Tiffen 77GG1 77mm Glimmer Glass 1 Filter

Product Information

It’s a diffusion filter, it goes on the front of the lens. You put it on your super-sharp, modern lens and you make pictures. Books On My Desk: Robert Adams’ Photographs ( not in the way you think I mean) and Bruce Conner’s Attic It’s fine, it’s an interesting look, it just starts to sort of blend after a while. Filmmakers, just like still photographers, tend to be fad followers. But followers have to, by definition, be following and that implies that somebody is out there in front. With diffusion filters that is certainly not me—adapting old lenses to modern cameras is a well-established corner of the photo world and diffusion fits into that same corner as well, although even there it’s sort of a niche, a corner within a corner. Perhaps we can add a bit to that little group—put the Glimmerglass on the fast Fuji 50 and see what happens? ColorCore® Technology (per < link > The Tiffen ColorCore technology is a secret proprietary formula...)

Taking pictures in the dark with point light sources in the frame the effect is also similar to what you get when shooting analogue Cinestill 800T film. But there are situations where doing everything in software isn‘t viable or simply not wanted. First, if you shoot video, it will cause very heavy workloads in post. Second, if you shoot on film…well, that‘s obvious. Third, if you‘re a purist and don‘t want to treat every image in post, or if you try to improve your “analogue” photographic skills.The Glimmerglass1 was more to my liking as it really seemed to only affect the parts of the picture it is supposed to and I may keep it for the next time I take pictures at a fair or do automotive photography during the blue hour. thanks for this nice short review. I don’t like the idea of worsening the optical qualities of a good lens either. But indeed, the achievable looks may be quite nice. I think I’ll give some NiSi filters a try as well.

Cinebloom was made to be cheaper but all of the filters seem to sold out from time to time, and I think it’s pushing up prices. None of them are cheap 🙂 This whale was moving in a circle, too, in shallow water, apparently both corralling the fish and then coming up on them to eat them. I saw him lunge out of the water but neglected to take a picture. It is also unusual to see whales active and feeding like this after sunset—normally about a half-hour prior to sunset the whales tend to wrap things up and head to wherever it is they go at night. But there was a lot of fish in the water, witnessed by the many birds on the surface and the dive-bombing Pelicans crashing into and under the swells, and so that may explain the late activity, though I worry that this whale may be here now more out of weakness and hunger than out of choice.But one has more freedom for further creative modifications if the base itself is very solid. You can blur any sharp image, but the other way only works in action movies where crops of single frames of 240p/12fps surveillance cameras magically sharpen up to the same quality as if that cropped area was taken with a slightly stopped down 400mm/2.8. Earlier we saw flare from the filter and here it is again, though brighter and clearer. And again we see that it is not even—is there something in the flare? And there is—a picture of the Moon. With greatly reduced exposure the details of its surface are clear, the focused light having bounced off the flat filter in some way. There’s a coolness factor here that cannot be denied. Tiffen Glimmer Glass 1 is the least extreme filter, it gives a small amount of bloom and pulls down highlight contrast slightly, but shadows seems to be the same. Good for all around subjects like portraits where you don’t want a too extreme look, but still want to soften those strong highlights. If you hold it and shift it around so the light reflects off the glass, the surface of a Glimmerglass filter looks like it has been sprinkled with some sort of metallic dust, maybe gold. The particles aren’t really on the surface, they are sandwiched between two thin layers of glass, and they probably aren’t gold, though for the price of the filter I’m thinking maybe they should be.