Cromo Filters. Has anyone used these?

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In this video I am testing out CromoFilters that I have had for some time. I used my DSLR to test these filters, nice and simple stuff. I just wanted to see what they did to an image.
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[GaetanCormier]

The fact that these filters were made in France, it was probably an off-brand of Cokin who is to my knowledge the only french filter company out there. As always great video!

[carltanner]

Yep, like what everyone else has said...for colour pics. That little peg, you could use that to move around the graduation to different positions to "jazz" up different parts of your photo, apart from the sky. They were stackable filters, so you could preset the lower filters to a position and then do the same with each subsequent filter. Made for some pretty trippy pics!!! :P You can still buy these from brands like Neewer and the like, on eBay and Amazon. I have some that I bought more for the novelty than anything else :D

[gerardalain]

Circular gradual polarising filter that is actually harder and harder to find this is pretty cool for landscape especially with reflection like water or glass. You should test it on glass reflection and turn 0 degrees then 45 then 90 you should see quit a différence. But to be honest this is mainly for landscape scene with high contrast difference and lots of reflection like water . Also keep in mind that digital might not be able to manage the polarising effets so I recommend test with film. Cheers and keep up that awesome channel. Long live the analog

[yktube]

In the late seventies I worked in a "Leica Store" (Arguably the 1st in the USA !) in Southern California (Pasadena). Being a high end shop, we took on this line of Cokin filters.
Being French made them unique & the quality was quite evident; they actually sold very well...
Of course post processing now makes them obsolete (Variable section Gadient action)...

[peternagy]

For color film - not for black and white. 30 - 40 years ago the tobacco colored sky was so trendy . I was used the Cokin plastic one - it was ridiculously expensive in Hungary that time. I still have it . Living in the USA - emigrated with 2 suitcase and one wife - I have no idea how that filter and me survived .☺

[anthonymoreno]

Any reason you chose to pull down the saturation slider in Lightroom instead of selecting “Black and White” in the Developer module?

[rorryl]

They are graduated filters for color hue changes

[stephendacey]

These filters are primarily for use with colour, I remember using a pair to give strange effects on the sky and ground back in the late 70's early 80's on my spotmatic. They became quite popular in that period along with multi-image and starlight filters for advertising and experimentation to give unnatural look to landscapes etc but as I say primarily colour rather than BW.

[terrywbreedlove]

A graduated red, orange or yellow might be handy when shooting black and white film. To get the sky darker and the clouds more white in relation.

[theoldfilmbloke]

you should have don the photos in COLOUR as all you got was a Graduated GREY tone with no difference ! You had a Magenta and Yellow and Tobacco Grad - all look the same when in MONOCHROME ! I have some of the Cokin Square ones and a few of those round glass ones and have used them . Camera Club Judges 'Slate' the use of those Tobacco Grads !

[Arturo.H.M]

Graduated filters are very common to correct exposure in photography and very used in movies. Sure all us have seen movies with sky dark or colour shift.
I think thread filters have limited use because transitions are always in the center. There are graduated filter Cokin style that are rectangular, so you can move transition point, not only rotate it.

[erchata]

suscrito me encantan tus vídeos de laboratorio Barcelona España.

[malcsayer]

Hi Boss been a few months since I watched a video, I was wondering how come you never seem to have done test with filters (red, yellow, orange and green) when testing the various films you or did I miss something?

Regards

[alanstanway]

They were in the Cokin range and were intended for use with COLOUR film. Very much the kind of thing that got used once and were then stuffed in a drawer, rather like your set! Series 1 and series 2 were just different strengths.

[lensman]

These are the relics of the 70s. I had the Cokin Catalogue for these and the 70mm resin ones from Cokin up to few yars ago. They are just effect filters for colouring the sky. These days the Gray graduated ones are very popular as ND filters with modern photographers who either shoot digital or have no knowledge of developing a film to cope with the dynamic range of the scene. You can still get these on the Bay for about a fiver for a minty one. I am sure you can use them on BW film with wonderful if somewhat unpredictable results.

[Resgerr]

They are Cokin filters for creative work inside and out. Look on the Cokin website it tells you more

[victorcarmelo]

I still have a couple, Graduated Grey and a Tobacco one and looking at some of my old photos the latter was very very naff (Colour). The graduated grey was the best but because it was round it was of limited use compared to the square versions. They were french the original company was called Cokin and and quite cheap, all the rage before digital. The modern versions are up there with Lee filters in price and as advertised recently in photo mags The variety of filters was vast but most were very gimmicky. Except for the graduated grey, I would not use them in B+W photography but that's just me. Somewhere in the black depths of the house I have a brochure for them and if I hunt it down I will post it to you.

[alanwhite]

I remember theses from the late 70s and early 80s when tinting of the sky in colour images was the thing to do. I think they were released just before the Colin filters (same company?). The Colin filters were more popular because the tinting effect wasn’t fixed. I have some images from those days, using the Colin filters, that make me cringe with shame! The starburst was another filter I over used, but I was only a teenager.

[harrystevens]

Just high quality filters so you can tart up the sky, I wonder if you could use the darker area to dampen down a beach or snow see the beautiful moon in the sky last night in the UK sadly only BW film in my the sunflowers so for me out with the Kodak portra and some BW with a red

[andyu]

M1 = series1 M2 = series2 and the same for the other colors?