Choosing Your Blackstone ND

Blackstone ND filters are available in 3, 6 and 10 stop densities.

• Blackstone ND 3 Stops is excellent for making aperture adjustments to give you that shallow depth of field look, or to make longer exposures during sunrise or sunset and in shaded areas.

• Blackstone ND 6 Stops is an excellent all around filter for landscape photographers. It's just dense enough to give a pleasant long exposure effect in just about any conditions.

• Blackstone ND 10 Stops is a true long exposure filter that allows the photographer to capture misty water, ethereal clouds, and to effectively blur-out people from crowded urban areas.

Blackstone ND Features

Technology

The technology used to create Blackstone ND is revolutionary, and features a new 22 layer double-sided coating process that is perfectly neutral with no color shift, has zero loss of resolution and detail, has the best anti-reflective qualities of any ND on the market, and is both hydrophobic and oleophobic (meaning it sheds both water and oil). Blackstone 13 & 16 stop long exposure filters feature a full 28 layer coating.

100% Neutral. 100% Resolution.

Blackstone ND filters are a technological leap-frog advancement over competing ND filters. Legacy dye-based ND filters suffer from serious color cast. The first generation of Vapor Deposition Coated (VDC) ND filters have largely corrected the color cast problem, but lack the ability to resolve high-megapixel camera without diffusing the image. Wine Country Camera’s exclusive Blackstone ND features the next generation of vapor deposition coating that is both perfectly neutral across all spectrums of light (including UV and IR) and resolves the image with zero diffusion effect.

Fire Polished Schott Ultra White Glass

If you’re going to build the best ND filter in the world, use the best glass in the world. Period. Schott’s Ultra White optical glass has a crystal-like appearance and extremely high transmittance across the visible light spectrum. Schott Ultra White glass features an extremely flat, fire polished surface to eliminate any visible distortions caused by surface imperfections.

150+ Megapixel

60 megapixel sensors are common on 35mm cameras, while medium format cameras offer 150 megapixels. Most filters simply cannot resolve light at that resolution. The result is blurring of the image. Blackstone ND filters are extensively tested on high megapixel Phase One cameras to ensure that they resolve with zero loss of resolution.

Perfectly Neutral

For anyone who has used a different brand's 10 "stopper" the above images should be astonishing. Blackstone ND filters are so color neutral and so resolving that - aside from the exposure duration - the images with and without filters are virtually indistinguishable.

Zero Loss of Resolution

The above images are 100% crops taken from an 80 megapixel Phase One IQ180 file. One image was 1/20th of a second with no filter. The other image was 60 seconds exposure with a Blackstone ND 10 Stop filter. Blackstone's NextGen Vapor Deposition Coating is so advanced that there is zero loss of resolution, zero color shift, and zero surface distortions. In fact, the two images are so close in terms of image quality, we're not going to tell you which one is which.

WCC Quality

Our mission is clear. We’re dedicated to providing the most innovative products available for photographers. We don’t skimp on quality and only use the finest materials. Anything less is unacceptable.