What is this filter for?

[blumoon]

I found this looking through my large assortment of filters.
Anyone know what it's for?
I'm going to try it outside tomorrow.

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[bmattock]

Looks like someone doctored a standard UV filter for reasons of their own. No clue what it might do. Give it a try.

 

[zuiko85]

Lomography could do this on $5 filters and sell them for $40 each.

 

[blumoon]

Looks like someone doctored a standard UV filter for reasons of their own. No clue what it might do. Give it a try.

I think you're right. I just scraped one of the bubbles off with my fingernail.

 

[muser53]

This will yield an image with a sharp in focus center and a soft focus periphery.
Reminds me of a crude Zeiss softar filter with an unfiltered center.

 

[raid]

Just use it and enjoy making soft focus images with sharp centers.

 

[Sumarongi]

I think you're right. I just scraped one of the bubbles off with my fingernail.

Looks like nail polish?

 

[lxmike]

looks like an adapter home lab experiment, some sort of soft focus the possible outcome

 

[lxmike]

Lomography could do this on $5 filters and sell them for $40 each.

sounds about right for the folks at Lomo😀

 

[leicapixie]

The idea of your filter, is based on the Zeiss Softar for Hasselblad.
The Softar mostly softened skin but not textures..
Try it as is! Portraits in backlight,that can show bokeh.
Enjoy!

 

[ellisson]

A customized (center area spared) softar filter. Interesting idea - the softar filters usually have have the markings uniformly distributed over the glass.

 

[sepiareverb]

I think you're right. I just scraped one of the bubbles off with my fingernail.

Now worth only $36. 😀

 

[drewbarb]

This will yield an image with a sharp in focus center and a soft focus periphery.
Reminds me of a crude Zeiss softar filter with an unfiltered center.

Yep. We used to put vaseline on a UV filter to make a soft-focus filter for portrait photography. One with little dots like this would do a nice job softening, plus the pink hue of the stuff applied would warm up the image just slightly. Worth keeping for when you want to do softened beauty shots but don't feel like messing with Photoshop too much. Especially in the days before digital manipulation, there used to be a lot of very creative DIY in photography.