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Formatt Hitech 100mm Firecrest Ultra Patrick

User Manual for Formatt Hitech 100mm Firecrest Ultra Patrick Di Fruscia Signature Edition Pro Essentials Filter Kit

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Product description

• 100 x 100mm Firecrest Ultra ND 1.2 Filter (4-Stop) Exhibiting improved clarity, flatness, and reduced reflectivity, the 100 x 100mm Firecrest Ultra ND 1.2 Filter from Formatt Hitech is a neutral density filter providing a 4-stop reduction in exposure. This 1.2 density creates a darkening of the entire image, allowing you to photograph with a wider aperture or longer shutter speed than normally required. By slowing your exposure time or increasing your aperture, you can control depth of field and convey movement more easily. Designed using inspiration from their cine Firecrest filters, this Ultra line of filters receives an additional lapping and polishing process during production to ensure lower reflectivity and improved clarity and sharpness.
  
  The design of this filter has been optimized for use with digital sensors and promotes nearly flat attenuation of visible, UV, and infrared light. Due to imaging sensors' greater susceptibility to infrared light compared to traditional film, color casts can occur when photographing darker subjects that require increased exposure times. This filter provides a high level of neutrality across all three spectrums in order to eliminate color casts and ensure cleaner, truer blacks.
  
  Applied to the outside of the SCHOTT Superwite glass construction is a 15-layer Firecrest multi-coating, which helps to minimize reflections and flare in order to maintain truer colors and contrast. The multi-coating is also scratch-resistant and hydrophobic to benefit the overall durability of the filter. It measures 3.9 x 3.9" / 100 x 100mm and is 0.08" / 2mm-thick, making it compatible with the Formatt Hitech 100mm Filter Holder.
  • The Ultra series of Firecrest filters exhibit greater clarity and have lower reflectivity than the original Firecrest filters. Borrowing from the range of Firecrest cine filters, the Ultra series undergo a secondary lapping and polishing process after the initial polishing and bonding stage. This additional step helps to ensure flatness and consistency for improved image quality.
  • ND 1.2 filter darkens the image, allowing you to photograph with a longer shutter speed or wider aperture than normally required.
  • Providing a 4-stop exposure reduction, this filter allows you to control depth of field and convey movement more easily.
  • It attenuates infrared light as well as visible and UV wavelengths to maintain color neutrality and suppress color casts due to increased exposure lengths.
  • The 15-layer Firecrest coating has been applied directly to the outside of the filter glass by way of a vacuum-formed, hard-coated, electrolytic process. The multi-coating is water- and scratch-resistance for greater overall durability.
  • SCHOTT Superwite glass promotes maintained image clarity and its 2mm-thick design is compatible with the Formatt Hitech 100mm Filter Holder.
  UPC: 886235212766
• 100 x 150mm Firecrest Ultra Soft Edge Graduated ND 0.9 Filter Exhibiting improved clarity, flatness, and reduced reflectivity, the 100 x 150mm Firecrest Ultra Soft Edge Graduated ND 0.9 Filter from Formatt-Hitech helps to balance the overall exposure within a high-contrast scene. Ideal for situations involving both bright and dark areas, such as an open sky and shadowed foreground, half of the filter has 0.9 neutral density and the other half is clear, with a soft-edged transition between the two that is ideally suited for use with medium and wide-angle lenses or when there is an uneven, undulating horizon. By reducing the exposure in selective areas, you are able to balance the overall exposure of the scene in order to gain detail in both bright and dark areas.
  
  Designed using inspiration from their cine Firecrest filters, these Ultra filters receive an additional lapping and polishing process during production to ensure lower reflectivity and improved clarity and sharpness. This filter has also been optimized for use with digital sensors and promotes nearly flat attenuation of visible, UV, and infrared light. Due to imaging sensors' greater susceptibility to infrared light, compared to traditional film, color casts can occur when photographing darker subjects that require increased exposure times. This filter provides a high level of neutrality across all three spectrums in order to eliminate color casts and ensure cleaner, truer blacks.
  
  Applied to the outside of the Schott Superwite glass construction is a 15-layer Firecrest multi-coating, which helps to minimize reflections and flare in order to maintain truer colors and contrast. The multi-coating is also scratch-resistant and hydrophobic to benefit the overall durability of the filter. It measures 3.9 x 5.9" / 100 x 150mm and is 0.08" / 2mm-thick, making it compatible with the Formatt-Hitech 100mm Filter Holder.
  • The Ultra Firecrest series filters exhibit greater clarity and have lower reflectivity than the original Firecrest filters. Borrowing from the range of Firecrest cine filters, the Ultra series filters undergo a secondary lapping and polishing process after the initial polishing and bonding stage. This additional step helps to ensure flatness and consistency for improved image quality.
  • Graduated ND 0.9 filter for darkening skies and other bright areas of the image.
  • Provides a 3-stop reduction in light in selective areas.
  • Soft-edge transition is ideal for circumstances there is not a distinct line of separation between the bright and dark zones of the image.
  • Vertical orientation filter's line of transition runs parallel to the short side of the filter.
  • Attenuates infrared light, as well as visible and UV wavelengths, to maintain color neutrality and suppress color casts due to increased exposure lengths.
  • The 15-layer Firecrest coating has been applied directly to the outside of the filter glass by way of a vacuum-formed, hard-coated, electrolytic process. The multi-coating is water- and scratch-resistance for greater overall durability.
  • Schott Superwite glass promotes maintained image clarity and its 2mm-thick design is compatible with the Formatt-Hitech 100mm Filter Holder.
  UPC: 886235212889
• 100mm Firecrest Filter Holder Kit The Formatt Hitech 100mm Firecrest Filter Holder Kit is designed to allow for the convenient use of up to two, separately-available 100mm-wide, 2mm-thick filters along with an included circular polarizer. This kit comes fully assembled and features a holder which has its sides encased within a cover that helps to eliminate stray light, which could have unwanted effects on exposure, from coming in between any installed filters, as well as the filter holder and the lens behind it.
  
  The included aluminum-alloy filter holder is pre-installed with two pairs of plastic filter slots, a configuration that accommodates two rectangular filters. These slots are attached to the filter holder by a total of four screws, which also serve to apply pressure on any filters placed between the slots. Those screws can be loosened or tightened using the included Allen wrench to vary the level of grip upon the inserted filters, which can complement the use of graduated filters whose effect can be adjusted to better suit changing lighting conditions or creative demands by sliding them up or down within a filter slot.
  
  The filter holder cover is constructed from a matte black, scratch-resistant plastic that can be pulled in half to allow access to the filter holder. Compatible 100 x 100mm filters can fit entirely within the cover when they are installed on the holder. To permit the use of rectangular graduated filters that are 100mm-wide, but may be longer than 100mm, the ends of each half of the filter holder cover features two caps that can be substituted for two included slotted caps. Those slotted caps allow rectangular graduated filters to be used with minimal stray light even as they extend beyond the dimensions of the cover while it is assembled.
  
  A built-in gasket placed along the front of the filter holder further ensures that stray light does not come between an installed rectangular filter and a connected lens, regardless of which filter holder cover end caps are in place. Use of the filter holder can be easily accomplished by first screwing the included 82mm filter holder adapter ring onto a lens with 82mm front filter threads. Step-up rings are included to allow the adapter ring to be used with lenses that have 67mm, 72mm, or 77mm front filter threads; while additional step-up rings are separately available for lenses with 46mm, 52mm, 58mm, or 62mm front filter threads. After being fitted onto the adapter ring, the filter holder's pull-and-release locking lever helps to provide a reliable, yet adjustable connection that allows the holder to be rotated 360°, further benefiting the use of graduated neutral density and other filters that are enhanced by varied positioning.
  
  The 82mm adapter ring also accommodates the included Formatt Hitech 82mm Firecrest UltraSlim Circular Polarizer Filter for 100mm Firecrest Filter Holder Kit. When combined with the adapter ring and installed onto a lens with 82mm front filter threads, or adapted to lenses with other front filter thread diameters, the polarizer filter can be rotated to adjust its effect. The combination of the circular polarizer and the adapter ring, plus an optional step-up ring, can also be used with the filter holder with or without its cover installed. In such instances, an external dial on the filter holder allows for the independent rotation of the circular polarizer.
  
  Alternatively, separately-available filter holder adapter rings accommodate the circular polarizer as well. They provide the ability to mount the filter holder onto a lens with 72mm or 77mm front filter threads without the need for the 82mm adapter ring and an additional step-up ring. When the filter holder is used on a wide-angle lens with 72mm or 77mm front filter threads, those adapter rings can help prevent vignetting.
  • • Durable aluminum-alloy filter holder with matte black, scratch-resistant plastic cover that can be pulled in half to allow access to the filter holder
    • Cover helps to eliminate stray light from coming in between any installed filters, as well as the filter holder and the lens behind it
    • Filter holder provides two pairs of filter slots, a configuration that accommodates up to two 2mm-thick rectangular filters
    • Compatible 100 x 100mm filters can fit entirely within the cover when they are installed on the holder
    • Ends of each half of the filter holder cover features two caps that can be substituted for two included slotted caps to permit the use of rectangular graduated filters that are 100mm-wide, but may be longer than 100mm
    • Use of the filter holder can be easily accomplished by first screwing included 82mm filter holder adapter ring onto a lens with 82mm front filter threads
    • Included step-up rings allow adapter ring to be used with lenses that have 67mm, 72mm, or 77mm front filter threads
    • Additional step-up rings are separately available for lenses with 46mm, 52mm, 58mm, or 62mm front filter threads
    • Pull-and-release locking lever on filter holder allows for adjustment of filter holder's grip for 360° rotation on adapter ring
    • Ability to vary grip on installed rectangular filters to complement the use of graduated filters whose effect can be adjusted to better suit changing lighting conditions or creative demands by sliding them up or down within a filter slot
    • Adapter ring accommodates included Formatt Hitech 82mm Firecrest UltraSlim Circular Polarizer Filter for 100mm Firecrest Filter Holder Kit and allows it to rotate for adjustment of its effect
    • Polarizer filter and adapter ring can be used on a lens with 82mm front filter threads, or adapted to lenses with other front filter thread diameters using included or separately-available step-up rings
    • Circular polarizer and the adapter ring, plus an included or separately-available step-up ring, can also be used with the filter holder with or without its cover installed
    • External dial on filter holder allows for the rotation of the polarizer filter when it is used with the adapter and filter holder
    • Alternatively, separately-available filter holder adapter rings also accommodate the circular polarizer and provide the ability to mount the filter holder onto a lens with 72mm or 77mm front filter threads without the need for the 82mm adapter ring and an additional step-up ring; helping to prevent vignetting when the filter holder is used on wide-angle lenses with 72mm or 77mm front filter threads
    • Nylon pouch with touch-tab closure features six compartments for organization, storage, and transport
  UPC: 886235211707

• Filter Case

• Filter Case

• Filter Holder

• 4 x Filter Slot

• 4 x Screw

• 2 x Filter Holder Half-Section Cover

• 2 x Solid Filter Holder Cover End Cap

• 2 x Slotted Filter Holder Cover End Cap

• Allen Wrench

• 82mm Filter Holder Adapter Ring for 100mm Firecrest Filter Holder Kit

• 67-82mm Step-Up Ring for 100mm Firecrest Filter Holder Kit

• 72-82mm Step-Up Ring for 100mm Firecrest Filter Holder Kit

• 77-82mm Step-Up Ring for 100mm Firecrest Filter Holder Kit

• 82mm Firecrest UltraSlim Circular Polarizer Filter for Formatt Hitech 100mm Firecrest Filter Holder Kit

• Storage Pouch

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• Patrick Di Fruscia Essentials Booklet

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Technical parameters

• 100 x 100mm Firecrest Ultra ND 1.2 Filter (4-Stop)

  Filter Type	Solid ND
  Density	1.2 (4 Stops)
  Rectangular Size	3.94 x 3.94" / 100.0 x 100.0 mm
  Filter Thickness	0.08" / 2 mm
  Filter Material	Glass
  Coatings	Multi-Coating, Resistance Coating

  Box Dimensions (LxWxH)	5.75 x 5.75 x 1.0"

• 100 x 150mm Firecrest Ultra Soft Edge Graduated ND 0.9 Filter

  Filter Type	Graduated ND
  Graduation Type	Soft Edge
  Graduation Direction	Vertical
  Density	0.9 (3 Stops)
  Shape	Rectangle
  Rectangular Size	3.94 x 5.91" / 100.0 x 150.0 mm
  Filter Thickness	0.08" / 2 mm
  Filter Material	Glass
  Coatings	Multi-Coating, Resistance Coating

  Box Dimensions (LxWxH)	5.9 x 5.7 x 1.0"

• 100mm Firecrest Filter Holder Kit

  Material	Filter Holder: Aluminum-alloy Filter Holder Slots: Plastic Filter Holder Cover: Plastic Filter Holder Cover End Caps: Plastic Filter Holder Adapter Ring: Aluminum-alloy Step-Up Rings: Aluminum-alloy Circular Polarizer Filter: Schott Superwhite glass with aluminum-alloy filter ring Padded Pouch: Nylon
  Compatibility	Filter Holder: Accepts up to two 100mm-wide rectangular filters up to 2mm-thick Filter Holder and Filter Holder Adapter Ring: Accepts up to two 100mm-wide rectangular filters up to 2mm-thick and included Formatt Hitech 82mm Firecrest UltraSlim Circular Polarizer Filter for 100mm Firecrest Filter Holder Kit Filter Holder Adapter Ring: Connects filter holder to lenses with 82mm front filter threads Step-Up Rings: Connects filter holder adapter ring to lenses with 67, 72, or 77mm front filter threads
  Rotating	Yes, 360°
  Dimensions	4.9 x 4.5 x 0.7" (12.5 x 11.5 x 1.8 cm)
  Weight	6.4 oz (0.2 kg)

  Box Dimensions (LxWxH)	6.6 x 6.1 x 2.2"

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