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Adds magic without getting close to the sticky area
Modern lenses are extremely sharp and exceptionally corrected. As a result, they usually have a complete lack of character. This simple filter adds a touch of old-school magic and keeps things sharp. At the moment it fount its pretty much permanent home on my Fuji X100V.
PS: I hear you ask, can't we just add an effect X in the post? Sure we can. But an optical filter doesn't care about the dynamic range of your sensor because it doesn't have one of its own. When a highlight is blown it has no color information, so all effects in post treat it as pure white. But the optical filter doesn't care about the brightness - it will give your highlight a smooth fading halo, and even if your camera sensor perceives the "epicenter" as 255/255/255, the glow will retain color information (which in turn helps Photoshop when highlighting helps).
PS: I hear you ask, can't we just add an effect X in the post? Sure we can. But an optical filter doesn't care about the dynamic range of your sensor because it doesn't have one of its own. When a highlight is blown it has no color information, so all effects in post treat it as pure white. But the optical filter doesn't care about the brightness - it will give your highlight a smooth fading halo, and even if your camera sensor perceives the "epicenter" as 255/255/255, the glow will retain color information (which in turn helps Photoshop when highlighting helps).
22/02/2023