Formatt Hitech Soft-Edge Reverse ND Graduated Filter Kit (6.5 x 8")

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The 6.5 x 8" Soft-Edge Reverse ND Graduated Filter Kit from Formatt Hitech contains three filters that are the way to go when you want to shoot a bright horizon line but want to maintain accurate exposure control between the horizon and foreground. This is an ideal filter for the nature or landscape shooter, as it can help save what might ordinarily be an impossible shot to capture on film or digital. Traditional graduated neutral density filters transition from dark to light towards the bottom of the filter. However, by providing a reverse effect, the Hitech Reverse Grad allows you to capture the brilliance of the sunrise or sunset while maintaining a controlled and pleasing exposure in your foreground.

Each filter is clear in the lower half but, as mentioned, graduates from dark to light towards the top. These filters are made from CR39 resin, and they are produced to exacting tolerances that permit you to change filters mid-shoot or from day-to-day and know that your image quality will remain consistent.

Absorbing Cell Technology

The secret to Hitech's consistency in filter design lies in its unique "Absorbing Cell Technology" (A.C.T.); this unique process allows color correct dyes to be applied to optically pure, wafer thin absorbing cells and offers a controllability that ensures the smoothest grad lines and consistent color across the whole filter surface

Hitech filters are manufactured to exacting standards and can be counted on to be consistent filter to filter which means you can change filters mid shot or from day-to-day and still maintain the same exposure

Hitech filters are made by Formatt, a company with three generations of professional filter-making experience produces every filter to the highest technical standards. The finest materials, together with state of-the-art production technology have resulted in a standard of optical excellence unmatched anywhere else.

Hitech filters are made from high-quality CR39 resin. The secret to Formatt's consistency in filter design lies in its unique "Absorbing Cell Technology" (A.C.T.); this unique process allows color correct dyes to be applied to optically pure, wafer thin absorbing cells and offers a controllability that ensures the smoothest grad lines and consistent color across the whole filter surface.