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Tiffen 62OR21 62mm #21 Orange Filter
Enhance Your Black and White Photography with Dramatic ContrastThe Tiffen 62mm #21 Orange Filter is designed to enhance contrast in black and white photography. By absorbing blue and blue-green colors, it darkens blues, making it ideal for landscape, marine, and aerial shots. Tiffen filters are m...
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Overview
Enhance Your Black and White Photography with Dramatic Contrast
The Tiffen 62mm #21 Orange Filter is designed to enhance contrast in black and white photography. By absorbing blue and blue-green colors, it darkens blues, making it ideal for landscape, marine, and aerial shots. Tiffen filters are manufactured using ColorCore technology, ensuring high quality and durability. This filter is essential for creating striking black and white images.
Key Features
Enhance Black & White Impact - Create stronger contrast and improved tonal separation in black-and-white photography. The Tiffen #21 Orange Filter helps define clouds, landscapes, architecture, and distant subjects, delivering greater depth and visual drama.
Classic Orange Filter Effect – Designed to absorb blue and blue-green wavelengths, helping darken skies, enhance cloud detail, and create stronger contrast throughout black and white images while maintaining optical clarity. Compared to a #16 Orange Filter, the#21 Orange Filter delivers a stronger contrast effect with deeper sky darkening and greater tonal separation, making it ideal for photographers seeking a more dramatic monochrome look.
Ideal For Landscape, Marine & Aerial Photography – Capture richer skies, better definition in distant scenery, and more dramatic water tones when shooting outdoors, making everyday scenes appear more striking and expressive.
Balanced Contrast For Creative Control – Stronger than a yellow filter yet more versatile than a red filter, making the #21 Orange Filter a favorite choice for photographers seeking bold contrast without an overly dramatic effect.
TRUSTED TIFFEN QUALITY | MADE IN NEW YORK – Built with high-quality optical glass mounted in a durable metal filter ring, this screw-in filter installs quickly and securely for reliable performance in the field. Manufactured in New York using Tiffen's precision ColorCore technology, photographers have relied on Tiffen filters for generations to deliver consistent image quality and dependable creative results.
Specifications
Filter Type
#21 Orange Filter
Diameter
62mm
Effect Comparison
Deeper than Orange 16 filter
Light Absorption
Absorbs blue and blue green
Primary Application
Black-and-white imaging
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the main purpose of the Tiffen 62OR21 #21 Orange Filter?
The Tiffen 62OR21 #21 Orange Filter is primarily for black-and-white imaging, where it effectively absorbs blue and blue-green light to enhance contrast.
How does this filter compare to an Orange 16 filter?
This 62mm #21 Orange filter is described as deeper than an Orange 16 filter, indicating a more pronounced effect on tonal separation.
What size lens is this filter designed for?
This Tiffen filter has a 62mm diameter, making it suitable for camera lenses that accept 62mm filters.
Is this filter suitable for enhancing colors in my photographs?
No, the Tiffen 62OR21 #21 Orange Filter is primarily intended for black-and-white imaging and is not designed to enhance colors.
What specific colors does this filter absorb?
This filter specifically absorbs blue and blue-green light, which results in those tones appearing darker in your black-and-white photographs.
Can this filter make skies appear more dramatic in black and white?
Yes, by absorbing blue light, the Tiffen 62OR21 filter can make skies appear darker and more dramatic in black-and-white landscape photography.
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