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Hi everybody, my name is Bohus, speaking to you for Fotodiox
and in this video we're going to go over our favorite five facts about the
all-new
Vizelex ND Throttle. It's a lens adapter with a variable
ND filter built right into it. Alright, fact number one:
now this has some actual science in it, so I hope you're sitting down.
Variable NDs are great except they don't work really well
at wider focal lengths, like on my Canon lens here,
down at the bottom end we've got twenty four millimeter thirty five millimeter.
You'll actually see a pronounced visual effect where the ND just
isn't working right. I'll show you in fact. Let's put a regular adapter
on this Sony camera,
like so, and let's put this variable ND filter on.
Screw it to the front of the lens like you normally do.
Okay. Now if I fire up the camera
and let's just aim it at the
white background behind me, and
I'm just gonnat take a picture. Do you see the shadow in the upper left and the lower right?
That's what the variable ND does on a wide lens.
We also mounted a variable ND on the Canon 18 to 55 millimeter kit lens,
and that shaded cross is even worse! But that's just how it is with variable ND
on the front of a wide lens.
If we zoom in a little bit, you zoom right into the center of that shaded area
and take a picture...and you're fine. So,
again when you zoom in you're gonna be okay but if you want to use your lens,
you know, kinda wide, you're just always gonna run into a problem with a variable ND
on the front. That's why the ND Throttle
puts the variable ND in the adapter itself, so no matter how wide you're
shooting your lens,
you'll never see that effect.
So now that I've got the Vizelex ND Throttle on, the
ND is behind the lens, so you're not gonna run into that strange kind of cross
shaded effect, in fact I'll set the lens to its widest
and again just shoot the white background... There you go,
no problem. Number two: if you're working on a shoot with multiple lenses and
you're going to be swapping between them, you don't want to have to bring along a
whole pile of ND filters in all different sizes to fit all those
different lenses.
Well, with the ND Throttle its all built right in
and it's just easy to switch a lens out, fly a new one on,
and you're ready to go just as soon as you mount the lens right onto the
adapter.
Another kind of side benefit is that, you know, you've got
ND glass in there so it protects your sensor a little bit while you're
switching your lenses around. But mainly it's all about being ready to go
just as soon as you put that lens on. Number three:
The ND Throttle takes you from ND 2 to ND1000,
and every value in between. So no more trial and error going through
a pile of ND filters trying to find exactly the right one for your
shot. You just dial in however much you want.
Number four: the ND Throttle let's you shoot at lower f-stops even in bright
shooting conditions, and that means you can get those shallow depth of field effects
for dramatic,
cinematic effects in your video or in your photos. And number five: if you're shooting stills
you can do dramatic long exposures even in bright sunlight
just by dialing up the variable ND. So you can get these beautiful, artistic
blurred effects no matter what the shooting conditions are like.
Right now you can get this
Vizelex ND Throttle that connects any Sony
E-mount, NEX-type camera to a Canon EOS lens,
and it gives you versatile, variable ND right inside the adapter.
If you just click the link down below this video it'll take you right to the
order page
and you can have this in your hot little hands right now. But we've been reading in
the comments
from our prior videos that you folks have other things in mind for the
ND Throttle,
so which ND Throttle would you like to see next? Would you like to see one on
your Canon camera
or your Micro Four Thirds camera? You wanna see support for Nikon lenses?
Just let us know down below and you can help us decide which
ND Throttle Vizelex should make next. My name is Bohus,
thanks for watching!