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ARBY
2025-08-01 17:50:01
This is a top quality item and very cool and fun for getting creative with photography! A cool addition that not everyone thinks to do. Fun with cellphone cameras or mirrorless and DSLRs. Highly recommend this one as I have another "name brand" one and it fell apart, this feels way more secure. 5 stars!
I.T.Guy
2025-06-29 15:01:17
It works great, however keep in mind that it's not multicoated. It created flairs when I was taking photos outdoors but I think this adds to the charm of the glass. I would reccomend it.When using this item, hold it out on the edge of the lens about 1-3 inches away to get that classic diopter look.This piece is about a third of the cost of a well known name-brand and is of the same quality. It's a great value.
nicole n.
2025-06-09 16:31:42
I got the split Diopter effect filter. It looks pretty neat in the camera, but it is a bit tricky to use and requires some experimenting to get the right effect.It does the job well, but given that I have to spend so much time trying to get the right angle with it, I don't know that I will actually end up using this very much.Also, when I do place it up to the lens I can often see the middle line where it is split, and I don't want this to show up in the photo, so again, I have to finagle the angle at which I hold it to get it where I want it.Overall, this is a decent product, and if I spend more time with it I'm sure I will get the hang of it, but right out of the box it is a bit tricky to work with.
Paul P
2025-05-17 12:04:22
This is a cool effect piece of glass, but I'm hesitant to call it a filter. It's not, at least in the truest sense. A filter has, well, filter threads. While this technically filters light, so does any piece of glass (or paper, or plastic, or anything else that isn't solid sheet metal, I guess). If you're not willing to call a piece of a kid's swimming pool a camera filter, then this isn't either.It's fine, and I guess if you had a really specific use case, and had the camera tripod mounted, and were really careful, then you could get some cool shots. The problem is that you're basically swinging a piece of metal and glass around right in front of your much more expensive glass at the front of you lens. There's just so little room for error that it doesn't feel worth it.Is it a kind of cool toy for a kid to use to look at things? Sure. It's nice glass. It's just not a filter, and doesn't really have a good use in that space.
Just Watching
2025-03-21 11:07:50
I like that this 79mm Handheld Kaleidoscope Filter is made of glass (not plastic) and comes with a padded storage pouch and cleaning cloth.The handle is metal and there is a hole in it with standard tripod screw threads, greatly increasing the diversity of set-ups that are possible. These are great features!I took a couple of photos of an egg (I used a simple object to stay focused on the filter effects, rather than the subject), one without the filter and one with. In the multi-image photo (i.e., the one where the filter was used), you can see some colored fringing on the bottom edge of the top-middle image of the egg. (The actual egg is bottom-middle). This is due to the prism-like refraction produced by the filter facets. This may or may not be an issue, depending on your use case. More colorful scenes will tend to conceal this.This is a great way to inject a little 'wow' into your photos!
The Hoggatt Project
2025-03-01 11:55:06
I've attached some screenshots of what this split diopter looks like. At a +2 it is not too intense to where it makes it difficult to compose your shot. I was originally thinking of those shots in movies where they have what looks like deep focus with a character super close-up as well as one far back. This could do something similar if you stopped down a lot, but mostly I noticed it gives some cool reflections and prism distortion.These screenshots are taken from a log image that hasn't been graded or anything. I just wanted to show the effect I was getting without coloring it. For the price this is an easy recommendation and a tool I'd keep in the kit for spicing things up.
Gary
2025-02-15 14:19:35
Wasn't a fan. The glass comes with a cloth wipe, but collects oil/smears easily. You have to put the convex side out and put it RIGHT UP TO THE GLASS, otherwise you'll get magnified images and a very obvious border on your shot, unless you compose perfectly and the stars align where you have nothing on the overlapping line. Given that you have to put it right up to the lens, I wish I'd gotten the screw on version...there's no wiggle room to move it back and forth to adjust focus, so you'll have to plan that out to a T as well.The effect is bleh. There's a noticeable degradation of the image and the border is almost always obvious compared to other diopters.
ProductLuppy
2024-12-22 11:33:38
This handheld filter is a great tool. The build quality is solid, the filter itself is well made and a good material. I tested this out and it refracted light in an interesting way, giving way for some unique compositions. Great for portraiture and stylized photos. Would definitely recommend this as a tool to keep in the belt.
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