again with the Syrp ND…

planetMitch note: we're thrilled that Formatt-Hitech chose planet5D for this announcement of their new Firecrest IRND Hyper-Neutral ND Filter! When I talked with Rod Clark from Formatt-Hitech at NAB, he was incredibly animated about how revolutionary these filters are and I asked him to let…

Light Craft Workshop is enticing you to try their Rapid ND Filter by offering it at 25% off! [adrotate group="6"] [adrotate group="9"] Light Craft Rapid ND A perfect Variable Neutral Density filter - It is thin, with just 0.8cm thick, it avoids vignetting at most…

Chris Conti sent us this nice report he did on Variable ND filters and said we could share some of it with you (you'll have to read the whole report for all the details). He does select a winner between the two and there are…

At NAB 2013, I ran into Rod Clark who's now representing Formatt-Hitech as Global VP of Marketing and I'm sure you'll be hearing more from Formatt-Hitech as their filter products seem pretty awesome! We hope to be not only testing these, but giving some away…

There are often new people reading planet5D and I find that they don't always know all the terms we use as filmmakers so I thought I'd cover some basics every now and then. I've recently been sent two different Neutral Density (ND) filters and so…

Genustech (also known as Genus) launches a new Eclipse ND Fader. See more on their site This variable neutral density camera filter enables photographers and videographers to easily control exposure in a 2 to 8 stop range by simply rotating the filter. Traditionally, the end…