The Black Pro Mist  helps to reduce the value of the highlights while slightly lowering the overall contrast. This filter is especially useful for smoothing out and softening facial wrinkles and other blemishes. While designed for use with movies, this filter can also be used for fashion and beauty applications. Unlike a traditional diffusion or soft focus filter, Pro-Mist filters provide little loss of detail across the image. The 1 density provides a subtle amount of contrast and highlight reduction and allows for a soft, pastel-like quality of light.

Strengths Available: 1.8/ 1.4/ 1.2/ 1/ 2

Sizes Available: 4×5.65/ 6.6×6.6/ 138mm/ Series 9/ 40.5mm/ 4×4

The Tiffen Pro Mist filters were originally designed for the TV and Motion Picture industry but are now available to all videographers. The White Pro Mist Offers all the benefits of the Pro-Mist filter in a more subtle form, with highlight flares that are controlled, and contrast is lowered but with less lightening of shadows for a more delicate effect. This creates a soft light “pastel” effect.

Strength Available: 1.8/ 1.4/ 1.2/ 1/ 2

Sizes Available: 4×5.65/ Series 9/ 138mm/ 6.6×6.6/ 4×4

The Soft/FX Filter can be applied to purposely reduce the appearance of blemishes and wrinkles in portraits or to apply a general soft-focus effect while maintaining overall sharpness. An array of small lenses distributed within the surface of this filter smooths fine lines and textures, which can be useful for creating a more flattering result of a subject.

Strengths Available: 1.8/ 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5 

Sizes Available: 4×5.65/ Series 9/ 138mm/ 6.6×6.6/ 4×4

The Classic Soft filter produces a classic Old-Hollywood close-up look, with image quality for current Hollywood needs. Would you like to achieve the same tonality as an old image of Cary Grant or Marlene Dietrich?

Size available: 4×5.65

The Digital Diffusion is a softening and diffusion filter specifically meant to appear invisible, as if no filtration is being applied. Compared to other diffusion filters, this filter offers virtually no flare or loss of contrast for more subtle applications. It helps to lessen facial blemishes, wrinkles, and gently smooth textured backgrounds while maintaining sharp focus.

Size available: 4×5.65

Responding to the demands of cinematographers, the Black Glimmerglass Filter features a grade 1 density and is designed to take the crisp edges off the images that modern lenses and digital cameras produce. The filter subtly softens the image and lowers detail resolution for those who want to simulate the look of film footage while shooting on digital gear. This black Glimmerglass model reduces contrast and overall sharpness and can smooth out unwanted blemishes, wrinkles, or other fine details in a subject’s face while keeping the general image in focus. Manufactured using ColorCore technology, the filter is designed to be accurate in its effect and to produce consistent results.

Size available: 4×5.65

The Black Satin filter helps to reduce the overall contrast of an image and better control the highlights within a scene. In addition to rendering highlights with a grittier, more grainy appearance, this filter also helps to subtly soften facial blemishes and wrinkles for a natural, refined look. The 1 density provides less contrast and highlight reduction than the 2, while still producing a soft, yet natural appearance.

Sizes available: 4×5.65

The Tiffen 4 x 5.65″ Glimmerglass 1 Filter is a beauty filter whose function is two-fold: in addition to modifying the appearance of the image itself, it also features a sparkling appearance when viewed from the front, instilling more confidence in the model. The filter itself helps to soften skin details, blemishes, and wrinkles. It also produces glowing highlights and a mild reduction in contrast for a more ethereal appearance.

Strengths Available: 1.8/ 1.4/ 1.2/ 1/ 2

Sizes Available: 4×5.65/ 4×4/ 4 1/2″/ Series 9/ 138mm

The Schneider 4 x 5.65″ Hollywood Black Magic 1 Filter can be applied to purposely reduce the appearance of blemishes and wrinkles. This can be useful for creating a more flattering image of a subject while highlight as well as mid-tone contrast is softened and glare is reduced. Additionally, a glowing effect around highlights is created, which can further enhance a subject’s appearance or produce a desired effect while overall sharpness is maintained.

Strengths Available: 1.8/ 1.4/ 1.2/ 1/ 2

Sizes Available: 4×5.65/ 4×4/ 4 1/2″/ Series 9/ 138mm

The Black Pearlescent Filter from Tiffen is a 1-step diffusion filter that can be applied to soften contrast and reduce image sharpness, resulting in a more flattering subject rendering by reducing the appearance of blemishes and softening highlights. This is particularly suitable for digital cinematography, as high-resolution cameras may be unforgiving. Additionally, it creates a slightly reduced pearlescent halo around highlights, which can further enhance a subject’s appearance or produce a desired effect; note that this effect is less pronounced than the halo effect of a white pearlescent filter.

Strengths Available: 1.8/ 1.4/ 1.2/ 1/ 2

Sizes Available: 4×5.65/ 4×4/ 4 1/2″/ Series 9/ 138mm

The Tiffen 58mm Low Contrast 3 Filter can be applied to purposely reduce contrast while photographing an image or while recording video. By redistributing illumination from brighter to darker areas within a scene, this filter is useful in helping to balance the tonal range among highlights and shadows. Detail is increased within shadow regions while a halation effect around highlights is created which can further enhance a scene’s appearance or produce a desired effect.

Strengths Available: 1.8/ 1.4/ 1.2/ 1/ 2

Sizes Available: 4×5.65/ 4×4/ 4 1/2″/ Series 9/ 138mm