Filters - Softning
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Classic Soft Schneider has developed a subtle and effective softening filter that can be used freely without fear of compromising the high quality of modern lenses. Schneider Classic Soft filters are made possible by state-of-the-art optical technology, and a proprietary Schneider manufacturing technique that produces a Micro-Lenslet™ array. This filter blends small wrinkles and blemishes while maintaining overall sharp focus that conceals the fact that a softening filter was used In the normal range of exposure, this filter imparts only a closely confined, very subtle glow to highlights. If large amounts of overexposure exist in a scene, like a "blown" window, Classic Soft filters add a stylish glow that keep the scene's contrast under control, while adding a romantic look. As with all Schneider Optical Glass filters, Classic Soft filters are designed to be used in front of long lenses, singly or in combination with any other Schneider filters, to make filter combinations for an even greater range of creative control. And, because they are designed and manufactured to the extremely high standards that Schneider is known for, same-strength Classic Soft filters can be switched between A and B cameras, or lost filters can be replaced, with no discernable difference in scene effects. This high level of consistency and repeatability is possible only with Schneider's superior optical technology. A softening filter that maintains this high degree of image quality, simply is not available anywhere else. Schneider has used the latest lens making technology to create a new filter that traces its origins to the classic styling filters of "Old Hollywood." Hundreds of Micro-Lenslets™ arrayed within each Schneider Classic Soft filter provide a precisely controlled soft image that is overlaid on a sharp, in-focus, image. This combination diffuses the image while maintaining overall sharp focus. We call this Schneider In-focus Diffusion™. The number of Micro-Lenslets per square inch determines the image blending effectiveness of each Classic Soft filter.
Soft/FX® Ideal portrait filter. Softens and minimizes facial imperfections while retaining overall clarity.
Schneider Soft-Centric filters are a series of mild diffusion filters that soften a scene without significantly affecting contrast, creating flare or making the subject look out of focus. Reminiscent of some of the softening filters created in the early days of Hollywood - but with total consistency - Schneider Soft-Centric filters can help Directors of Photography achieve a unique "look." Developed with the help of a leading Hollywood Director of Photography, Schneider Soft-Centric filters are ideal for romantic close-ups. Particularly useful to smooth out wrinkles and facial blemishes, they are the perfect filters for glamorous close-ups.
Corals Warming filters available in a wide range of densities. Used to adjust colour temperature for different times of day. Also used as a warming filter to enhance skintones. Fog Filters Adds drama to your scene by producing misty atmosphere. Lights flare, softens contrast and sharpness. Double Fog Why have more than one type of fog filter? Fog is fog, is it not? Not so - as you shall see from the following explanation. The Harrison Double Fog filters took ten years to develop. They are a culmination of an attempt to create a fog effect which would look natural, yet not have a loss of definition, such as is typical of even our own regular fogs. So you now have a choice of two different fog effects: the regular fog and the double fog. Which, then, should you use? I have taken two very simple examples, which will, I believe, indicate the use of each. If we were to have a scene in London, with Sherlock Holmes walking down a dark street, we would use a regular fog effect. This would give us halos around the light sources, and generally give the impression of a spooky, scary atmosphere, such as would be desirable. On the other hand, if we wished to create a dream-like situation - something we have all experienced - something that is not brilliant and sharp, but rather ethereal - we would use a double fog; and our subject would be surrounded by a dream-like atmosphere, but with little deterioration of the image. Since they do not produce any noticeable halos around the highlights, nor flare into the shadows, the double fogs achieve their effect almost entirely by lowering of contrast - the graying of shadows and dark areas as well as fogging the highlights. The overall effect of the picture therefore gives the feeling of increased exposure. This impression holds true for all grades of use so that, from a practical standpoint, no increase in exposure is necessary. In fact, where the heavier effect filters are used a slight decrease in exposure has proven to be beneficial. The selection of the proper degree of fog filter is greatly simplified by the fact that image size and contrast entirely control the degree of flatness or lowering of contrast that the scene will stand and still have a residual picture. Since the effect is achieved without loss of definition only eight steps, or degrees - from 1/8 to 5 - are sufficient to cover the entire range of conditions likely to be encountered in both color and black and white photography. And the use in television is just as exciting.
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