Schneider 4x4" Coral # 1/2, Warm Color Balancing Professional Glass Filter

A quintessential tool for professional photographers and cinematographers, the 4x4" Coral #1/2 Warm Color Balancing Professional Glass Filter by Schneider is engineered to enhance your visual storytelling. This high-quality, durable filter is specifically designed to correct and warm up cool lighting conditions that are typically encountered during overcast days or when shooting in open shade. Its warming effect is essential for achieving natural-looking skin tones and can add a touch of drama to your images by creating sunset or dawn effects at any time of the day.

Crafted with precision, each Schneider Coral filter is diamond cut from crystal-clear, water-white optical glass, ensuring the highest clarity and fidelity in your images. The glass is meticulously ground and polished to achieve flatness and plane-parallelism, guaranteeing sharpness and consistency across the entire surface. This level of precision is confirmed using a laser interferometer, ensuring that each filter meets Schneider's rigorous standards for quality.

The effectiveness of the Schneider Coral filter is further enhanced by its single-layer coating, which significantly reduces reflections and glare. This proprietary anti-reflective coating is formulated to withstand the challenges of on-set use, resisting flaking, peeling, and scratching, while also minimizing light loss and flare to less than 1% per surface. This is a stark contrast to untreated glass, which typically experiences a light loss of 4% per surface.

Schneider's commitment to consistency means that cinematographers can interchange filters without worrying about variations in color or effect, streamlining the production process and reducing the need for post-production color timing corrections. The unparalleled purity, color saturation, and repeatability of these filters are what make them a trusted choice for industry professionals.

Moreover, the Schneider Coral filter challenges the common misconception that filters should not be used with long lenses due to potential image degradation. Schneider's advanced manufacturing techniques ensure that their filters maintain image quality, even when used with lenses that have a critically short depth of field. This allows for creative flexibility and peace of mind, knowing that the integrity of your vision will not be compromised.

In summary, the 4x4" Coral #1/2 Warm Color Balancing Professional Glass Filter is an effective, professional-grade tool that offers both corrective and creative capabilities to photographers and cinematographers seeking to elevate their work with warm, consistent, and high-quality imagery.