Hollywood Black Magic Filter

The Schneider 6.6X6.6 Hollywood Black Magic Filter is designed to take the edge off video, with stronger grades providing progressively more diffusion. The filter softens bright highlights while helping maintain rich blacks and colors.

Diffusion and Image Softening

The Hollywood Black Magic Filter is designed to provide a range of image-softening effects. Depending on the selected strength, it can go from slightly taking the edge off video to visually removing years from a person’s age.

The filter also provides pleasant softening of bright highlights that helps control exposure while maintaining rich blacks and colors.

Five Available Strengths

The Schneider 6.6X6.6 Hollywood Black Magic Filter is available in five strengths: 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1, and 2.

Each grade’s effect becomes approximately twice as strong with each grade number increase. The 1/8 grade provides the most subtle effect, while the 2 grade provides the strongest diffusion.

Hollywood Black Magic Effect

One user review described the filter as giving footage a professional and polished, cinematic look by blending diffusion with a gentle glow around light sources while keeping image clarity. This is a user review description rather than a specification of the filter.