Hoya PRO ND EX Filter Kit 82mm

Hoya PRO ND EX is the renewed series of Hoya PRO ND filters.

Slow shutter photography is becoming an extremely popular genre and for this an Neutral Density (ND) filter is a necessary tool. Hoya's PRO ND EX Filter Kit is an essential filter kit designed for amateur or professional photographers and video content creators. The kit consists of the three most popular ND filters – PRO ND EX 8, PRO ND EX 64 and PRO ND EX 1000 - that allow photographers to control light and capture the world in different artistic expressions.

The choice of ND filters depends on the intentions of the photographer to control the shutter speed or aperture.

PRO ND EX 8 (3-stops) is essential for shooting with fast lenses at wide open aperture during the daytime, which is perfect for portraiture at shallow depth of field. The subject appears crisp and clear on the soft blurred background. Other recommended scenes are night trails, fireworks and lightning.

PRO ND EX 64 (6-stops) is essential for expressing objects in blurred motion during the daytime, which cannot be realized with camera settings only. Recommended for landscape, city snapshot, video and other photographic genres.

PRO ND EX 1000 (10-stops) is essential for expressing an unreal fantastical atmosphere thanks to its 10 stops reduction of the light amount. Widely used in seascape to blur the waves, street snap to apply clouds motion, and architecture to erase moving people.

The PRO ND EX Filter is a high technological product that is designed for still and HDSLR videography. The filter uses Hoya's exclusive clear optical glass that incorporates a metallic coating on front and back side to equally reduce almost all range of the light spectrum even in IR area. The ACCU-ND technology used in the coating process yields a truly neutral colour balance that will not add any noticeable colour cast to your images. The PRO ND EX filter incorporates a precisely developed thick aluminium frame to prevent light leakage, and thus obtain correct exposure and colour balance.

PRO ND EX filters can be combined to achieve desired effects in the image. For example, the combination of PRO ND EX 8 and PRO ND EX 64 will give the effect equal to a ND500 filter, which can be used to express an unreal fantasy world. The combination of PRO ND EX 8 and PRO ND EX 1000 will give the effect equal to ND8000, that will allow capture of the surface of the Sun without overexposure with solid colour and visibility of the black spots. PRO ND EX filers are also used in video production to achieve cinematic quality.

The PRO ND EX Filter Kit comes with a carry pouch that holds all three filters.