Schneider 4x5.65" Classic Soft # 1/8 Professional Glass Filter

Take your photography to the next level with the 4x5.65" Classic Soft # 1/8 Professional Glass Filter, a high-quality, durable, and versatile tool from the reputable brand Schneider. This professional-grade filter is designed with hundreds of evenly distributed Micro-Lenslets, creating a unique softening effect that effortlessly smooths out blemishes and minimizes wrinkles. The stronger grades, such as 1 and 2, add a mood to the scene by causing highlights to glow softly, perfect for portrait and nature photography.

Each Schneider filter is diamond cut from crystal-clear, water-white optical glass, then meticulously ground and polished to achieve precise flatness and plane-parallelism. This ensures an exact parallel relationship between the front and back filter surfaces. The perfection of each filter is verified by a laser interferometer, checked with a densitometer for consistent density, and tested with a spectrophotometer for optimal light transmission. This rigorous quality control process ensures ultra-high consistency, allowing photographers and cinematographers to swap like filters mid-shoot with no discernible variation in color or effect.

Schneider filters are renowned for their unprecedented purity, color saturation, and repeatability, virtually eliminating the need for lab color timing correction. They are designed to withstand the most demanding conditions on set or location, featuring Schneider's specially formulated hard anti-reflective (AR) coating to resist flaking, peeling, and scratching. This proprietary coating also reduces light loss and flare to less than 1% per surface, a significant improvement over untreated glass that has a light loss of 4% per surface.

Schneider's precision mounting rings are made from virtually jam-proof brass, ensuring a secure fit for your filter. Unmounted Schneider laminated filters are protected against delamination and edge-chipping by Schneider's unique Edge Seal, which also reduces edge reflection and edge flare.

Contrary to the common perception, Schneider filters can be used in front of even the longest lens without compromising image quality. These filters are diamond-cut from high-quality optical glass, then ground and polished to precise lens-making standards, offering unsurpassed clarity, light transmission, and color saturation. Even when stacked, Schneider filters remain the clear choice for use with any lens, providing an effective solution for all your photography needs.