You can elevate your photography to professional levels with the 60mm Basic 701M 0.3 1-Stop MRC Graduated Neutral Density Filter, a high-quality accessory designed to enhance your landscape and portrait images. This durable filter features a neutral gray gradient that reduces light transmission by 50% (1 f-stop), allowing you to darken specific areas of your composition, such as an overly bright sky, without altering the natural colors. Achieve stunning cloud definition and prevent the blue sky from washing out due to overexposure, all while maintaining a correct exposure on the ground.Crafted with precision, the B+W filter boasts a smooth transition from its neutral gray half to a clear half, ensuring a seamless blend in your images. The versatility of this filter is further enhanced by its rotatable mount, which allows for precise horizontal alignment when attached to threaded lenses. This feature is particularly effective for balancing the exposure between a vivid sky and a darker landscape, a common challenge in outdoor photography.The 60mm Basic 701M filter is constructed from high-quality glass that is absolutely plano-parallel and finely polished, ensuring long-lasting optical clarity and resistance to scratches, unlike filters made from plastic substrates. Its effectiveness is rooted in B+W's meticulous manufacturing process, which applies the gray gradient using advanced thin-layer technology and special masking. Although the graduation boundary may not be exactly parallel due to manufacturing tolerances, this slight deviation is outside the focus range and does not affect the visual impact of your photographs.Ideal for photographers seeking to control exposure and depth of field, this easy-to-use filter allows for wider apertures and slower shutter speeds, creating a shallower depth of field for a more dramatic and focused subject portrayal. Whether you're capturing the grandeur of landscapes or the subtlety of portrait expressions, the 60mm Basic 701M 0.3 1-Stop MRC Graduated Neutral Density Filter is an indispensable tool for achieving balanced exposures and artistic effects with ease and precision.
Merchant: B + W
Category: Photography/Lens Filters/Neutral Density Filters
