Tiffen 4x5.65" 81A Light Balancing Filter

With the Tiffen 4x5.65" 81A Light Balancing Filter, you can effortlessly enhance your photography by reducing excess blue tones often encountered when capturing sky or sea scenes, or during high altitude photography. This high-quality filter is particularly effective in warming 'cool' flash exposures, offering a subtle yet impactful difference to your images.

As the mildest option in the renowned 81 series, the 81A filter has a filter factor of 1.4, requiring an additional 1/2 f-stop of light. This versatile filter is designed to balance the color rendition on film, regardless of whether you're working with natural or artificial light sources.

The 81A filter is equipped with a 'filter factor', a measurement of the light it absorbs. This feature ensures that cameras with internal metering will automatically adjust the exposure, simplifying your photography process. For those using external or handheld meters, you'll need to account for this factor to achieve optimal results.

It's important to note that modern strobes (flash) approximate midday sun, so any warming or cooling filtration with flash should be based on 'daylight'. The 81 series warming filters are available in several strengths and sizes, providing options for every photographer's needs.

In addition to the 81A, the 81 series includes the 81B, which is slightly stronger, the 81C with twice the warming effect of the 81B, and the 81EF for an extremely strong warming effect. Other useful color correcting filters include the 82 series for a cooling effect, the 80 series for using daylight film in tungsten lighting, the 85 series for using tungsten film in daylight, and the FL-D and FL-B for using daylight and tungsten film in fluorescent lighting respectively.

Incorporate the Tiffen 4x5.65" 81A Light Balancing Filter into your photography toolkit to achieve a balanced, warm, and rich color palette in your images.