Tiffen Soft F/X 3 Glass Filter - is it good?

[buratino]

Hi, I want to try Tiffen Soft F/X 3 Glass Filter with my Optura Xi for people shots or 'more film look'. I had a chance to look at the filter itself and was not impressed with it's quality: it reflects a lot (apparently no coating), it's a little foggy and maybe not uniformly foggy... and I mean not those "engraved irregularities".... What do you think about the filter? any experience? is it just as it's supposed to be? I never used soft filters before... and my experience is only from photography, where I used to put only the high/highest quality filters on my lenses. For example, B+W multicoated 58mm 4xND filter which I have makes impression of quality.

Thank you!

[harrisonford]

Go to tiffen website from California, this is one of the best filter companies in the world, the hollywood movie industry uses mostly tiffen, the two others are Lee filter, this is a resin type plastic glass from England, B&W filters from Germany mostly for still photograhy, Tiffen will make you C39 resin or real glass but need a holder and some screw-in for various sizes. B&W in screw in only, Lee is only 100mm by 100mm holder flat panel, or 100mm x 150mm ND Grad type filters,

All are big money, so if you wish Tiffen $$$$$$ but very good products.

Tiffen will take custom orders for nearly anything, Cokin is considered sub grade, there are others, Hoya is considered very good, for a reasonable cost, if you can find what your looking for.