My wife and I have a YouTube channel, Well Travelled Life, and we produce weekly videos focused on our traveling, music and life style products. I have been experiementing with different filters for my video shots, and I've found K&F's filters to be affordable, quality options. This particular filter is a "black mist" type filter and it's featured here in high strength. Black mist style filters are typically rated at ⅛, ¼ and ½ strength. Black mist filters bring in two noticeable effects on your recorded image. First they tend to blow out or cause bloom to highlights, particularly point source elements, like car lights, street lights or the sun filtering through tree branches. They also tend to reduce contrast in video and photographs, which makes sense since the filter contains small elements that diffuse the light somewhat--with ⅛ filters having the least effect and ½ the greatest amount. If you're just experimenting with black mist filters, I suggest starting with a ⅛ strength filter to explore how you might use the effect in your videos and photographs. This ½ strength filter will dramatically reduce contrast and blowout highlights in your videos & photographs, which may or may not work for you. You can always add some contrast back in post. The price is attractive and makes it easy to explore if this technique works for you. Recommended.