Tiffen Filter Wheel #3 81A Light Balancing Filter (0.3-Stop)

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The 0.3 Filter Wheel #3 81A Light Balancing Filter from Tiffen helps control the bluish coloration that affects daylight film, it can also help reduce excessive blue from electronic flash. This filter is inserted ibnto your Filter Wheel #3, which allows you to rapidly cange filters within your lens, avoiding ned need to mount a filter on the front of your lens, and the filter wheel itself is sealed, keeping your filters clean and dust free.

81A

It's Autumn. The clouds are low hanging and the sky is "patchy blue." You've gone for a ride upstate to the mountains and the light in open shade is bluish. A photo taken of your girlfriend with daylight balanced film leaning against the side of a barn will yield bluish tones that she might not find particularly flattering. An 81A filter will replace some of the yellow missing from the image and bring her skin tones back to a more appealing level.

Uses

Good for general scenics when the photographer wishes to remove the bluish cast from open shade or just add warmth to the photograph

Converts tungsten 3200K film to 3400K lighting

Tiffen's ColorCore glass is sealed between two optical glass sheets. In this way, Tiffen can better control the various densities of their filters and thereby create more exact degrees of filtration. This process makes for greater accuracy of color as opposed to glass that is simply dyed and become subject to deviation during the dye process

Tiffen, a leader in the filter industry, proudly makes its filters in the USA

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