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Tiffen 62GG12 Glimmerglass Camera Filter 62mm

Add a Touch of Softness and Halation to Your Images Introducing the Tiffen Glimmerglass® Camera Filter. This diffusion filter produces a soft, clean halation around light sources, while maintaining apparent sharpness. Ideal for portraits and scenes where you want to reduce contrast and create a g...

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Overview

Add a Touch of Softness and Halation to Your Images

Introducing the Tiffen Glimmerglass® Camera Filter. This diffusion filter produces a soft, clean halation around light sources, while maintaining apparent sharpness. Ideal for portraits and scenes where you want to reduce contrast and create a gentle, sparkling effect.

Specifications:

  • Filter Size: 62mm
  • Filter Type: Glimmerglass®
  • Diffusion Strength: 1/2

Key Features

ULTRA-SLIM AND DURABLE FRAME: The Glimmerglass Filter ultra-slim ring design ensures there’s no vignetting on wide-angle and telephoto lenses, keeping your image sharp and clean from edge to edge. Tiffen Glimmerglass Non-Slip ring allows for easy installation and removal, offering both durability and convenience for photographers and videographers.

DREAMY LOOK: This Glimmerglass filter helps create glowing highlight flares and reduce harsh contrast, enhancing your photos and videos with a smooth, dreamy, and professional appearance. It diffuses light without losing the sharpness of your image, creating a glowing atmosphere and dreamy feel on your projects.

IDEAL FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEOGRAPHY: Tiffen diffusion filters are ideal for all types of photography and video projects. This filter softens skin imperfections such as wrinkles and blemishes, giving your subjects a delicate, smooth, and glowing look. The Tiffen Glimmerglass filter adds a dreamlike quality to your photos and video, making the subject appear more elegant and polished by giving you a cinematic look and feel.

OPTICAL QUALITY GLASS WITH ADVANCED ColorCore TECHNOLOGY: Tiffen filters offer high quality optics achieving maximum flatness and parallelism. Tiffen ColorCore technology allows for consistent and lasting color and effects on every Tiffen filter.

WATER RESISTANT AND EASY TO MAINTAIN: This Camera Filter is water-resistant, providing extra protection in different weather conditions, especially during outdoor shoots. Its surface is easy to clean and maintain, ensuring it stays in top condition during frequent use.

Specifications

Filter Type
Glimmerglass Camera Filter
Filter Size
62mm
Technology
ColorCore Technology
Effects
Glowing Highlights, Softens Wrinkles and Blemishes, Sparkle Appearance

Pros & Cons

👍 Pros

  • Creates glowing highlights in images, adding a distinct aesthetic quality to photographs.
  • Effectively softens wrinkles and blemishes in subjects, which can enhance portrait photography.
  • Imparts a sparkle appearance, potentially adding a magical or ethereal touch to visuals.
  • Utilizes ColorCore Technology, suggesting advanced manufacturing for consistent and accurate filter effects.
  • The 62mm size makes it compatible with many standard camera lenses.

👎 Cons

  • The filter's effect, including "glowing highlights" and "sparkle appearance," might not be suitable for all photographic styles or scenes.
  • Specific details on the material composition of the filter beyond "ColorCore Technology" are not provided.
  • As a specialized effect filter, its versatility for general photography may be limited compared to neutral filters.
  • The degree of softening for wrinkles and blemishes is not quantified, so results may vary or require testing.
  • Requires a 62mm lens thread for direct attachment, which means adapters would be needed for other lens sizes.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Tiffen 62GG12 Glimmerglass filter primarily creates glowing highlights and imparts a sparkle appearance in your images, while also softening wrinkles and blemishes in subjects.
This feature means the filter helps to gently diffuse light, reducing the harshness of skin imperfections and making subjects appear smoother without losing critical detail.
ColorCore Technology is a proprietary manufacturing process used by Tiffen that involves laminating the filter material between two pieces of optical glass, ground flat to a tolerance of one ten-thousandth of an inch.
This Tiffen Glimmerglass filter is designed for lenses with a 62mm filter thread.
While versatile, the specific effects like glowing highlights and sparkle make it particularly suited for portraiture, glamour, or artistic photography where a softer, more ethereal look is desired, rather than purely documentary styles.

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