Cokin is a French manufacturer, founded by photographer Jean Coquin in 1978, and is famous for inventing the square filter system for cameras. With such a long-standing pedigree in the filter space ...

The best Graduated Neutral Density filters, also called ND grads or GND filters for short, are similar to ND filters, which act a bit like sunglasses for your lens, reducing the intensity of sunlight ...

A camera lens filter is pretty much what you’d expect: it’s a physical piece of glass that attaches to your camera’s lens, filters the light before it reaches the sensor and, typically, has an effect ...

What is a reverse ND grad? A reverse ND grad darkens skies, just like a normal ND grad, but instead of getting darker towards the top of the filter, it has the darkest part close to the transition in ...

Since the 1800s, photo filters have been used to apply different effects to photographs. Nowadays, many of these filters are no longer relevant, due to the increasing capabilities of editing programs ...

Sony’s new Digital Filter app emulates the behaviour of a graduated ND filter, allowing the user to set different exposure compensation values for each of three horizontal bands across the image.

Sony’s latest software add-on is making HDR and graduated neutral density filters look a little old school. Launched today, Digital Filter is an app for Sony cameras designed to mimic the effect of ...

The OM System OM-1 Mark II looks to build on the stellar reputation of its two-year-old predecessor with an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary approach. OM System, the company that now owns the ...

A quality ND filter (short for neutral density filter) cuts the amount of light coming into the camera without affecting the color or overall appearance of the image. While photographers often want ...