Product Description

Neutral density filters are used to slow shutter speeds with fast films, to decrease depth of field, and to lower the effective ISO of high speed film ND filters are often overlooked by beginning photographers, despite multiple uses.

Product Details

• Brand: Tiffen
• Model: 77ND6
• Dimensions: .15 pounds

Features

• Eliminates overly bright, washed-out images
• Balances exposure
• Controls depth of field
• 77mm diameter
• For use with F-stop 2 on a manual camera; for all film types, color or black and white

Amazon.com Product Description
Reduces the amount of light passing through the camera lens without changing the color of the scene. This filter is especially useful in bright light conditions. Allows proper exposure at a wider lens opening when reducing depth of field to highlight a key subject by making the foreground and/or the background out of focus. A slower shutter speed can be used to produce blurred motion effects.

Customer Reviews

High Quality filter
I use it with my Olympus E-330 Great for water falls and depth control. Great for sports events where you want to blur the background using pan motion
Very nice product

Great filter for waterfalls
This product works great for taking pictures of waterfalls (with a tripod) or for any time you need to use a slower shutter speed. I haven't had any problems with it, used it twice.

Beautiful blue skies, although that's not exactly what it's intended for
Review of the Tiffen 77mm ND 0.6 Filter

ND filters reduce the amount of light entering your camera's lens, slowing down your shutter speed and letting you blur backgrounds when shooting panning action shots. Instead I bought it in lieu of a polarizer to bring out the color in skies, because it has effects similar to polarizers with respect to fixing washed out skies, although it doesn't offer some of the other features polarizers offer.

Nevertheless, I brought this filter on my school trip to Spain for outside shooting (it takes away 2 stops of light so it's not recommended for indoor, night, or available light shooting) on my Sigma 10-20 and Canon 40D, and the pictures it produced are absolutely breathtaking. Sure, part of it was due to Spain's beautiful architecture, but the filter made the skies a deep blue and the buildings really stood out against the blue skies.

I haven't done a lot of action shooting since I bought the filter, especially not on a 10-20 lens, so I can't comment on what effect this lens has on blurring backgrounds in action shots, but for my own purchases I was extremely pleased I bought this filter.