Suggestions for Must Have 4x4 Filters?

Artman009

Artman009

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(Wasn't 100% sure this belonged in the 'Hardware' section, so sorry if it's out of place.)

I'm shooting a feature in June, hopefully with a 4x4 Mattebox kit on DVX, and I was curious if anybody had any "must-have" suggestions for 4x4 filters that I need to get.

The movie's nothing big or elaborate, a simple feature film, mostly dialogue driven. My desire, like everybody else who got the DVX to make movies, is to get the best looking footage I can on screen so people will hopefully forget it was shot on a camcorder and enjoy the movie.

So, any suggestions people?
 
I really like the Schneider Maui Brown 1. It gets rid of blue and makes things look warm.
See Maui Jim's sunglassess for the color.
 
I can't belive nobody has said it, but a variety of normal NDs.

Try .3 .6 and .9.
 
Maybe because DVX has 2 builtin ND's ? Of course it isn't .3, but maybe shutter and iris can help in the difference.

Ulisses
 
I find that having those ND's in conjunction with the built in ND's are able to help you get a good exposure while still keeping the f stop smaller.
 
I agree with having the ND's - the ones in the lenses (XL2) are move in too large of steps for finessing an iris. I also have Tiffens "film look" kit which has a variety of diffusion filters meant to be used with DV. I like them but not all the time. Also I have both Schneider and Tiffen filters and like the Schneider ones better.

The next (and probably last) filter I will buy will be a Schneider DigiCon (but I do like my Maui Jim sunglasses, so I may have to check that filter out!)
 
Everybody has been raving about that Maui brown filter lately. I really want to see what all the hubub is about.
 
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