ExpoDisc EXPOD77W 77mm ExpoDisc Portrait White Balance Filter

This is so easy to use! I got the 77m so I could put it over my small lenses and only needed one. I use it with my Nikon D800 and it makes my photos a bit too warm for me. I am going to try the neutral to see if I like that better.

The disk works great.The Seller described it: "like new". But the disk has many small scratches on it from being placed onto the smaller lenses. This was not described by the seller. In fact another seller had a "like new" disk for similar price, with a description of one scratch, so I chose this seller which simply did not describe the many scratches the disk has.Anyway, I gave 5 stars to reflect well on the product. The product still works good with the many small scratches.

I bought this to go with my Canon EOS 30D. Canon DSLRs seem to have trouble generally with white balance, and for me the Expodisc seems to clear up this trouble easily.There is only one glitch: You have to take the white balance test shot (with the Expodisc attached to the front of the camera lens) at the location where your subject will be, and with the camera lens pointed toward the light source. This might be a little more trouble than having the subject hold a grey card for you to shoot.Ken Rockwell (on his website) recommends the warm balance filter because of his own preferences, and I agree. A warm filter is better when shooting nature and people, in my opinion, since it brings up the reds a little bit. Expodisc did not over-do the warming either; a little bit is just fine!The Expodisc itself is quite well-built, and the spring-balls around the periphery let you snap it on the front of the lens (with or without additional filters attached) quickly without fiddling with threading, as you would do with any filter for example. This is very convenient!The optical surfaces are plastic, but I think performance will not suffer as the Expodisc ages and gets scratched and dinged up, since the pigments appear to permeate the entire filter plate. A diffuser in front also does not worry me, since the curved parts of it are inside, where they cannot accumulate dust.It comes with a neck-strap, making it easy to keep it available while you are shooting. Also, a beltpack case is provided, which can accomodate the Expodisc and another filter of your choice.I look forward to using this with my circular polarizer filter, because the Expodisc will fix the white balance shift introduced by the circular polarizer (sort of a "coldness"), while preserving the advantages such as cloud and sky visibility and reduction of glare.

I bought both the WB and the WB warm. They can produce unexpected results. Frankly I think a coffee filter works almost as well.

Love this product!The ExpoDisc is one of those overlooked profesional photo accessories that make a big difference in consistent high quality results and help streamline your work flow. Lots of UTube videos online to explain who simple the EDisc is to use. If you set up your manual exposure properly, the ExpoDisc turns your camera into an incident light meter and provides a perfect custom 18% gray image for that moment. Shoot your images and later in post edit sample your 18% gray image for correct white balance, then sync your images. done, move onto styling the best shots...

I have both the Warm and the Neutral Expodiscs and they are wonderful. My pictures have improved so much since I started using these a couple weeks ago. I now have the perfect white balance and color tones in all my photographs, both indoors and outdoors. They are well worth the price for me. I was deighted to learn these would work with my Nikon Coolpix P100. It's not just for DSLRs. If you can set a custom balance on your camera, you can uase this. Check your camera manual to find out. If accurate color is important to you, this is a wonderful product.

The tweak to warm the skin tones is very slight and so does not really affect the overall scene. However, skin tones come out more natural and warmer and does not look cold. I have been using the original Expodisc for perhaps, 5 years and even though the WB seems "correct" I prefer this Portrait version for daily use. If I should need to shoot to reproduce colors faithfully like in the case of shooting lipsticks for a catalog, then I will revert to the original Expodisc.

step1. if you dont have the regular version of this you most likely should go buy thatstep2. if you have that extra cash for this sure go ahead and buy this....it adds a little bit of warmth to your images but nothing major. its nice if you even remember to use it but most of the time i dont....unless the whole shoot is head shots then yea, but when im out traveling i use the regular version more.