HOYA STAR Filter 4x 52mm
A SPARK INSIDE OF US
Imagine spending a warm spring evening with your friends around a campfire, going with your date to a lighted holiday park during a cold winter night, or watching a raindrop drip calmly over a flower after a summer storm. These scenes create a special sense of warmth and ease – a feeling that flickers like a warm spark inside us.
We created this filter to give us a chance to show that feeling of warmth in our photo. The filter is designed to create moderately sized beams of light from light sources while gently enhancing them, letting them appear as tiny sparks and creating a warm and cheerful atmosphere, just like the feeling inside us. Meet HOYA SPARKLE.
THE GLOW EFFECT
Conventional cross filters can appear with excessively long light beams, disorganizing and totally overloading your photos. Instead of letting the cross effect dominate your photo, HOYA SPARKLE aims to create a light-hearted atmosphere subtly, creating only moderately sized light beams. By doing so, the light sources themselves are also smoothly enhanced, creating a perfect balance between the intensity of the light source and the length of the light beams. Light sources can be anything – such as stars, light reflecting off water, or sun rays passing through the canopy of a tree.
HOYA SPARKLE IN ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY
The HOYA SPARKLE 4X is a filter that absolutely shines (literally) in night sky photography. By taking the brightest starlight sources and converting them into 4-pointed stars, the SPARKLE series creates a simply beautiful and mesmerizing effect in your photos – creating a new standard for astrophotography.
CHOOSE YOUR PATTERN
The SPARKLE series consists of the SPARKLE 4X and the SPARKLE 6X, creating a pattern of four crosses and a pattern of six crosses, respectively. Try both!
SOFT EFFECT
In the absence of strong light sources in the composition, HOYA SPARKLE produces a soft effect on your image, creating a dreamy atmosphere. This is especially recommended for portrait, flower, and landscape photography. You can further strengthen the soft effect by increasing the focal length towards the end of the telephoto!
SWIVEL FRONT BEZEL
By rotating the front frame, you can change the angle of the cross pattern. This allows you to always choose the perfect angle, further personalizing your photos!
GET THE BEST RESULTS!
- The crossover effect appears from single-point sources. Other forms of light sources, e.g. cylinder-shaped light, such as fluorescent lamps, will not produce an effect. There are also cases where large light sources prevent the crossover from appearing clearly. In these situations, try to move away from the interfering light source and try shooting again.
- The intensity of the light source, the focal length and the aperture value have an impact on the cross-effect.
- If your image is too dark when shooting lighting, try increasing the exposure compensation. On the other hand, if the image is too bright, try with a reduced exposure compensation.
- Cross-banding can be seen best in dark background settings. Also, focusing on the light source creates a sharper crossover effect.
- Depending on the conditions, a mesh-like reflection (strong light sources and backlit conditions) will occur.
- Increasing the focal length towards the telephoto edge will strengthen the smooth effect.
- Light rays can distort at wide angles.
- When the aperture is reduced to about f/22, light rays can become dotted.
- Under certain circumstances, HOYA SPARKLE produces a mesh pattern over the blurred parts of your image.
OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
The digital multi-coated glass allows a max. surface light reflection rate of 0.5%.
- The black-edged glass minimizes random reflections within the frame.
- The serration makes it easy to put on and remove the filter.
- UV absorption filter housing.
- Slim frame design to minimize vignetting, even with wide-angle lenses.
- Made in the quality of Japan!
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HOYA STAR Filter 4x 52mm
