Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

Gives you rich colors and depth of field with f. Stop wide open.

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

On the following Canon lenses, a huge black "X" was shown across all images when the filter was turned toward it's darker settings: 10-22mm, 18-200mm, 55-250mm, 18-55mm. It was also (lesser) apparent on these non crop-only lens: 50mm 1.8, 70-200mm f2.8 USM IS II. THe entire reason I bought it was to USE it mainly at those very dark settings. As they're all unusable due to the X, so is this fader.

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

Great for video work but it does vignette on my nikon 20-35 2.8. For the price I couldn't be happier. Has greatly improved my video look.

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

I use this product for shooting video outside. It does a great job reducing light into the camera to preserve F-Stop. It is easy to use and have a broad range. However, at different settings you can run into some issues with reflections and other things. It is a great alternative but not a perfect solution.

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

This is my second 77mm Fader ND MkII to cover my 2nd DSLR for events and weddings. It works perfectly, except when getting into the maximum settings where a dark X forms. This is easy to avoid.

The ability to dial in the required stops is fantastic when shooting on the fly and it allows you to retain those creamy depth of field shots even in the brightest of sunlight at 1/50th sec.

Highly recommended. Do yourself a big favour and buy the largest ND filter for your largest lens and then get a bunch of $6 step up rings for all your other lenses. Will save you a bunch of money. This one 77mm Fader ND works on my 50mm1.4, 17-55mm, 24-70mmL and 70-300mm with just one $6 58mm to 77mm step up ring.

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

For the price for what it does...buy it, you won't be disappointed.

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

I tested the filter and it is sharp at the different densities but a strong color shift towards warm about 300 degrees Kelvin.
This is not a huge issue since you can correct for that.
The color shift was consistent throughout the density range

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

I use this to shoot video on my hacked GH2. Love not having to deal w/ numerous filters, just turn the wheel to adjust ND. Image quality from cam w/ filter on is excellent. Highly recommended.

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

This is a great ND filter at a great price. No complains about it.

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

I read many reviews and expected the product to work well. It does. My concern was that it would vignette when used with an 11-16mm wide-angle lens. It doesn't! At least not on the T2i.

The lens end is 77mm, but the front end is 82mm, which also helps with vignetting. And it comes with an 82mm plastic lens cap, which feels slightly cheap-o but does the job.

This is a must-have piece of gear for shooting DSLR video outdoors. It works very well!

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

The ring is a little stiff otherwise I would give it a 5.

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

this mark ii fader nd and a genus fader nd were my first experiences with these devices and the mark ii has been a bit of a disappointment. i'm not fluent enough with optics to know how much the focal length of my lens - 11-17mm zoom - is to blame for the poor performance, but vignetting greatly reduces the usable range of this filter for me. it seems also degrade, not just darken, the image i get when recording video with my 7d. newcomers should beware that you'll need a larger lens cap when using these nd filters and if you get the lightcraft you'll need to buy one yourself; lightcraft provides the lousiest joke of a lens cap imaginable. in sum, it appears you get what you pay for in nd faders, which is sad because [$]- isn't pocket change for most of us.

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

I used this ND fader filter on my UWA lens for long exposure shots @ the beach. And it worked great, but not @ the full 8 stop setting. @ full power you get a large "X" pattern that forms from uneven exposure. Now if u go at say 6 stops its perfect. Nice even effect. Another nice feature is the fact that it is a 82mm front element so on a UWA lens you dont have to crop out the filter edges. If ur looking to go 30+ sec exposures u should prolly get the the MKII (9-12) stop filter by light craft instead.

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

Great build quality,like the lens hood that comes with it

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

I use this to control the amount light entering the camera and the biggest advantage is that one can set it at low density and focus then change the density without losing focus. Gone are my days of needing to remove my filters for focusing purposes.
One of the drawback is that it is not really usable at max setting in certain conditions.

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

I use this to shoot with any lens on any HDSLR outside when i don't have controlle over lighting great for almost anything outside

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

The construction is very good; solid mechanical build and smooth rotation. However, when set at maximum density with wide angle lenses, the ND effect is not even across the image. The instructions included with the filter mention that, and it would have been nice to include that tidbit of information in the product description. With my 24-105 lens and 5DII, the effect is very visible at 24, 35, and 50mm settings. I stopped testing after that. It may be suitable for an APS-C body since the adverse effect is on the edges, but is unsuitable for WA lenses on a full frame body. I don't know if this is an issue with all variable ND filters, or just this manufacturer.

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

very usefull in bright light ans small aperture combination

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Hello i'm a videographer en working with the Canon 5D.

first this product works really well !!
but the price is to high i think.

NOTE: if you buy a other ND filter for your 5d Lens, you need to know that the glass of the ND filter need to be the same as your lens. Much ND filters are cheap but the glass is not good.

Comments about Light Craft 77mm Fader ND Mark II Filter:

I like shooting outdoors with a flash as the dominant light source. Faders of this kind help reduce natural light input into camera to be able to use the appropriate shutter speed to allow just the right quantity of ambient light versus flash power.

So if you like to have a more dominant flash presence in the shot versus ambient light, this fader gives you good options. I hesitated buying the more and most expensive brand because I can buy a prime lens at that price. With this Light Craft fader, I get the same effect at a very affordable price. Quality looks good.